Interview: Ruchir Arora, Co-founder & CEO CollegeDekho.com CollegeDekho.com is technology platform providing end-to-end admission solutions to students other offerings to colleges. It began as a start-up in 2015 and  today, it has emerged as one of popular student destination for information and counseling services. Curriculum magazine spoke with  Ruchir Arora, Co-founder & CEO.: CollegeDekho.com is now more than four years old, …

At a workshop organized by the Indian School of Public Policy (ISPP) recently in New Delhi, Dhiraj Nayyar, Chief Economist, Vedanta Resources, emphasized on the need for public policy making to be based on evidence. He discussed a number of issues, including the changing shares of growth coming from agriculture, service and manufacturing sector, and reminded us about how the …

The talk and seeding of a New Education Policy (NEP) took birth with the release of BJP election manifesto in 2014. The mammoth exercise that has gone into it thus far began a year after. In January 2015, BJP-led NDA government honored this promise and announced NEP formulation. It invigorated the discussion and debate over shortcomings in education systems and …

The Indian education sector serves more than 315 million students, almost equivalent to the population of USA. Education holds the key to skilling, employability, research and shaping professional human capital, which in turn contributes to national economic and social development and therefore is the key driver of jobs and economic development. With Modi Government 2.0 beginning its innings, Curriculum magazine …

Raft attention to higher education agenda If much doesn’t change in the draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019, then university grants commission (UGC) will become Higher Education Grants Council and the regulator function will be vested into a new body to be called as National Higher Education Regulatory Authority. The draft also recommends doubling of government expenditure on public education …

The draft NEP while being ambitious on fixing the chaos in school education order, may well lead to more sharpening of dividing lines The massive 484-page document is result of a mammoth hard work of about five years that began in January 2015 with the announcement of formulation of a new national policy on education and moved with multilevel wider …