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New Trend: ‘Whatsapp’ Learning

India’s leading E–learning protagonist Prof MM Pant, who is also a disruptive education technology enthusiast, recently did a week-long course on MOOCs learning. The course taken by 145 educationists, educational professionals and scholars including from Sweden, UK, Bangladesh was perhaps first of its kind learning course using Whatsapp in India. The best outcome of this ‘disruptive’ and very useful course …

New Education Policy Inputs Draft made public

The union ministry of HRD has uploaded the draft of policy prepared by the committee headed by TSR Subramanian after the report was leaked to the media. Read the inputs by clicking the following link  http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/Inputs_Draft_NEP_2016.pd Views and suggestions can be submitted until August 16, 2016 by email at nep.edu@gov.in

Academic Collaboration with FEIs eased

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 …

Chemistry is in every one, & in everything that we do: Dr. A. Ajayaghosh, Director, NIIST

If relationships are strong, then it is considered that the chemistry between two people is working.  Chemistry is in everything that we do.  It is in each one of us. There is no Life Science without Chemistry. Everybody is made of chemicals. Chemical reactions occur when we breathe, eat, sleep. It is in the food we eat, clothes we wear, …

Central Board for Skills Certification to be set up by September 2016

Government has an ambitious plan to scale up skill training in the country and has decided to cover at least 1.5 crore people during 2016-2017. A   Central Board for Skills Certification will be set up by September 2016 to infuse quality into India’s skill development ecosystem. These decisions were taken up in the  first meeting of the Governing Council of …

Dr S D Gupta appointed chairman of IIHMR University, Jaipur

The IIHMR Board, which governs the Jaipur-based Indian Institute of Health Management Research University (IIHMR, esb 1984)  has appointed Dr. S D Gupta as the Chairman of the university from June 1, this year.  Dr. SD Gupta has done pioneering work of creating and establishing new discipline of health management, and promoting research in health policy and health systems and programme …

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