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Digital connect to education system
The Modi-led government has set the ball rolling on a New Education Policy. That this is being revisited after nearly 30 years does not take away from the fact that it has come at a critical...
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“Depoliticize education”
Pleading for depoliticizing the education sector, Private Schools United Front of Jammu and Kashmir rapped the previous government for fiddling with the educational careers of thousands of students for its ulterior political motives. “The recent government...
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Catch ‘em young: Kalam
Former President of India A P J Abdul Kalam exhorted the schools to teach children to become leaders at a young age as that would help in nation building. And while applauding CSR spend on worthy...
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“Foreign universities cost Indians $ 7 bn”
In the absence of quality higher education and none of the IITs making to world’s top research institutions, Indian students spend $ 6 – 7 billion (approximately Rs 45,000 crore) annually to seek greener pastures in...
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‘Unfair’ education
Delhi, Kerala and Tamil Nadu have been ranked as India’s best states in terms of gender-related education indicators, according to new data from the Ministry of Human Resource Development and UNICEF. Utilizing the district-level indicators of...
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Budget 2015: Education sector gets 2 percent less
The education sector saw over a two per cent cut in the outlay announced in the Union Budget, even as the government proposed to set up new IITs and IIMs in some states. The slash in...
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Gartner sees Top 10 Strategic Technologies Impacting Education in 2015
Social and economic pressures are forcing senior education leaders to rethink business models and consider a range of new technologies, to bring down the cost of administering education institutions and scale the business, according to research...
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Sunni body will set up 100 schools in UP
In an attempt to make inroads into the state’s Muslim community, Kerala-based ‘Sunni Yuvajana Sangam (SYS)’ has drawn up plans to open nearly 100 primary schools in the state that are estimated to cost nearly Rs...
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Budget a mixed bag
First budget of the Modi-led government has evoked mixed reactions from the education industry. Amol Arora, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Shemrock and Shemford group of Schools For the school education sector, the government believes that...
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Muslims’ quota scrapped
The BJP-led government in Maharashtra has scrapped an ordinance providing reservation for Muslims, despite the Bombay High Court allowing quota for the community in educational institutions. The Devendra Fadnavis-led government, which had earlier said that it...
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EXPERIMENTS in a digital Laboratory :: March 2015
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School Leadership Summit 2015 Confluence of the Best Brains
The second edition of School Leadership Summit (SLS) 2015 at Le Meridien, New Delhi was witness to an auspicious gathering of the most influential school education leaders. The event was attended by Principals and Academicians from...