Government today announced plans for setting up a National Institute for Assessment which would evaluate curriculum and education standards at school level in different states and suggest measure to improve them.
'A mother, a farmer and cattle owner, all have valuable knowledge, but academia has failed to acknowledge their wisdom.'
But why is Tharoor so much an attraction for the uppish media and the conceited politicians? Here is someone, a new entrant to politics, made a minister despite being a first time MP, well-travelled, armed with a formidable curriculum vitae, techno-savvy and witty. Need any more reasons for good old envy?
Unrecognised schools have been given three years to fix their infrastructure and five years for their teachers to get the necessary qualifications, says Kapil Sibal.
Human Resource and Development minister Kapil Sibal announced that efforts are being made to conduct a single-level entrance test by 2013.
A time has thus come when state encouragement for rural students led to empowerment of the socio-economically marginalised sections of the population. It included women. Today, with greater exposure and consequent enlightenment, it has gone beyond 'empowerment' to become 'entitlement', says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar reports on the ongoing battle for the top spot between publishers S Chand and Navneet.
Holding the lack of professional ethics responsible for the Delhi Metro accident, its Managing Director E Shreedharan has asked technology institutions to inculcate national values through their curriculum. There were deficiencies in design due to lack of ethics which caused the incident, he said, and emphasised the need for imparting values and ethics to students while they are learning.
'This will be the first open university in Kerala and it is a great tribute to Gurudevan by the helmsman of the Communist movement in Kerala,' observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The BJP slammed the Bihar CM for not organising an official function to promote the exercise in Bihar.
The President has accepted many other recommendations, including making announcements on Indian aeroplanes in Hindi followed by English.
Asia Graduate School of Business in association with Fisher College of Business and Tianjin Polytechnic University announces two postgraduate programmes at AsiaGS, Hyderabad commencing September 2008.
Top global brands such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, Facebook and Texas Instruments visited the campus.
Korean conglomerate LG Electronics plans to set up learning and design centres across India. The centre will help employees hone their skills across departments such as industrial design, marketing, lifestyle research, economic and market research among others. The company plans to bring on board specialists in these sectors as faculty for the same.
British Council's Corporate Social Responsibility Case Writing Competition -- 2007
The Indian School of Science and Management (ISSM) opens admissions for its Post Graduate Diploma Management (PGDM) programme of 2008-10.
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC) have announced an exclusive partnership to offer a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 3D Animation and Visual Effects.
If you are serious about your future, here are some MBA programmes and short courses you can consider, advises Arun Jagannathan is co-founder and CEO, CrackVerbal.
Ravenshaw University (Cuttack) invites applications for admission to its two-year full-time residential MBA programme for the year 2008.
The IIMs will have to reinvent themselves considerably if they are to compete with top B-schools internationally - both in terms of their faculty as well as their curriculum.
Chopra was an assistant professor at the Stern School of Business Administration at New York University before going to Kellogg.
Jaitley said the government proposes to establish a National Testing Agency as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organisation to conduct all entrance examinations for higher education institutions.
We need to bring solid waste management into all school curricula in an organised and cohesive manner, suggests Anjuli Bhargava.
One is hopeful that if he becomes CM, Mr Thackeray will not be as trigger happy in calling for bans or encouraging outrage, says Uttaran Das Gupta.
The robot can hold long conversations, track the child's mood and is controlled from an app on the parents' smartphone
'I never thought an invisible character like Radhiya would get me that much visibility.'
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) offers admission to five-year Integrated Master (MS) Course
'Learning to learn should be given more importance than what is actually being learnt,' recommends Zaki Ansari.
The HRD ministry has sought the view of National Council of Educational Research and Training which has not favoured the idea. The NCERT, which publishes textbooks and prepares broad curriculum for school students, has said that subjects like commerce and economics are already covering aspects of financial management. There is no need to start a separate subject, the NCERT has said.
The petition filed by Madhya Pradesh resident Veenayak Shah said the practise of prayer created obstacles in developing scientific temperament among students as the whole idea of God and religious faith is given immense priority and instilled as a thought-process among the students.
Students of the country's premiere B-school, Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A), are busy playing games, literally. These students have started learning tricks of financial markets by playing online games.Known for its case study method of teaching, IIM-A brought in online gaming to teach portfolio management to its students.
Greycells 18 will launch an interactive channel called Topper to assist students in their class 10 and class 12 board exams.
'Online teaching requires a new set of skills to be acquired by the teacher.' 'These skills are not like foot sizes or height which can't be improved, but are like muscles which can be developed with some practice.'
KIIT National Law School (KNLS) at KIIT University Bhubaneswar, Orissa is opening and offers admissions to its various programmes.
In the age of robots and automation, skills such as people management, coordination and negotiations will be relevant, says Babita Shekhar.
Corporate Social Responsibility is increasingly seen as a key differentiator, something corporates can no longer ignore.
A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed on Thursday in Penang between Romli Bin Hj Hassan, director general of Malaysia's human resources ministry and G Raghavan, president, NIIT Global Individual Learning Business.
A complete overall of the MBA curriculum, a move away from traditional teaching models, a rebranding of the school and the establishment of its own publishing imprint have all kept faculty and staff at the school busy over the past 12 months. And there is more to come.
The new National Education Policy will be tabled before the Union Cabinet by the end of this month.
"Our branded tutorial centres are a great way to deliver high quality tutoring to school students by combining the effective use of technology, in-house rich multi-media curriculum content with team of highly certified teachers - all this at an extremely competitive price point," says Shantanu Prakash, managing director, Educomp Solutions, a firm specialising in online education.
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