The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) on February 21 presented its best practices on digital transformation across different sectors in areas of health, education, skilling, IT and more, with a special focus on sectors that helped cater to the welfare challenges faced by the masses during the pandemic at a seminar in on Building Capacities through skill training and …

As many as 65 government high school students from 12 states such as Karnataka, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Assam, Nagaland, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Haryana took part in the national level hackathon ‘Hack to the Future- the Green Edition’ held by Quest Alliance in Bengaluru from February 16th to 20th. They developed over a dozen technology solutions for environmental challenges their …

Anita Karwal (IAS), who retired in November 2022 as Secretary Department of School Education & Literacy, has penned  a book titled ‘The Power of Curiosity—in and beyond classrooms’ jointly with two other authors (the names not revealed as yet).  Karwal, who has already authored a couple of books including a travelogue Kailash Manasarovar: Cycle Rides Soul Journeys inspired by adventure …

A pioneering global study has revealed how schools worldwide are using a raft of marketing techniques to attract higher performing pupils and climb the league tables. The research, published on Feb 16 and led by the University of Bristol, shows how the increasing trend of parents being able to choose which primary and secondary school their child goes to has …

The inaugural broadcast on Radio Orchids consisted of a weather report followed by a few minutes of discussion on the background of World Radio Day (Feb 14) and the history of radio. The in-house school radio – at its campus program’s objective was to give the students a platform to hone their public speaking skills (Public Speaking is part of …

Billabong High International School, Thane, has been rebranded as as Finland International School after the promoter Goenka Global Education (GGE) entered into partnership with EduCluster Finland. The school in new avatar shall be incorporating one of the best practices of school education in the world. The Finnish curriculum has been mapped with various boards like ICSE/IGCSE/IB and made suitable for the Indian …