Loknath Das 04 Mar 2020 2395 Views
China has emerged in the past two decades as one of the world’s largest markets for private education services and home to many of the richest entrepreneurs in the field. Shares in online education firms TAL and New Oriental Education, for instance, have soared during the coronavirus outbreak, fueling anew ... Read More »
Loknath Das 01 Feb 2020 2389 Views
Nirmala Sitharaman made important announcements about the education and skill development sectors in her budget speech on February 1, 2020. (Photos: India Today/Vikram Sharma and Lok Sabha TV) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced an allocation of Rs 99,300 crore for the education sector and Rs 3000 crore for skill development ... Read More »
Loknath Das 05 Nov 2019 2376 Views
Back in the day, e-learning used to be a plan B for students who couldn’t attend classes in the traditional way. Today, online learning has evolved into an effective and highly sought after method of studying and obtaining certifications. Innovations in cloud technologies have been brining great opportunities to online ... Read More »
Loknath Das 23 Oct 2019 2341 Views
The appointment of Gojek founder Nadiem Makarim as the new education and culture minister has been met with mixed public opinion, with a number of people using memes relating his new office to the app-based business. While others have expressed their support, some others have questioned his ability to address ... Read More »
Loknath Das 19 Aug 2019 2442 Views
Indiranagar resident R Swathi’s 13-year-old son would spend hours playing PubG and FIFA games during summer vacations. It began affecting his concentration. Now, he is allowed only 20 minutes on the tablet or PlayStation. Swathi, however, found it a challenge to control the screen time of her 19-year old daughter. College assignments ... Read More »
Loknath Das 18 Aug 2019 2386 Views
Protesters, in London in May, demanding action to address the crisis in education for young people with special educational needs and disabilities. Photograph: Dinendra Haria/LightRocket via Getty The funding crisis in special needs education is deepening, with council overspends on support for children with conditions including autism and attention deficit ... Read More »
Loknath Das 13 Aug 2019 2390 Views
The intention is to guide teachers as well as students through the entire syllabus without leaving any gaps in the teaching-learning process. (Photo: Representational image) India does not have a system of education,” proclaimed Prof. Krishna Kumar in his recent talk on “Teaching the Indian Constitution” at a conference in ... Read More »
Loknath Das 02 Aug 2019 2384 Views
The National Education Policy proposed by the Centre would have done well to emulate the earlier policies spelt out by the Mudaliar and Kothari Commissions even at the cost of being criticised for putting old wine into new bottles. Instead, it has attempted to offer new strategies for education at ... Read More »
Loknath Das 29 Jul 2019 2312 Views
Exposing the poor state of affairs in the J&K’s school education sector, the ministry of human resource development (MHRD) has painted a grim picture in terms of retention rate of students as well as availability of teachers. The ministry has prepared a 290-page document after holding project approval board (PAB) ... Read More »
Loknath Das 29 Jun 2019 2362 Views
2020 Democratic presidential candidates are shown on a screen as members of the media work during the Democratic presidential candidate debate in Miami, Florida on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Photographer: Jayme Gershen/Bloomberg © 2019 BLOOMBERG FINANCE LP Charter schools are under attack. They are being blamed for draining money from ... Read More »
Loknath Das 18 Jun 2019 2371 Views
The Kerala High Court on Monday stayed the state government’s order to merge high school and higher secondary directorates as per the Khader committee recommendations. The stay was issued based on a plea by the Nair Service Society and other teacher groups. The single judge bench which stayed the order ... Read More »
Loknath Das 17 Jun 2019 2385 Views
Ministerial Development Council reviews UAE’s policy for educational professionals. Ministerial Development Council presided over by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, discussed on Sunday the policy for educational professionals in the UAE in line with the government’s continuous effort to advance the ... Read More »