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There will be difficulty in the implementation of the RTE Act initially, but things will streamline and will yield expected result soon, says Rashmi Arun Shami, Commissioner-cum-Director, Rajya Shiksha Kendra (RSK) & Ex-Officio Secretary School Education,...
By Pragya Gupta, Elets News Network (ENN) When students enter the job market entire reality gets changed for them from what they had studied throughout life. In India there is a major mismatch between the demand and supply of skilled workfore,...
MJ Xavier, Director, IIM Ranchi, tells how tablets are bringing value into India’s education system Technology in education is not a new phenomenon. Most MBA programmes have made it mandatory for students to carry a laptop...
Tablets are low-cost and come loaded with different educational suites to offer self-learning opportunities to students. The increased use of tablets can help battle the dearth of faculty in India By Ruhi Ahuja Dhingra, Elets News...
Lokesh Mehra, Director-Education Advocacy, Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd India faces two basic educational systemic problems at different levels: achieiving quantity along with quality. About 50 percent of our children at the primary level are at the risk of not...
Kahan Singh Pannu,IAS, is currently heading one of the most challenging positions in the state of Punjab – Secretary-cum- Director General School Education. A dynamic officer who served as Special Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister...
By Rajeev Sharma, Deputy State Project Director, Punjab Edusat Society In a move to provide quality education, the state of Punjab, one of the large demographics of the country, was quick to adopt the virtual classroom...
Neeti Sharma, Vice President, TeamLease – IIJT Although India’s higher education system contributes about 350,000 engineers and 2.5 million university graduates annually to our workforce, yet, at any given time, about five million graduates remain unemployed. A survey done by the...
ePunjab School web portal is an online software implemented across about 6,250 middle, high and senior secondary government schools for managing information related to students, teachers, school infrastructure, attendance, financial transactions, etc. The information is updated...
TR Shastri, Dean, ICICI Manipal Academy The purpose of education has been discussed at length from time immemorial. In 1947, Martin Luther King wrote that education has both utilitarian and moral functions. The utilitarian function enables education continuing as an arm...
Anu Senan, Saurabh Jain and Vivek Srinivasan, XLRI GMP Class of 2013 The great Indian growth story runs into 2013 with the sense of optimism intact even after a mediocre past year. With the renewed urgency in national policy decision...
The sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Punjab has always been actively involved in the improvement of quality of school education in Punjab. Special focus has been on primary schools as qualitative primary education serves as a strong foundation...