National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has collaborated with TCS iON, a strategic unit of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to provide NSDC’s training partners access to the TCS iON Digital Glass Room, enabling them to move classroom vocational skills training to online mode for millions of students across the country. Both the training partners and the learners can continue to adopt digital technologies in …
File photo: Parent group protest in 2019 By Autar Nehru The Covid19 pandemic has exposed the fault lines within the school system as the wavering trust between private schools and parents touches nadir over fee payment and both sides are now standing vociferously against one another, including in several courts. While some states have made a general appeal to these …
After indicating that Government is contemplating the option of reduction in the syllabus and instructional hours on requests from parents and teachers, union HRD minister Pokhriyal is facing flak from experts as they feel any such step at this stage is of no use. They say any quantum of reduction would depend on when will the schools reopen and what …
Royal Holloway, University of London, has adapted all postgraduate courses this year to ensure that students in India can confidently begin their studies with the university this September. The courses will combine face to face and online teaching and learning support. In view of any potential travel or other COVID-19 related restrictions place in the UK or in India, students …
NSRCEL, the start-up hub at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), today announced the list of 25 shortlisted fintech start-ups for a 15-month extensive program, which could see many of them receiving funding from the CSR fund of ICICI Securities, India’s leading financial services firm. The ventures selected are early-stage startups working in areas like trading, lending, payments, wealth …
A test developed by experts in Birmingham has offered evidence confirming COVID-19 to be the cause of a newly emerged multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children, who have tested negative for the virus by the PCR test. This raises the possibility that children who may have had the virus in their system, even if they haven’t been unwell, could be at …
