The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ presenting the awards, at inauguration of the International Conference on Journey of Teacher Education: Local to Global, in New Delhi on August 17, 2019. The Secretary (Department of School & Literacy), Smt. Rina Ray and other dignitaries are also seen. The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) as a …

New office building Finally, some welcome action on much neglected teacher training agenda in the country appears to be in sight as the NCTE (National Council for Teacher Education) as the national regulator for teacher education and training in India moves to a new address and seeks to address some of the vexed issues that have been the source of …

Somaiya Vidyavihar launched India’s first Industry- Academia joint course in M.Sc. Polymer Science.  A unique course, the only one in India, has been developed jointly by prominent polymer Industrial and academics/researchers from national labs. The research-oriented course offers Polymer Chemistry, Polymer Physics and Polymer Engineering specialization.  Polymer Science, an interdisciplinary area, comprising of chemical, physical, engineering, processing, and theoretical aspects, is …

The Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship Development Society of IIT Roorkee celebrated ‘Entrepreneurs Day’ by showcasing finalists of its accelerator program in New Delhi on August 7 and was a culmination to the accelerator program ran by TIDES Business Incubator at IIT Roorkee for a period of 16 weeks. TIDES Accelerator Program (TAP) is collaborative initiative of Department of Science & …

IIM Udaipur, one of the highly ranked among newly IIMs established in 2011 and accredited from the AACSB has  made its 15-month PGPX diploma into a 12-month full-time residential MBA in Global Supply Chain Management. The program designed specifically for candidates with work experience of 3 years and above, comes with two options. The first option offers one entire semester …

The Indian team for WorldSkills International Competition 2019 scheduled to take place in Kazan, Russia from 22nd to 27th August 2019,  will leave for the Russian city this weekend and will participate in 44 skills including mobile robotics, prototype modelling, hairdressing, baking, confectionary & patisserie, welding, brick laying, car painting, floristry among others.  Referred to as the ‘Olympics for Skills’, the largest …