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Marks Or Skills? Delhi Business School Chairman Explains What Matters
Anil Somani, Founder and Executive Chairman of FOSTIIMA Business School, New Delhi, said the issue is more complex than it appears, with multiple factors shaping outcomes at different stages of a student's journey.
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Enrolment In Higher Education Crosses 4 Crore-Mark For First Time In India
The enrolment in higher education institutions increased to 4.14 crore during 2020-21, crossing the 4 crore mark for first time, according to the government's All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-2021.
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Maharashtra Government To Provide Free Education For Students Who Lost Parents To Covid
The decision to provide free education to UG and PG students has been taken for the second year in a row so that the students who have lost parents to Covid are not deprived of education due to financial constraints.
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"Need To Make Educational Institutes Future Ready": President Murmu
President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday stressed on the need to make educational institutions future ready, asserting that if the country takes steps to protect itself from vagaries of the future.
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IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras Among Institutes To Pitch For Teacher Education Programme
Answering a Lok Sabha question, the Ministry Of Education has said that IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Guwahati have submitted their applications for Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP).
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Over 1,500 Suggestions Received For New Draft Nursing Course: Health Minister
In the draft nursing education curriculum, class 12th pass students of all the three streams--science, arts and commerce--will be eligible for BSc Nursing course.
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Happiness In Classroom Leads To Better Grades, Says Study
School students in India are more stressed than happy. Happiness is a factor which fundamentally is the antithesis of stress and depression. But how much does happiness matter when it comes to learning?
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Good Grades Don't Guarantee Success: What Indian Education System Needs To Learn
The high importance attested to good grades, in India, gives rise to the idea that memorization and rote-learning is more rewarding. However, this kind of learning leads to zero to negligible learning of skills which lead to innovation and out of the box discoveries.
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Two Indian-Americans Selected For ACE Fellowship
Two Indian-Americans are among 46 emerging college and university leaders selected by American Council on Education for its prestigious fellowship, the longest-running leadership development programme in the US.
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Education Pushes Back Age Of Marriage For Rural Women
The median age at marriage for women has increased–from 19.4 years in 2001 to 21.2 years in 2011, according to Census data–but continues to be low compared to neighbouring China (25.6 years) and the global average (24.7 years), according to United Nations data. The mean age at effective marriage for females–defined as the age at consummation ...
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India's Great School Education Challenge: Crisis In BIMARU States
By 2020, India will have the worlds largest working population-- 869 million -- but an IndiaSpend analysis of indicators on literacy, school enrolment, learning outcomes, and education spending across four states -- with 43.6 per cent of Indias school-age population between the ages of five and 14 -- revealed that India is unprepared to educate and...
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Soon IIT-Kharagpur to Produce Doctors
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is venturing into medical education. The renowned tech institute has received permission and a Rs 230 crore grant to set up a super specialty hospital, where medical degrees will be given and research will be carried out.
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The Staggering Vanity of India's Powerful
Ramachandra Guha on the narcissism of our scholars and scientists.
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Aus to introduce stricter laws to protect overseas students
Australia is likely to bring laws to protect overseas students from "fake" operators in the USD 12 billion international education sector.
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Marks Or Skills? Delhi Business School Chairman Explains What Matters
Anil Somani, Founder and Executive Chairman of FOSTIIMA Business School, New Delhi, said the issue is more complex than it appears, with multiple factors shaping outcomes at different stages of a student's journey.
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Enrolment In Higher Education Crosses 4 Crore-Mark For First Time In India
The enrolment in higher education institutions increased to 4.14 crore during 2020-21, crossing the 4 crore mark for first time, according to the government's All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-2021.
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Maharashtra Government To Provide Free Education For Students Who Lost Parents To Covid
The decision to provide free education to UG and PG students has been taken for the second year in a row so that the students who have lost parents to Covid are not deprived of education due to financial constraints.
-
"Need To Make Educational Institutes Future Ready": President Murmu
President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday stressed on the need to make educational institutions future ready, asserting that if the country takes steps to protect itself from vagaries of the future.
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IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras Among Institutes To Pitch For Teacher Education Programme
Answering a Lok Sabha question, the Ministry Of Education has said that IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Guwahati have submitted their applications for Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP).
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Over 1,500 Suggestions Received For New Draft Nursing Course: Health Minister
In the draft nursing education curriculum, class 12th pass students of all the three streams--science, arts and commerce--will be eligible for BSc Nursing course.
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Happiness In Classroom Leads To Better Grades, Says Study
School students in India are more stressed than happy. Happiness is a factor which fundamentally is the antithesis of stress and depression. But how much does happiness matter when it comes to learning?
-
Good Grades Don't Guarantee Success: What Indian Education System Needs To Learn
The high importance attested to good grades, in India, gives rise to the idea that memorization and rote-learning is more rewarding. However, this kind of learning leads to zero to negligible learning of skills which lead to innovation and out of the box discoveries.
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Two Indian-Americans Selected For ACE Fellowship
Two Indian-Americans are among 46 emerging college and university leaders selected by American Council on Education for its prestigious fellowship, the longest-running leadership development programme in the US.
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Education Pushes Back Age Of Marriage For Rural Women
The median age at marriage for women has increased–from 19.4 years in 2001 to 21.2 years in 2011, according to Census data–but continues to be low compared to neighbouring China (25.6 years) and the global average (24.7 years), according to United Nations data. The mean age at effective marriage for females–defined as the age at consummation ...
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India's Great School Education Challenge: Crisis In BIMARU States
By 2020, India will have the worlds largest working population-- 869 million -- but an IndiaSpend analysis of indicators on literacy, school enrolment, learning outcomes, and education spending across four states -- with 43.6 per cent of Indias school-age population between the ages of five and 14 -- revealed that India is unprepared to educate and...
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Soon IIT-Kharagpur to Produce Doctors
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is venturing into medical education. The renowned tech institute has received permission and a Rs 230 crore grant to set up a super specialty hospital, where medical degrees will be given and research will be carried out.
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The Staggering Vanity of India's Powerful
Ramachandra Guha on the narcissism of our scholars and scientists.
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Aus to introduce stricter laws to protect overseas students
Australia is likely to bring laws to protect overseas students from "fake" operators in the USD 12 billion international education sector.
