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Commonwealth awards to highlight ‘Good Practices’ in education
The Education Good Practice Awards will be launched on April 30 at the Commonwealth Secretariat headquarters in London.
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Higher Education
John Hopkins univ goes mobile on uPortal
Johns Hopkins University has chosen Unicon to develop and deploy the school’s new mobility theme based on uPortal, the open source enterprise portal for higher education.
Corporate Updates
Mahindra MoU with Rajasthan to set up Mahindra Pride School
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. has signed a MOU with Rajasthan government to set up a Mahindra Pride School in Jaipur to provide vocational training and livelihood skills to the socially weaker sections of society.
K-12
No education for all in India
Political independence, if not complemented by social and economical independence, remains hollow. A country that boasts of a nine % growth rate is astoundingly silent on millions of children, who have never entered a school, face...
Policy Matters
All of Afghanistan
While lauding the progress made since 2001 in getting millions of Afghan children, especially girls, into school, UN envoy Kai Eide has reaffirmed the commitment of the world body to helping ensure that every child in...
Policy Matters
Maharashtra puts sex education on hold
Maharashtra government’s flip flop on the issue off sex education continues. Till early this week, the government was ready to get sex education back on the syllabus after banning it in schools last year.
Higher Education
UK-China partnerships and collaborations in higher education
Both China and Hong Kong SAR offer an expanding and highly competitive market opportunity for overseas higher education institutions, a recent report, UK-China-Hong Kong Transnational Education Project, commissioned by the British Council notes.
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Bridgeman Education launches online gallery to enable teachers to tackle curriculum subjects through art
Bridgeman Education, one of the UK’s leading online resources for academic tutors and their students, has launched an online gallery that will enable teachers and lecturers to discuss sometimes sensitive or taboo subjects through fine art...
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Bridgeman Education launches online gallery for tackling subjects through Art
Bridgeman Education, one of the UK’s leading online resources for academic tutors and their students, has launched an online gallery that will enable teachers and lecturers to discuss sensitive or taboo subjects through fine art images...
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From 2009, you can bell the CAT online
The common admission test (CAT) will finally go online from 2009. The IIMs are contemplating conducting CAT online for almost 15 days, during which students can choose when to take the exam.
Higher Education
Three new IITs to come up at makeshift sites
For the 3.2 lakh students who just took the IIT joint entrance exam across the country, here’s something to cheer about. There will be three more IITs – in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan – taking...