On July 5, the affable bearded Prakash Javadekar, was promoted to the cabinet rank and handedover the ministry of HRD. His appointment was by and large welcomed by all and he did well to acknowledge the national importance of education above politics. Comparatively degree-wise better qualified than his predecessor, Smriti Irani, who moved to textiles, Javadekar brings to the table …
India’s leading E–learning protagonist Prof MM Pant, who is also a disruptive education technology enthusiast, recently did a week-long course on MOOCs learning. The course taken by 145 educationists, educational professionals and scholars including from Sweden, UK, Bangladesh was perhaps first of its kind learning course using Whatsapp in India. The best outcome of this ‘disruptive’ and very useful course …
New research from the University of Birmingham has found that a number of policies used by childcare providers for conjunctivitis are contrary to national guidance, and lead to unnecessary prescription of antibiotics and exclusion of children from nurseries. Though guidance states that children with acute infective conjunctivitis do not need to be excluded or necessarily treated with antibiotics, 86.7% of …
The union ministry of HRD has uploaded the draft of policy prepared by the committee headed by TSR Subramanian after the report was leaked to the media. Read the inputs by clicking the following link http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/Inputs_Draft_NEP_2016.pd Views and suggestions can be submitted until August 16, 2016 by email at nep.edu@gov.in
On June 22, the union ministry of human resource development (HRD) announced that UGC has brought in new set of regulations to supersede the ‘Promotion and Maintenance of Standards of Academic Collaborations between Indian and Foreign Educational Institutes Regulations 2012’, the only rudimentary legal framework in the country that governs working of Foreign Educational Institutions (FEIs) in India. Under the …
A Multi-Skill Development Centre was inaugurated on June 24 at Jharsuguda, Odisha under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), a GOI scheme that focuses on addressing the occupational aspirations of rural youth and enhancing their skills for wage employment. Delhi-based skills training company, Centum Learning which is partnering the union ministry of Rural Development for this project, will …
