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 »
Across the US, thousands of college graduates are taking the final steps in their education. A lot has happened since they were born in the mid-1990s, and perhaps no one has seen the effects of those changes on future generations than teachers. Business Insider spoke with a handful of elementary, ... Read More »
Punjab’s director for public instructions (DPI), secondary, has written to all district education officers (DEOs) and principals to ensure that teachers wear decent clothes to school. The motivation behind the orders is cited as complaints by parents of students about teachers, particularly women, wearing “provocative”, “glittery” and “fashionable” clothes. The ... Read More »
Anxiety about losing your job to technology is both a rational and growing fear. Andy Haldane, the chief economist at the Bank of England, recently estimated that 15m jobs in the UK were threatened by automation. Technology is reaching such levels of sophistication that it is capable not only of ... Read More »
Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia Tuesday said that teachers and principals in schools are becoming slaves to curriculum and syllabus decided by bureaucrats and ministers, and should be given autonomy and freedom so that they can meet learning standards.“Teachers want to know if they are teachers or just instruments to ... Read More »
Though there is a private school next to his house, Mustafa, a resident of Kuttar, has been sending his three children to the Government Higher Primary School in Munnooru, which is a kilometre away. It is the quality education and discipline there that made Mustafa admit his children in school ... Read More »
Educational materials pack and instructional guide now available for free The company behind AppGameKit has expanded the software’s remit to target the education sector with the release of a free new add-on. The AppGameKit Education Bundle features materials aimed specifically at teachers as well as an instruction guide on how ... Read More »
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat today laid emphasis on the role of teachers and said education policies may be formulated and implemented after much discussion but it is they who put them into practice. “There is a lot of discussion about education these days. This reform or that reform, this system ... 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 »
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 »
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Ruel Reid, says two of the main goals of the ministry are to ensure that teachers are well trained and are given the necessary tools to carry out their tasks. Speaking recently at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) CONFINTEA VI ... Read More »
Mexico’s National Security Commission originally said in a statement that the police officers involved in the operation near the town of Nochixtlan were not carrying guns, But federal police chief Enrique Galindo later said that an armed unit was deployed after shots were fired at the police and the protesters ... Read More »
