New research from the University of Birmingham has found that a number of policies used by childcare providers for conjunctivitis are contrary to national guidance, and lead to unnecessary prescription of antibiotics and exclusion of children from nurseries. Though guidance states that children with acute infective conjunctivitis do not need to be excluded or necessarily treated with antibiotics, 86.7% of …

The union ministry of HRD has uploaded the draft of policy prepared by the committee headed by TSR Subramanian after the report was leaked to the media. Read the inputs by clicking the following link  http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/Inputs_Draft_NEP_2016.pd Views and suggestions can be submitted until August 16, 2016 by email at nep.edu@gov.in

On June 22, the union ministry of human resource development (HRD) announced that UGC has brought in new set of regulations to supersede the ‘Promotion and Maintenance of Standards of Academic Collaborations between Indian and Foreign Educational Institutes Regulations 2012’, the only rudimentary legal framework in the country that governs working of Foreign Educational Institutions (FEIs) in India. Under the …

A Multi-Skill Development Centre was inaugurated on June 24 at Jharsuguda, Odisha under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), a GOI scheme that focuses on addressing the occupational aspirations of rural youth and enhancing their skills for wage employment. Delhi-based skills training company, Centum Learning which is partnering the union ministry of Rural Development for this project, will …

THIRTY INNOVATION-led start-ups were recognized and felicitated on June 3 under the 10th year of the DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme, which provides the much needed handholding and business development support to upcoming start-ups. The innovation awards were given away by Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog. This program started as a unique public private partnership initiated in …

On June 1, one more suicide took place in Kota, sixth this year. While the issue of coaching menace and suicides in Kota for the past two months have entered prime time TV debates and received lot of press, it is ironical that just a day after JEE Advanced results were announced, ‘the most successful’ coaching institute advertised full pages …