Microsoft wants kids playing Minecraft in class, and it’s hoping that schools will not just let them, but support them. It’s launching a version of Minecraft today called Minecraft: Education Edition that includes some classroom tools and a way to roll out accounts to every student in a class or ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that voters had a fundamental right to know about the educational background of people contesting polls and that election of a candidate could be set aside for making false declaration on educational qualifications in the nomination paper. The ruling came when a ... Read More »
State-run universities, deemed universities and other educational institutions should be pushed to provide quality education that can transform youngsters who can solve problems that the country is facing, Secretary to the Union Ministry of Biotechnology, K. Vijay Raghavan has said. Skilled labourers Addressing the sixth convocation programme of Yenepoya University ... Read More »
NEW DELHI — According to the Narendra Modi government, using the word “sex” in a government document for framing policy on sex education for school students can “offend” people. Even though it is unclear who these “people” are, reported The Telegraph, the human resource development (HRD) ministry asked an expert ... Read More »
New Delhi, Oct. 23: One word (and its derivatives) must be taboo for any policy document on sex education for teens, the NDA government believes. That word is “sex”. The human resource development ministry has forced an expert panel to condense its recommendations on adolescent education to just one sentence ... Read More »
New Delhi: TSR Subramanian shot back into the limelight recently when RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat called for a re-look into the New Education Policy framed by a panel headed by him. A week after that, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar took the first major decision on the new “no-detention” policy, one ... Read More »
A robust education system reflects a country’s growth and prosperity. Education acts as the foundation for a brighter future of an individual. Over the last few decades, great strides in India’s education system are visible, though the focus on developing the right set of skills and providing training to create ... Read More »
When Rosley Espinoza’s daughter was very young, in preschool, she started acting differently. She seemed distracted and would get in trouble at school. “Lack of interest, teachers’ notes coming home with behavior notes,” Espinoza says, speaking in Spanish. She says she asked school officials to evaluate her daughter, Citlali, for ... Read More »
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today said the answer to country’s sustainable transformation lies in its education system, as he underscored how India was once prosperous in the past due to universities like Nalanda, Takshila and Vikramshila. “I always say India had 25 per cent of the world GDP and ... Read More »
New Delhi: The government plans to rank states on the basis of their performance in education—from the quality of their school infrastructure to learning outcomes. The idea is to instill a spirit of competition among states and get them to improve the quality of education that their students receive, two ... Read More »
LAST YEAR, the Ministry of Minority Affairs launched the Nai Manzil scheme for Muslim youth (aged 17-35 years), whereby both school-dropouts and those from Madrasa backgrounds were to be provided formal education with full fee waiver, in order to help them find employment. The Jamia Senior Secondary School, one of ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: Months after a review by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) found that the human resource development (HRD) ministry was lagging behind on several deliverables, a review of the ministry by Niti Aayog has found that not much has changed, especially in the department of school education. The Aayog ... Read More »
