NEP 2020 has pushed forward the goal of universalization of school education including the children from pre-primary to secondary level, but it won’t be realized without legal obligations. There is an urgent need of strengthening of existing Right to Education (RTE) Act. According to Prof. Muchkund Dubey, former Foreign Secretary and President, Council for Social Development (CSD) the commitment of …

Data analytical skills are needed increasingly across many other disciplines.  To meet this need, Essex is offering data science training to a much wider range of students.  A pioneering project offering all students free data science training is being launched by the University of Essex at the end of next month (September). In what is thought to be a UK first, every Essex student will be offered the new Data Science for All course. A Data Science Boot …

IIT-Kanpur has won the prestigious Best Entrepreneurial Skill Training Project award for its ‘Tech for Tribal’ program at the inaugural Van Dhan Annual awards of the Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED). The awards were given marking the 34th Foundation Day of TRIFED on 6th August 2021. ‘Tech For Tribals’ an initiative aims at the holistic development of tribals with …

Udemy, an online learning and teaching platform, in its “July 2021 Workplace Learning Skills Index,” identifies the most in-demand skills consumed by organizations globally in July. GRE (795%), Cellular Networking (265%) , and Google Cloud Pro Architect (264%) were named as the top 3 trending skills in the country. The top 10 skills in India for the month of July 2021 were as follows: …

NMIMS Global Access School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE), the distance and online arm of Mumbai’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) deemed university for management education is amongst India’s top institutions in the executive, online & distance space. NGA-SCE was founded in 1994 with an aim to provide distance education and in 2013 began the journey towards online learning. …

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Aug 4 gave its approval for continuation of the revised Samagra Shiksha Scheme for a period of five years i.e., from 2021-22 to 2025-26 with a total financial outlay of Rs.2,94,283.04 crore which includes Central share of Rs.1,85,398.32 crore. The scheme covers 1.16 million schools, over 156 …