Students are overwhelmingly happy to be back at school but at the same time a sizeable proportion of school goers also believe they are not learning enough (or nothing at all) about how to manage money and a budget or developing digital skills says a report prepared by World’s Largest Lesson, a programme under Project Everyone, a United Nations global …
Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ (IIT Madras) student body, the Centre for Innovation (CFI) showcased more than 70 tech projects during their annual Open House held at the campus on Mar 12. Open House is the marquee annual event of CFI that showcases the year-long projects undertaken and the resultant models and prototypes. It was held for the first time at the Sudha …
By Dr. Neeta Bali, Member, Academic Council, Saamarthya Teachers Training Academy of Research (STTAR) In today’s society better known as the “Knowledge Society”, schools cannot remain unaffected by the sea of changes that are taking place in terms of the integration of technology in the education space. The traditional methods of teaching, such as memorizing and theoretical learning, are passé. …
‘Vidyanjali’- a school volunteer programme first launched in June 2016 and then in 2021 as Vidyanjali 2.0 in 2021 by the union Ministry of Education, may have caught some attention in the past couple of years but is yet to become a popular buzz. And, the administrators of the program recently at the National Education Summit by PHD Chamber of …
If the decade from 2000-2010 was about initiation and promulgation of Right to Education in school education, the current decade beginning 2020 is going to be the decade of ‘universal’ Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN). While RTE had a historic basis, backing of international conventions and a vibrant activism behind it, FLN is more of a discovery and exploration together …
Exactly four months after it launched the NCF for Early Education or Foundational Stage (FS) in October 2022, the union Ministry of Education (MoE) on February 20, 2023, unveiled ‘Jadui Pitara’—a kit of play-based learning-teaching material in box comprising Toys, Puzzles, Puppets, Posters, Flash cards, Workbooks, Posters, Teacher’s Handbook etc., for the foundational stage of first five years (age group …
