In a focused effort to enhance skilling and employability for neurodivergent youth, Nasscom Foundation, in collaboration with MathCo, a company in Enterprise AI and Analytics has launched Data Annotation Skill Development Program for Neurodivergent Youth. The initiative aims to skill neurodivergent individuals with specialised, job-specific training in data annotation which is a highly sought-after skill in the fast-growing field of Artificial …

TalentNomics India, in partnership with KAS-Japan, on Nov 7 organized a roundtable discussion centered on “Education for Gender Equity” in New Delhi. The day-long event brought together a diverse group of stakeholders from the education, gender, and policy sectors, focusing on identifying key changes needed in our education system to promote gender equitable mindset and skill set in students in …

Auroville, a town situated between Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry on a 20 sq km area will complete 50 years of its existence on February 28, 2018. The occasion presents an opportunity to look at the birth and vision of Auroville and its relevance for India and the world especially in contemporary ‘volatile’ times. Auroville recently (in last week of November) …

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 …

Noida’s Billabong High International School, probably the first school in Delhi NCR to provide for main streaming of differently-abled children, is an inspiring role model for schools to replicate India has over 20 lakh children with various disabilities in the 0-6 age group alone and various laws guarantee such children among other entitlements, access to schooling. The idea is to …