The Ministry of Youth Affair and Sports, having responded to Prime Minister’s call for a ‘Fit India Movement’ has launched Fit India School Rating for schools to integrate Fitness as an essential part of School Education. The level of Fit India School Rating will depend on how much importance the school gives for inculcating Fitness among its students and teachers …
From January 1st 2020, Akshaya Patra Foundation, a nonprofit based in Bengaluru, will begin new kitchen operations in three areas of Delhi—Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area, Jahangir Puri and Samaypur Badli—for feeding midday meal to 64,179 children across 134 schools in the national capital through these three kitchens. While Mohan Cooperative kitchen will feed 21,133 children, Jahangir Puri kitchen funded by Franklin Templeton Investments …
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, which was passed on December 11 in the Parliament to provide citizenship to persecuted minorities from neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, has evoked strong and large-scale protests as the enactment is seen an ‘assault’ on the basic preamble of the constitution and right to equality under Article 14. With students taking the lead in these …
The one great divide in well meaning and intelligent people in our society is about defining the fundamental purpose of education right from school to university. While most people have the generic view that education is knowledge assimilation and creation and therefore an intrinsic force which illuminates mind and human spirit with greater understanding and ideation for progressive civilizational values …
Latest update: Pariksha Pe Charcha 2020 rescheduled to 20th January, 2020 The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s interaction programme ParikshaPeCharcha 2020 with a cross section of students and teachers from India and abroad to beat exam stresshas been rescheduled to 20th January, 2020 at 11 a.m, on account of Pongal, Makar Sankranti, Lohri, Onam and other festivals across the country. The programme was earlier scheduled for 16th …
Calls for a holistic digital transformation of schools for a future ready workforce on the side-lines of Microsoft Education Days Committed to empowering students with future-ready skills, Microsoft rolled out its K12 Education Transformation Framework more widely to schools across India at the second edition of the Microsoft Education Days in Gurgaon. Microsoft Education Days 2019 brought together more than 700 school leaders, educators, …
