The latest edition of Smart India Hackathon (SIH) —a nationwide initiative conducted every year since 2017 in two formats i.e. SIH Software and SIH Hardware that provides students a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcates a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem solving, was kick started …
The Progressive Educators Platform (PEP) supported by UNESCO, Oxford University Press and Airmeet in an effort to recognize the effort of teachers during Covid-19 conferred awards on 11 teachers for their invaluable service and contribution to keep the learning process going during the Covid-19 pandemic. These awards were a celebration of their commitment and undying spirit. The online ceremony that …
Evolution does not occur linearly – it occurs in spurts, some dramatically and some quietly. Schools have to open sooner than later and getting back to earlier normal will pass through a transition period as students may have acquired different routines during long period of ‘study from home’. Shefali Tewary, Head of School at Elpro International School, a Cambridge International …
JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur in collaboration with All India Management Association (AIMA), on July 31 unveiled the first-ever virtual lab for management students for business stimulation exercises. It is a first such kind of lab in Rajasthan. BizLab will expose students to real economic, environmental and business issues related to finance, operations, marketing and other business functions. The digital …
By Autar Nehru In nutshell nothing much will change for school education in short or medium term after this hype around NEP 2020 subsides. Take an average good school and you’ll find much of what this policy says starting from medium of instruction to foreign languages, clubs (now circles), project-based learning etc, is already in practice there. You just need …
By Kadambari Rana Given the backdrop of our country’s demographics, which suffers from population explosion, large scale poverty and dismal accessibility to modes of communication, online education for school going children is ‘unworkable’. Virtual classroom is the new normal. Efforts of several schools and teachers who are working round the clock to provide some semblance of continuation of education to …
