National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research (NITTTR), Kolkata, is organizing `National Innovation Talent Contest for Polytechnics’ in three major conventional disciplines– Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. The key objective is to identify the levels of skill and innovation potentials of the students, teachers, and technical staff members of polytechnics and to develop cost effective technological support …

An amazing ‘Manufactured’ Pedagogy at a small school in Delhi holds hope for a model that can qualitatively transform school education en masse says Autar Nehru THE TRAVEL to Muni International School from its nearest Metro station of Dwarka to Mohan Garden area in Delhi is an ordeal of negotiating unruly, cramming and diverse traffic along with people of all …

An Indian delegation of 35 senior and middle-level academic and non-academic staff from 13 institutions besides ministry of HRD officials visited UK a couple of weeks back to learn more about how UK universities operate, and with the hope of exploring potential partnerships in the future. The visitors were in the UK as part of a leadership and management training …

By Dr Deependra Kumar Jha, Pro Vice chancellor, G.D. Goenka University, Gurgaon, Entrepreneurship creates new jobs and businesses and should be a part of any institute’s fabric but not many will actively support it for obvious reasons. There is an inherent risk involved so is cost. Expertise and enabling support ecosystem is another factor. But then, there are exceptions. Upcoming …

In several education institutions across India, Campus life is getting agitated. While enough has been said about JNU and Hyderabad Central University, NIT Srinagar is the latest to hit the headlines. That a petty incident could snowball into such a big controversy isn’t unexpected if it is Kashmir. Ever since time the legendary Kashmiri leader, Sheikh Mohd Abdullah, changed his …

Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 or popularly RTE Act entered into its 7th year of enactment on April 1. However, the historic Act largely continues to remain unimplemented and ‘forgotten’  ON 31 MARCH 2016, India marked six years of the coming into force of the Right to Education. And those closely monitoring its progress and journey …