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 »
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 »
Donald Trump was elected 45th President of the United States of America early Wednesday morning, in what is being called one of the most stunning upsets in political history. Education policy was largely a second-tier issue during his campaign, which focused instead on issues like national security, trade, and Hillary ... Read More »
Government think tank Niti Aayog has organised the first regional workshop on School Education Quality Index (SEQI) to improve the learning outcomes among school children, the Aayog said today. The workshops on SEQI, organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), saw striking evidence on factors that ... Read More »
Thank you, dear parents, for handing over to us your most precious possession. We truly appreciate the trust and faith you have reposed in us and feel privileged that you and I are partners in this venture of child rearing. But like all partnerships this one too comes with its ... Read More »
Employers want to hire people with 21st-century skills and they can’t find enough qualified candidates. The problem, says Charles Fadel, Founder of the Center for Curriculum Redesign, is that our education system “is biased for college entrance requirements via tests such as the SAT which are partially obsolete, and never ... Read More »
