In April 2016, India will publish its first-ever national rankings of institutions of higher education after the ministry of human resources development announced the national institutional ranking frameworks for engineering & management streams. In a related development, which may raise interest level in rankings further, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, London will publish BRICS university rankings, which would be …

 Study finds an overwhelming trend of high proportionate alarming presence of depression, anxiety, self-harm & suicide, drug abuse and tobacco consumption, sleep disorders, lack of self-confidence, and difficulty in handling inter-personal relations among college students. October 10 was the World Mental Health Day and we reproduce some of the findings  A SURVEY ON “EMOTIONAL health and Psychological well-being” conducted by …

By Navin Bhatia ‘On September 17, all the media were abuzz with the peon recruitment news from Uttar Pradesh. For 368 posts of peons advertised, 23 Lakh applicants had applied of which 2.2 Lakh were B.Tech and 255 Ph.Ds! Just imagine the cost of skilling 2.2 Lakh B. Tech students @ Rs 12 Lakh for the four year course, which …

A sampler Mobile classrooms in ‘discarded ‘shipping containers an innovation by Safeducate, the education and training arm of logistic company Safexpress, was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Modi in the accompanying exhibition of a mega event convened to announce launch of Skill India imitative of the Government on World Skills Day (July 16) . The model has since remained in …

STIR (Schools and Teachers Innovating for Results) one of the fast-growing international NGOs, started its operations in India in 2012. STIR’s aim is to address the learning crisis in the developing world by empowering teachers to be changemakers. In 2013, it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Uttar Pradesh’s SCERT. In an email interview Sandeep Mishra, Government Program Director, …

Going by the public utterances of the MHRD, India will have a new national policy on education by the end of this year. Though there is hardly any clue as to how the ongoing consultations at ‘various levels’ are being processed and ultimately how the new policy will be put to ‘vote’ for approval, there is still time left to …