Safe to school and back home
Millions of children travel to school and return home by bus every day apart from those who walk, cycle or use other means of transport.
Even English teachers flunked the English language test in Punjab
Many English school teachers in Punjab flunked the English language test. It is hardly a surprise that 80,000 out of the 3.5 lakh Class 10 students in the state failed in English.
No smartphones in class– we are French!!
In a move to combat classroom distraction and “detox” youngsters -- French government has passed a new law to ensure that the phone-addicted children either do not carry their mobile devices to school or keep them stored in safe boxes during school hours.
IIM considers digital courses for masses
More than 40,000 students from 180 countries have registered for the four specialised digital education programmes known as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) developed by IIMB that are featured on edX, a platform developed by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Vachani said here. Seven more MOOCs are to be added in the coming months in the programme called IIMBx.
A state where teachers fail in tests
Only one percent of more than 245,800 primary teachers who took the test passed. Only 4.9 percent upper-primary teachers -- cleared the tests. This is the situation in a state where 99 percent of children aged 6-14 years are, officially, enrolled in schools, and there are 25 teachers for each student, near the global average.
Russian universities woo Indian students
The most popular Russian university for Indian students has been the Tver State Medical Academy. Around 800 Indians study there, they have their own community and vegetarian café in the dormitory, and hold the largest festival of Indian culture in Russia.
Why teenage girls do better in single-sex schools?
Most psychological studies suggest that girls and boys develop at different rates and that girls are far in advance of boys through the teenage years: it is in a girl's best interest to be educated separately, at least until boys catch up with them
National Education Policy 2020 – reforming education
The National Education Policy 2020 envisions an India-centric education system that contributes directly to transforming the nation sustainably into an equitable and vibrant knowledge society by providing high-quality education to all.
IITs and the IIMs: neither the best nor ideal
IITs and IIMs setup with the help of Americans in the 60s are not the best intuitions of learning that we can create. The elite that they are creating is much too imperfect and incapable of leading the society. Were the IITs and IIMs created for producing elite management cadres for the American market? Surely something is wrong, more so when, most IIT and IIM graduates are moving into marketing and not in the manufacturing sector for which they trained.
Meritnation registered 4X growth in live classes during the pandemic
Indian Edtech major Meritnation registered impressive four-fold growth in live classes and paid users during the lockdown. Meritnation is a pioneer in the field of online learning in India having started live classes in 2014. Till date it has over 2.5 crore registered students, 10 million-plus app installs and over 47 million tests attempted.
Future of MBBS students in India: 2021 and beyond?
The duration of the MBBS course is 5.6 years, which also includes a year of mandatory internship. The average fees for the MBBS course in India range from Rs. 10,000 to 6 lakhs.
Gandhiji’s concept of Buniyadi Shiksha
Gandhi's book Buniyadi Shiksha is a masterpiece in which he stressed imparting education through handicrafts, especially through spindle (takli).
- Advertisment -