India’s central secondary education board, the central board of secondary education (CBSE) with over 17,500 affiliated schools in country and abroad has finally taken a call on the issue of weighty school bags being ‘shouldered’ by students to schools and back home. In an advisory through a circular dated September 12th, the CBSE has suggested measures to lessen the burden …
The Indian arm of Japanese MNC Konica Minolta engaged in manufacture of advanced imaging and networking technologies products, early this year in February ventured into providing ERP solution to education sector in India and launched an ERP solution platform by the name of Educo ERP. Curriculum magazine spoke with Yuji Nakata, Managing Director Konica Minolta India to know more about …
Centum Learning, one of India’s leading skill development and corporate training company and an NSDC partner on October 6 forayed into the hill state of Uttarakhand and opened a Multi-Skill Development Centre at Sitarganj, in Udham Singh Nagar district in partnership with Uttarakhand Skill Development Mission (UKSDM). The centre was formally inaugurated by A. A Hashmi, Auditor –UKSDM and Principal, …
The message at the annual (5th) conference & exposition of the Indian chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM, esb 1948), held on September 29-30 in New Delhi and attended by over 1000 HR professionals and others, was clear that the need for organizations is to be bold in their HR practices. This year’s conference was based on …
About half of students not engaged in learning in classrooms, need for a framework for technology integration into traditional ways of teaching/learning The fourth annual edition of Voice of Teachers Survey by the Indian subsidiary of textbook/digital publisher & education solution provider, Pearson, springs no surprises. Indicating similarity with a global trend, the survey based on teacher opinions reveals teachers …
National Bal Bhavan (NBB), an autonomous body under the union ministry of HRD, has prepared a certificate program of six-month duration on inclusive education of children with special needs for teachers of art and culture in association with Coimbatore-based Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University’s Faculty of Disability Mangement and Special Education (FDMSE), the only higher education institution in the country to …
