ON DECEMBER 3, INDIA ALONG WITH REST OF THE world celebrated yet another International Day for people with disabilities and this provides an opportunity to focus on country’s ‘inclusive education’ effort. According to 2011 census, India has close to 2.68 crore such people and about 20-42 lakh children in 0-6 age group alone. And constitutional guarantee of equality and inclusion …
On December 21, the 5200th birth anniversary of Bhavad Gita, Delhi-based motivational speaker Vivek Bindra launched a DVD on management principles form Bhagvat Gita. Terming Lord Krishna, the first ever motivational speaker on earth, Bindra said Bhagvad Gita is the mother of all management principles and can be applied in almost every situation in modern world. According to him the …
On December 2, 2015, Delhi Govt ploughed through the 42-year old ‘tough’ and historic Delhi Education Act of 1973 and passed two amendment bills to align the school education law with ‘ground realities.’ The day didn’t stop there. AAP government dared the wisdom of ‘no detention policy’ of the RTE Act and through a third bill took a lead to …
Skill sector is the toughest and complicated areas that needs clear understanding for moving forward Centum Learning (esb 2006), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises, provides end-to-end corporate training programmes and skill development solutions. Its subsidiary Centum WorkSkills is partnering NSDC for skilling 12 million youth across the country. The company is also implementing PMKVY scheme for MoS Gen …
About eight schools from different parts of world were in Delhi for the annual meeting of the Global Schools’ Alliance (esb 2012) last month (October 13-16). Gurgaon-based Vega Schools, an upcoming CBSE-affiliated K-12 school to be inaugurated in January 2016 played host to the international event. Sandy Hooda, co-founder of Vega schools spoke with Autar Nehru about the meet and …
After, what it called collaborative, multi-stakeholder and multi-pronged consultation process held over last eight months for formulating the New Education Policy, the union ministry of Human Resources Development after facing flak and criticism from nearly all quarters, seasoned experts and educationist over the way it rolled out the process, has now constituted a Drafting Committee for framing the New Education …
