The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has announced the launch of ‘Smart Teacher’ training program in partnership with EXTRAMARKS, digital education company. The key objective of this initiative is to up-skill and builds digital capability of school teachers. Extramarks has been conducting pan-India virtual training sessions for teachers empowering them to use digital learning platforms and teach students digitally …

NEP remains Silent on the Extension of the RTE Act 2009 Right to Education Forum has welcomed the reiteration of increasing public investment in education to 6% of GDP in the recently approved National Education Policy. Ambarish Rai, National Convener of RTE Forum, has also acknowledged the recommendation on universalisation of school education for 3-18 years. He, however, expressed his …

FICCI commends the government on the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 released yesterday that looks fairly well structured and seems to have captured most of the important aspects of education. “This new policy has set a new paradigm by emphasizing on multidisciplinary and liberal education, doing away with affiliating system, moving towards institutional and faculty autonomy, co-existence of public and private …

As the New Education Policy 2020 approved by the union cabinet was made public, coming after 34 long years, it naturally excited the whole education sector. Though it will take days together to analyze and comment on the real hits and misses of the document, yet a lot of people gave the initial reactions. Here are some of these reactions: …

SHRM EDGE 2020, biggest ever virtual conference with the theme ‘All Things Talent’ began today.    30+ Knowledge sessions by global speakers and experts planned for two-day evetn The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), World’s largest HR Professional Society today began holding its first ever virtual conference on account of safety concerns due to the global pandemic. Inaugurated by Achal Khanna, …

After a policy preparation period of over five years, the union cabinet on July 29 approved the new education policy for the country. Coming after 34 years of the previous policy in 1986, the National Education Policy 2020 is expected to guide the education process, system and rules in coming two decades as it comes up for a review in …