Mirroring a countrywide trend of shutting down schools, North Delhi (Municipal) Corporation finalized a proposal to merge 20 of its schools and create 10 out of this in December 2018. The three municipal corporations which together have 1750 primary schools with an aggregate of over 7.76 lakh students, had reliably identified 200 low enrolment schools for closure by November 2018. …
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) after a gap of six years, in October issued revised new affiliation bye-laws for its affiliated and aspirant schools in the hope that the cumbersome process before and after affiliation becomes affable. The revision of these affiliation bye laws (first notified in 1988 and revisited in 2012) had been ordered by the union …
SIES (Nerul) College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Navi Mumbai is all charged with excitement over the upcoming annual inter-collegiate festival SIESONS to be held on 18th and 19th of January 2019 after the festival’s traditional start ceremony took place here on Dec 27. The Theme for this year is ‘Era of discoveries’ was released on the occasion. As has been …
St. George’s University based in Grenada Island (Caribbean) and set up in 1976 is a big name in medical education in the United States—as well as Grenada, Botswana, Trinidad and Tobago, and other countries around the world. Like in the past 40 years, in 2018, SGU students and graduates obtained a record number of residency placements. As a reputed medical …
It is important to prioritize between foundational structure and refurbishing of an edifice, societal, governmental or economic. In the past four years and nine months, the current NDA government at the centre has made the latter choice, that is cosmetic interventions in school education to keep hopes of 25 crore children alive, and by that extension future human capital of …
At least three combinations of civil society groups have come together to impact the next year’s Parliamentary elections with education issues. Right to Education Forum, a network of 10,000 activists and groups from more than 20 states, Campaign Against Child Labor (CACL) and Alliance for the Right to Early Education Development have joined hands to launch a national campaign to …
