By Autar Nehru Gujarat’s ‘not so chic’ GIFT city early this week witnessed a high profile Arambh (The Beginning) event to make the formal announcement of the opening of (branch) campuses of two leading universities from Australia—Deakin University and University of Wollongong in this specially provisioned India’s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) under Special Economic Zone Act, 2005.  And …

By Mayur Anup Chand Soni, Founder, Vair Training Educators can assess the success of their teaching outcomes by creating specified, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) learning objectives for their students. Both skill training and education are dynamic activities and therefore change and keep evolving all the time. It is crucial therefore to promote a culture of continual improvement in …

Most manufacturers colour their construction equipment yellow. Over three-quarters of all excavators worldwide wear this colour. But why? The reasons range from safety concerns to historical developments, all the way to deeply ingrained cultural and psychological associations. Imagine you have a pack of crayons, and someone asks you to draw an excavator. What colour would it wear? Most likely, it …

By Saranya Rengaraj, Founder-Director of Third Eye (a centre for autistic children) Neurodivergent learners constitute a sizeable number of children at any given time, and it is now felt that fostering an atmosphere of inclusion and acceptance, will address stigma and hardships faced by them besides making them productive citizens by aiding their education. In fact, ACCESSIBLE education is crucial …

The Department of School Education & Literacy (DoSEL) has launched a web portal ‘Apna Chandrayaan’ having activity-based support material such as quiz, puzzles, etc for school students on Mission Chandrayaan-3 developed by NCERT. Click here to see the link: https://bharatonthemoon.ncert.gov.in The web portal has a set of colouring books, online quizzes, jigsaw puzzles, picture builders, and inspiring stories in the form …

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) Professors and Students are taking basic and advanced scientific and engineering concepts to rural schools of Tamil Nadu to provide hands-on learning of Scientific Concepts to the students, which will inculcate ‘Out-of-Box’ thinking. Called ‘Device Engineering Lab’, initiated by ‘Teach to Learn’ (www.teachtolearn.co.in), it involves teaching school students the scientific concepts behind everyday devices …