India’s central secondary education board, the central board of secondary education (CBSE) with over 17,500 affiliated schools in country and abroad has finally taken a call on the issue of weighty school bags being ‘shouldered’ by students to schools and back home. In an advisory through a circular dated September 12th, the CBSE has suggested measures to lessen the burden …
About half of students not engaged in learning in classrooms, need for a framework for technology integration into traditional ways of teaching/learning The fourth annual edition of Voice of Teachers Survey by the Indian subsidiary of textbook/digital publisher & education solution provider, Pearson, springs no surprises. Indicating similarity with a global trend, the survey based on teacher opinions reveals teachers …
National Bal Bhavan (NBB), an autonomous body under the union ministry of HRD, has prepared a certificate program of six-month duration on inclusive education of children with special needs for teachers of art and culture in association with Coimbatore-based Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University’s Faculty of Disability Mangement and Special Education (FDMSE), the only higher education institution in the country to …
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 …
The phase two of NEET for those who couldn’t sit in NEET-1 is scheduled on July 24. NEET-1 was held on May 1. The combined result would be declared on August 17 so that the admission process can be completed by September 30. The window for online application would be open between May 21 and June 20. After recalling its …
NIIT Ltd, a skills and talent development Indian MNC having over 300 training delivery centres across India, has after four years of persuasion and negotiations, finally succeeded in inking an alliance with globally acclaimed edX, the MOOCs education platform that offers online courses from world’s top 100 institutions free of cost across the globe. In a first, edX course programs …
