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Amity launches varsity activity for KidZania

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Amity Education Group has launched university activity for kids at KidZania Mumbai- the global indoor theme park. Replicating an institution of higher learning, KidZania grants academic degrees in four subjects of study physical sciences, biological sciences,...

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Gender Atlas launched to promote girls’ education

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To promote girls education even in the remotest area of the country, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education and Literacy has recently launched digital gender Atlas, a tool developed by UNICEF. The Atlas...

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‘IIT heads’ selection process too casual’

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Responding sharply to HRD Minister Smriti Irani’s call for a fresh process to interview 36 candidates in a single day for appointment of directors of the IITs at Patna, Ropar and Bhubaneshwar, nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar...

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Teacher shortage: Bengal asks centre to ease rules

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Union HRD minister Smriti Irani about the shortage of teachers in the state, and requesting her to consider appointment of untrained teachers for limited period. Banerjee also...

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Delhi max successful in Right to Education

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It is an achievement of sorts for Delhi in the field of education, which has seen maximum success in implementation of the Right to Education Act’s Section 12(1)(c). This act requires private-unaided schools to reserve 25%...

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Debate over UGC courses

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The University Grants Commission issued a notification to universities and institutions to refrain from offering programmes, including engineering courses through open and distance learning mode. According to the notification, no university/institution or deemed to be university/institution...

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Rural India hopeful about jobs

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Two-thirds of India’s more than 1.2 billion people are younger than 35 year old. Nowhere is the demand for jobs more acute, and the obstacles more formidable, than in rural areas, home to more than 70...

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‘Bring nursery education under Govt control’

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Bringing in nursery education under government purview, provision for encashment of earned leaves and offering due recognition while handing over government awards are some of the major demands an association of primary teachers from private schools...

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Educational inequalities

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India is regarded as a humongous laboratory for sociological experiments by many researchers. This is fundamentally because of the large social stratification, contrasting societies and complicated blends within a society itself, which are enough to provide...

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Free, open source edu portal

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The Gujarat Chapter of Code For India, a US-based non-profit organisation of techies from India launched ‘Skill Up India’ – India’s open source, free, online education portal. “This is non-profit open education. This is an initiative...

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Barred from books

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The women inmates languishing in prisons across Bhubaneswar have little access to educational facilities even as Naveen Patnaik claims to have initiated a number of reforms and correctional measures for them. A latest study conducted by...

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Workshop on inclusive education

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The Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) has a programme called ‘Teachers Education for Persons with Special Education Needs’ (TEPSE) in universities across the country. Forty universities have courses directly being run by departments other than departments...