The much relied upon school data collected by District Information System for Education (DISE) of NUEPA and put to use for policy, planning and information may after all not be very true according to a study done by Centre for Policy Research study. The study while analyzing monitoring systems in 166 schools spread over five states of Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, …
According to a statement issued soon after the first meeting of the reconstituted CABE (Central Advisory Board of Education, the apex advisory panel on education in India) committee that took place on August 19, in New Delhi, there is a broad census among states to do away with the ‘No detention Policy’ and bring back assessment (examination). Barring Karnataka, almost …
DPS or Delhi Public School, India’s premier K-12 school brand is yet again in news. The controversy surrounding the franchise-way of expansion that began around 2006 refuses to die down. Ever since the days of Narendera Kumar, one of the well-known publishers who owned M/s Har Anand Publications, as president of Delhi Public School Society (the managing organization of 11 …
Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA) developed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development that aims to inculcate a spirit of inquiry, creativity and love for Science and Mathematics in school children was lauched in New Delhi by the former President, Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam on….. Under Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan, government schools will be mentored by Institutes like IITs/ IIMs/ IISERs and …
ON THE OCCASION OF THE FIRST ever World Youth Skills Day on 15th July 2015, when the country kickstarted Skill India campaing, 150 Skill Vans were flagged off to create awareness among masses about the Government’s initiatives and policies of the skill development. These vans, which were flagged off by MSDE minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy will drive through Delhi and …
Prof. Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe is the new AICTE chairman: Prof. Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati has taken over the charge as the Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Prof. Sahasrabudhe, an alumnus of BVB College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli is a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He …
