Tutoring or mentorship is a fact of life for almost every student in India. As a cottage industry, neighbourhood tuition centres, tutors or home tutors, has existed for decades now. With exponential technologies disrupting every walk of life, tutoring is also transforming and going online. Minal Anand, born and brought up in Delhi went to Boston University, USA for her …

PRATYeK, a children rights advocacy NGO based in Delhi, also the convening organisation for the NINEISMINE campaign on Feb 3, held its 3rd annual National Inclusive Children’s Parliament where 75 children from 29 states and UT’s from the age of 11 and above, speaking more than 23 different languages, came under one roof to be part of this event and …

The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman along with the Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Anurag Singh Thakur arrives at Parliament House to present the General Budget 2020-21, in New Delhi on February 01, 2020. 150 Higher Educational Institutions to start apprenticeship embedded degree/diploma courses by March, 2021; Special bridge courses for …

Co-create program, a three-month long competition in  collaboration with Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Madras by Debayan Saha, inventor of Minus2point5 device and co-founder of PerSapien (a solutions start-up for mitigation of threats to environment), focused on three broad environmental categories—Air pollution and climate change, Water conservation and waste management and participants were asked for ideas contributing towards enhancing the lives …

India’s 20,500 private teacher education/training colleges constituting 93% of the total school teachers training capacity available in the country are up in arms as announcement of the new National Policy on Education is round the corner. Their apprehension is that if recommendations contained in the draft NEP are in reality reflected in the new policy, it will spell a death …

US-based non-profit, 1M1B (1 Million for 1 Billion) Foundation has announced that it will set up AI Youth Labs in 50 schools across India  this year, of which 10 will be Mobile Labs for rural and underserved schools in Karnataka, AP, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand, giving access to over 40-50 schools. The launch was announced in the presence of Hawa Diallo, …