“Any country’s greatest asset is the energy, ideas and vision of its young people. As young people build their own futures, they’ll build India’s future. Investing in them is the best investment India can make.” ...UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore In 2018, NITI Aayog organised National Youth Consultations in India, hearing from more than 250 young people from six states, …
By Autar Nehru It may sound familiar to the Google story straight out of the ‘Silicon valley’, but the difference here is that the crop of nano unicorns being germinated in Odisha will have many stories of successes as well as failures and expectedly a cascading effect. Teens and young adults in near future will have a set of novice …
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 …
