The draft NEP while being ambitious on fixing the chaos in school education order, may well lead to more sharpening of dividing lines The massive 484-page document is result of a mammoth hard work of about five years that began in January 2015 with the announcement of formulation of a new national policy on education and moved with multilevel wider …
The New National Policy on Education (NEP 2019) announcement is now it appears only a few weeks away. On the very first day, after the new union HRD minister, Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, took over, the draft NEP, which was completed in December 2018, was released. Now public suggestions and comments on the draft have been invited. Last date is …
The fourth edition of the NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework) (NIRF) Rankings by the union Ministry for Human Resources Development was released on April 8 under a preset scheduled publishing calendar . IIT-Madras has come on the top in the overall NIRF Rankings 2019 and is followed by IISc and IIT-Delhi in second and third position respectively. In university rankings …
The current number of Atal Tinkering Lab (ATL) equipped schools that stands around 9000 across the country, will cross 10,000 mark by end of this year. Giving this information at the LMSAI- Harvard University Annual India Symposium on ‘Science & Society’ partnered by Niti Ayog in Delhi April 4, R Ramanan, mission director at the Atal Innovation Mission under Niti …
This year (2019) March, some 11 lakh unqualified teachers appointed prior to 2015 who are engaged in teaching work in schools as para teachers across the length and breadth of country have to become professionally qualified under the amended provisions of sub-section (1) of section 23 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. It was expected …
The apex child rights body, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) based in New Delhi will be launching a portal called ‘MONITOR’ for online reporting of the out of school children under an inter legislative convergence reporting initiative. Various agencies obliged under child laws will have to provide data of children to NCPCR for corroboration and monitoring. According …
