Tag: Education
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J-K government to open help centres for Kashmiri students in other states
Nearly 20,000 students from the state are pursuing higher studies in various colleges in other states. This year, around 3820 students got admission to various undergraduate courses.
November 16, 2018 -
Train the Trainer
Of the many sectors critical to a country’s development, education is definitely the most important. And it is with this objective that all countries treat it with the utmost care and importance. This perhaps is the reason why the benefits of education have spread across the world. The countries, which had realised this earlier and …
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November 13, 2018 -
President Kovind calls for more participation in education
President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday exhorted people from all streams of the society to ensure their participation and contribution to education. Speaking at an event at the Patanjali University after inaugurating the two-day ‘Gyan Kumbh’ here, the President urged the participants to find solutions to the challenges to quality education. Lauding the efforts of …
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November 3, 2018 -
Dire need to create secure spaces for students away from home!
With premium higher education institutions mushrooming across the country and the existing institutes getting a face-lift with high-quality infrastructure and facilities, as well as classrooms equipped with latest technology, students are expecting more from every aspect of their college life, especially accommodation.
October 22, 2018 -
Poverty’s sick parade
“One billion people worldwide have come out of poverty since 2000,” asserts the just-released report, ‘The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers: The Stories Behind the Data, 2018’. China and India played a key role in the achievement, the report contends. Yes, that wouldn’t have been possible without factoring in the numbers in these two …
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October 20, 2018 -
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