Tag: Education
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Education and Election
Last Friday’s order of Calcutta High Court is suitably strident as it accords precedence to the compulsions of learning rather than election-related duties, such as detailing teachers for roll revision on school days. The verdict, a clear signal to the Election Commission of India, upholds the binary of teacher and taught, indeed the Right to …
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October 5, 2018 -
Remembering the best of teachers
The storyteller knows for certain that mere preaching is not teaching and that learning stems from the curiosity created. She also knows how the rightly chosen stories could play an effective role in educating people. It is the ancient way of imparting education.
September 2, 2018 -
Person listed as SC/ST in one state can’t claim quota benefits in another state: Supreme Court
In a majority judgment, a Constitution Bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi said, “A person notified as a Scheduled Caste in State ‘A’ cannot claim the same status in another state on the basis that he is declared a Scheduled Caste in State ‘A’.”
August 31, 2018 -
A roller-coaster ride
Virtual reality can potentially change the way a learner interacts with a dry subject matter by turning it into a real life-like experience through immersive graphics and animation.
August 28, 2018 -
Those dividing nation on religious terms are not its well-wishers: Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday urged people to love and respect fellow Indians for the nation’s development, saying those dividing the country on religious grounds are not its well-wishers. “People are made to fight in the name of religion. One religion is instigated against another. The nation is our mother and we are …
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August 15, 2018 -
Education must teach us to help fellow humans: President Kovind
Kovind said this to a congregation of students and academicians while inaugurating the centenary celebrations of St Thomas College here.
August 7, 2018 -
Study of Humanities
The basic function of education is to enhance the humanising potential. The other distressing alternative is dehumanisation. Between the two, only humanisation can be the acceptable vocation. The study of humanities promotes the process and also serves as a bulwark against dehumanising forces, that threaten humankind and are unleashed certain aspects of technology and the …
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August 6, 2018 -
Digital learning in India | How smart classrooms are changing the face of education
With tablets, laptops, Virtual Reality, Internet, interactive projectors making their way into Indian classrooms, digital learning is a reality now.
August 4, 2018 -
Education till Class 12 in all Delhi govt schools will be 100% free: Sisodia
Sisodia directed the Secretary Education to submit a proposal to scrap the school fee. This decision makes education free for students of all classes.
August 3, 2018 -
‘A good place to kick-start careers’
Barry O'Driscoll of the brand Education in Ireland gets talking about the world class research, stay-back option and many scholarship opportunities that the country's institutes offer.
July 10, 2018 -
418 govt schools made bag-free in Haryana
As part of the initiatives to improve the quality of education in Haryana and provide the students enabling environment to hone their skills and faculties, 418 English medium government schools in the state have been made bag-free. Disclosing this at a Press Conference on Thursday, additional chief secretary, School Education Department, Dheera Khandelwal said besides …
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July 5, 2018 -
Stay on the right track
An ideal higher educational institute must possess the following faculties to ensure a holistic development of students.
July 3, 2018 -
Education should not be religion based: Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama said the education system in the world should be based on common sense and scientific knowledge and not on religion.
July 2, 2018 -
When non-conformity is necessary
This is an age when a smartphone is a necessary gadget even if the user has little or no education. That education would, supposedly, help in understanding the complicity and complexity of spreading fake news. After all, who cares about boring, old mainstream journalism with its propensity to claim a sacro-sanctity that’s no longer kosher. …
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June 24, 2018 -
Education in UP has seen big progress under Yogi: Dy CM
Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Dinesh Sharma (in photo) said here on Saturday that the state government has performed far better than the previous government in its one year tenure. In an interaction with media, Sharma said the number of schools opened by the BJP government in just one year is three times that …
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June 24, 2018 -
Tamil Nadu: Students protest transfer of their teacher
As per media reports, the 28-year-old teacher, who taught English subject from 6th to 10th class, was surrounded and held by teary-eyed students, who did not allow him to leave the school.
June 22, 2018 -
Kejriwal rakes up NITI Ayog chief’s 2017 statement on privatisation of school, jails
Kejriwal's tweet comes days after trouble ensued between him and the NITI Ayog chief over reports that L-G Anil Baijal would represent Delhi in the fourth meeting of NITI Aayog’s Governing Council meeting in his absence.
June 19, 2018