Career and technical education (CTE) aka vocational education has been one of the alternative ways for high school graduates who are not interested in pursuing a college degree. Unfortunately, the program has recently been plagued with criticisms, from being a “second rate” education to the widespread gender inequality in CTE ... Read More »
A recent study found that three out of four teachers are using open educational resources these days, which is thanks in part to both easy access and widespread encouragement. Last year, the Department of Education began its #GoOpen campaign, a campaign that encourages schools to try out OERs and provides ... Read More »
In this special episode of Cover Story, we take a look at the college education options in India & abroad. Getting admission to Colleges is no easy task these days, even after scoring a decent percentage. With 99% cut-off, what are the options available for students? For students is it ... Read More »
With the cost of higher education still a hot-button issue, it pays to reconsider options for obtaining a college degree. Getting the full “college experience,” living in a dorm, strolling an ivy-covered campus, and being in a fraternity or sorority is still going to cost you. Just ask the millions ... Read More »
BESIDES HIS NGO, Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), televangelist Zakir Naik also set up two real estate companies and a video and television software production house in Mumbai in the period between 2005 to 2008, according to records available with the Registrar of Companies (RoC). The RoC records show that Zakir ... Read More »
Hamilton’s giddy growth rate has forced the building of another new school in the burgeoning northeast of the city. The new school will chalk up a tally of four new schools built in four years when the latest one opens in 2019. The most recent announcement was a new primary school in ... Read More »
Don’t mess around with the youth and education” in order to avoid a “perilous” future, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today warned the Centre and attacked it for “reducing” the Central education budget which he said would “ruin” the country. Running through the initiates taken by the AAP government during ... Read More »
The Latest on Illinois lawmakers’ fight over a stopgap budget and school funding plan for the new fiscal year that begins Friday (all times local): 6:15 p.m. Illinois colleges and universities would receive about $1 billion under stopgap budget plans filed by state Senate Democrats and Republican leaders. The money ... Read More »
A week after the TSR Subramanian committee’s draft report on the New Education Policy (NEP) was leaked, the human resource development ministry is in two minds whether to adopt or reject its recommendations. A section in the ministry is inclined to completely scrap the report and set up a ... Read More »
Emphasising on the need to ensure quality of teachers, HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said many people feel nothing is right in the education sector, but it is the responsibility of those holding a position to send a message that solutions are possible in specific time-frame. Launching a teacher’s education ... Read More »
The well is running dry for Wyoming’s community colleges and the commission that doles out their funding after Gov. Matt Mead announced another round of state budget cuts Tuesday. The Community College Commission will absorb the $20 million cuts announced recently in various ways, including less money for college libraries ... Read More »
Britain is paying the price for a high level of inequality and a chronic lack of investment in education which have prompted a disillusioned population to vote to leave the European Union, Credit Suisse Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam said on Sunday. Britain voted in a referendum on June 23 to ... Read More »
