Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), an initiative started by State University New York (SUNY) in 2010, has really gone global with international partners and participating institutions in an approach to fostering cross-cultural student competence through development of multicultural learning environments that link university or college classes in different countries.  In September this year, St Mira’s College Pune and LaGuardia Community …

The University of Birmingham will host a prestigious academic Chair to promote research into the life and philosophy of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the revered first Sikh Guru. Union Minister, Hardeep Singh Puri announced this project during the University of Birmingham India Institute’s Annual Guest Lecture, when he spoke early in November 4 on ‘The contemporary relevance of Sri …

Big Little Book Awards instituted by Parag (a Tata Trusts initiative) to recognize and honour significant contribution of authors and illustrators to children’s literature in Indian language(s) for this year go to noted Hindi Children author Prabhat and illustrator Priya Kuriyan. The awards will be given during the presentation ceremony at the Tata Literature Live at the Mumbai Litfest 2019 on the 17th of November in …

On the second day of the two-day New India Education Summit (NIES) organized by ScooNews  in Chandigarh on Nov12-13, V.P. Singh Badnore, Governor of Punjab and Administrator for the Union Territory of Chandigarh, delivered the keynote address focused on the essentials of early childhood education which lays the foundation for the future of children. He said, “It is heartening to …

 GENEO, an NCERT based digital learning platform of Schoolnet India Limited, has announced one-year free licenses to all the schools in the country with full access to its content in three subjects- Science, Maths and English, for teachers of classes from 6 to 10. The registration link (https://www.geneo.in/) will be made available from Children’s Day, November 14, for a month. …

The second edition of IFT has already set in with registration closing on Nov 20. Meant to be a team event for students in the age group of 13-17, the competition, which will focus on innovative solutions to  ‘water crisis’, will move from short listing of teams to zonal and national rounds, and the Top 3 ideas will get a …