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 »
Equitas Small Finance Bank chief people officer S. Muralidharan. Photo: Nathan G/Mint Chennai: When Equitas Small Finance Bank (then known as Equitas Microfinance Ltd) started the Equitas Development Initiatives Trust (EDIT) in February 2008, the idea was to render meaningful service to the community at large. Since then, the sole focus ... Read More »
India’s coaching centres sell dreams to millions of young students, often claiming sureshot formulas to crack the country’s tough medical or engineering exams. Many of them also deliver on their promise. But the cut-throat nature of the business played out in a bizarre manner on Thursday with two institutes laying ... Read More »
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday pledged support for magnet schools in a bid to repair ties with proponents of public education in the wake of a bruising confirmation battle, but also slammed her critics for rejecting innovation and change. In one of her first public speeches since ... Read More »
The confirmation hearings for Betsy DeVos provided an inordinate amount of drama: guns and grizzlies, an all-night talkathon on the Senate floor, and Vice President Mike Pence’s tie-breaking vote — and with good reason. DeVos, now confirmed as secretary of Education, is not just another inexperienced member of the president’s ... Read More »
For almost a decade now, 34-year-old Niranjan Giri, a night school teacher, says he has had only one priority — making night schools popular. He travels to different corners of the city, convincing those who can’t access school during the day to take up education in night schools. “Night shift ... Read More »
Betsy DeVos, a national leader in the school choice movement, may be bringing the religious culture wars to public education. Trump has tapped DeVos, who once talked about her work as an effort to “advance God’s Kingdom” and compared that to a biblical battleground, to head the Education Department. POLITICO ... 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 »
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 »
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 »
Schools in West Sussex are warning they may have no option but to cut their hours – even floating the idea of a four-day week – unless they are given emergency financial help from the government. After years of underfunding, headteachers in every primary, secondary and special school in the ... Read More »
Parents will keep the right to have places on school governing boards, the education secretary, Justine Greening, has announced. Greening told the Commons education committee on Wednesday that she was dropping plans by her predecessor Nicky Morgan to eliminate reserved places for parent governors in England’s state schools. Morgan’s original ... Read More »
