Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) with the Tata Trusts as founding partner have launched the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education (CETE). An independent centre at TISS Mumbai, the establishment was inaugurated on Nov 12 by Santosh Kumar Sarangi, IAS, Chairperson National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) with Tata Trusts’ CEO, Srinath N, attending as …

HSNC University, Mumbai has launched its law school by the name of D. M. Harish School of Law (DMHSL). The law school is approved by the Bar Council of India and will offer five-year B.A. LL.B., five-year B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) and three-year LL.B. courses to begin with. The courses go live from December 2021. The interested candidates can apply for …

After having faced a lot of criticism and Supreme Court scrutiny (Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s). 522/2021) over lack of an alternative examination policy during the pandemic academic year 2020-21 where the board examinations had to cancelled in the wake of deadly second wave of covid 19, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), has ushered in a major examination reform from …

Oxford University Press (OUP), in its newly published global report exploring the digital divide in education, has said that 68% of teachers rate poor access to the internet or a device as the biggest barrier to digital learning, 56% said it was held back by a  lack of digital skills among parents, teachers, and learners.  The report, Addressing the Deepening Digital …

Boeing [NYSE: BA] and five Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) on Oct 29 announced the winners of the seventh annual Boeing-IIT National Aeromodelling Competition. This year the competition, one of India’s largest and most popular aeromodelling programs, was conducted virtually in compliance with COVID-19 protocols. Details of winners: Gold Category Position Institute Team Members Winner Priyadarshini College of Engineering, Nagpur …

The National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy, (NIPUN) Bharat Mission launched by Ministry of Education’s Department of School Education and Literacy on July 5 this year, gets a committee to steer its implementation. As prescribed in the Mission guidelines, a National Steering Committee (NSC) for implementation of the NIPUN Bharat Mission has been constituted on 25thOctober, …