The Right to Education Forum (RTE Forum), a prominent civil society network engaged in advocacy of the right to education on June 23, 2023 sent feedback on the draft NCF for School Education to the Union Ministry of Education. In this post, we reproduce an abridged version of this feedback/suggestion The NCF would have been stronger if it included …
By Balakrishnan Narayanan, Head of Analytics and Product at Fibe The rapidly evolving landscape of financial technology or fintech has revolutionized the way we conduct financial transactions, manage investments, and even think about money. Continuing with the trend for years, financial institutions are expected to increasingly develop or adopt capabilities of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The Fintech sector in India …
As the role of academic degrees is decreasing and skill, knowledge, data, and AI is changing how students, companies, and society see the world, Graduate Venture Program (GVPs) can offer HEIs in India the opportunity to engage youth and in the process will help creating a long-term impact on Indian business and the global economy writes Zahor Ahmad Paray* Graduate …
The Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 for 2021-22 report released on July 7 is the latest report in this series that commenced in 2017 as an annual tracker of the country’s progress towards SDG4 in school education. The surprise finding is that no state or UT features in the top four grade bands on a scale of 1000 and even …
Scientists of the EPTA in collaboration with the Indo-Japanese colleagues of the InPTA have reported detailed results of analysing pulsar data collected over 25 years with six of the world’s largest radio telescopes. This includes more than three years of very sensitive data collected using the unique low radio frequency range and the flexibility of India’s largest radio telescope – …
“Education is a key component of a child’s development. The relationships that teachers have with their students and the experiences they provide for them directly shape the neural circuitry of the next generation. Teachers in this way can be seen as neuro-sculptors of our future.” – JoAnn Deak Anita Karwal (IAS), the former Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy …
