That there is a need for India to focus on improving infrastructure and quality in higher education as its demand is huge not only within the country but also outside, may come good for this crucial segment of education. An estimated 2.30 lakh students from India go for studying abroad annually and involves a commerce of about $ 17 billion, …
The ‘established’ and taken for granted usage of saying ‘into’ for multiply (X) in Mathematical expressions in Indian English is wrong. Elsewhere it would mean just the opposite, that’s DIVIDE. Simon Lind, International Teacher Trainer & Professional Development Manager, Cambridge University Press, International Education conducted a series of one-day workshops for CIE-affiliated school teachers in Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Bangalore …
For students aspiring to study in the UK, British Council will host a ‘Study UK: Discover You’ Exhibition on November 19, 2016 (Saturday) at British Council, Delhi. The day-long event is bringing together 56 UK institutions, and will present aspirants with an opportunity to talk to university representatives on a one-on-one basis and get their queries answered on course choices, …
No-detention Policy’ may be diluted and capped at class V instead of class VIII at present Deadline for Training of untrained teachers may get five year extension till 2020 Notwithstanding evidence on good side of ‘no detention policy’ and counsel from National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT), the union ministry of human resources development is keen to amend …
THE ‘DEFINITION’ of a university as told by India’s first Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru while addressing the graduates of Allahabad University in 1947 will remain timeless and relevant whenever one thinks hard about an ideal university. He had said, “A University stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search of truth. …
Ever since the new chairman R K Chaturvedi took over office on July 26, CBSE or the central board of secondary education, the pan India secondary education board with over 17,500 affiliated schools, has suddenly come to ‘regulatory’ life. One after another, CBSE has started to revisit regulatory issues in the last couple of months. It began by issuing an …
