The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)  a deemed university, established in 1936 as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work is today India’s premier institution in social sciences with campuses in  . Mumbai, Tuljapur, Hyderabad and Guwahati.  Prof Lakshmi Lingam, Deputy Director of the Hyderabad campus , replied to a set of questions from Curriculum Magazine Briefly, …

Round Square Conference at Pathways World School, Aravali The Fourth Senior Students Round Square Conference (spread over four days) at Pathways World School Aravali,  which provided an inspirational platform to the collective talents of more than 120 children from 15 participating schools, kicked off with pomp and joy on February 12th, 2015. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Translate-Transform-Transfer’. …

Dr. Pawan Whig, Dean, RIET, Jaipur NANOTECHNOLOGY is the upcoming field which interests many people. It is the science of the future which includes innovations that can change the world.  It is the engineering of working systems at the molecular level. From the clothes and sunglasses we wear to computer hard drives and even cleaning products, nanotechnology  often inspired by …

Book Reading session in Dehradun World Integrity Center (WIC)  India recently  held a book reading and interaction session for teachers and principals by Prof. Debashis Chatterjee author & leadership speaker on his recently launched book ‘Can you teach a Zebra some Algebra’ at Dehradun.  The activity based session was enjoyed by all and focused on new age teaching techniques. Dr. …

Global relevance & competitiveness remain the key challenge as India will have 70 million students, the highest number ever in history of mankind by 2030 According to Greg Clark, British Minister of State for Universities, Science and Cities, soon one in four students globally will be an Indian and so world can’t ignore India. Conversely, India would also greatly depend …

The Prime Minister, Narendera Modi leaves no opportunity or platform without talking about his pet ‘skilled India’ slogan and when read with his equally catchy ‘Make in India’ catchphrase, an impression has gone out that Skills education has finally arrived to catch the imagination of youth. However, there is much ground to be covered before skills education becomes bankable in …