US President-elect Donald Trump today said he intends to nominate conservative activist and billionaire philanthropist Elisabeth ‘Betsy’ DeVos as his Education Secretary. After Indian-American Nikki Haley, DeVos, 58, is the second woman to be nominated to a Trump Cabinet. Haley has been nominated to the position of US Ambassador to ... Read More »
Dear Friends, Like you, my organization is deeply troubled by widespread reports of racially charged bullying, intimidation and harassment that have been happening in Michigan public schools. Racially – charged chants, immigrant children breaking down in tears at school … This is not what public education stands for in our ... Read More »
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Mysuru, is organising a roundtable discussion on sports education with the schools from Mysuru at Hotel Quorum at 3 p.m. on November 28. The agenda of the round table will be to — understand the existing programmes run by schools currently; understand constraints in ... Read More »
Later today, Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will deliver his first ever first Autumn Statement. It’s not an enviable task, as over the last few months he’ll have been lobbied hard – and pulled in different directions – by his colleagues across Whitehall. “Infrastructure investment” looks set to ... Read More »
With Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visiting India on Monday, promoting education ties between the two countries will be one of the top agendas of discussion. Around fifteen MoUs are going to be signed between Indian and Israeli universities in the field of research and promoting exchange of faculty between the ... Read More »
KOCHI: Last Friday, education minister C Raveendranath met the rep resentatives of all 36 teachers’ unions. The minister spoke for an hour, detailing new concepts and initiatives planned to strengthen the education sector. The next four hours were taken up by the unions who spoke about their workload, job security ... Read More »
Wooden carts and horses in the front yard, mooing cows in the barn, walls with hand painted frescoes and food being cooked on a stove fired by cow dung cakes — this is not a set for a period drama, but a residential school for boys in the heart of ... Read More »
Education unions at the 22nd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have insisted that this conference be the “action COP”, enabling the implementation process of last year’s formally adopted Paris Agreement. The 22nd Conference of Parties (COP22) to the United Nations Framework Convention ... Read More »
Leaders of tertiary education and research are coming together in Accra, Ghana, to tackle the increasingly changing and challenging conditions facing the further, higher education and research sectors around the world. The 10th International Further and Higher Education and Research Conference running from 14-16 November, organised by Education International, ... Read More »
The election of Donald Trump has stunned the American education unions NEA and AFT. Both unions have actively campaigned for the election of Hillary Clinton who had promised to give quality public education for all a prominent place on her political agenda. “We poured our hopes, our energy and our ... Read More »
Donald Trump’s surprise win as president in the US will give an unwelcoming message to international students. It will hurt the attractiveness of the US as the most preferred destination of choice. It’s an opinion, however, that many disagree with. Dr Rahul Choudaha, co-founder, interEDGE.org, a US-based firm specialising in ... Read More »
If you work in education policy, you maybe should have seen Donald Trump’s monumental upset coming. I didn’t, and I would guess most other wonks didn’t either. But we all saw populist frustration boil over with the federally coerced Common Core national curriculum standards. Average Americans rejected the Core over ... Read More »
