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 …
295 degrees were awarded in a hi tech well-attended show made special by inspiring convocation addresses by Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India and Dr Raj Reddy, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Shiv Nadar also sat through the whole event lasting over 3 hours In words of Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Shiv …
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 …
