Toyota expands its technical education programme in India

Toyota Kirloskar Motor in collaboration with Toyota Motor Corporation and its nationwide dealer network has launched its training model of the General Technician Toyota-Technical Education Program (T-TEP) at Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara Industrial Training Institute, [SDM] Venur. This is the third General T-TEP program in Karnataka, the previous ones being with Deshpande Pvt ITI in Haliyal and Government ITI in Peenya, Bangalore.T-TEP, a special training module in which Toyota has tied up...

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a programme to train two million Android developers

India could reward risk-taking a bit more and, perhaps, its education system could emphasize more creativity, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told a group of Indian editors, but once there is a big enough market — and that is what the internet is providing —there is no reason why Indian innovation won’t take-off.On his first visit to India after taking over as Google CEO, Pichai was reluctant to set timelines for this transformation or give numbers on when the India operations could become more important...

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To use technology and promote education in India: President Pranab Mukherjee

President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday exhorted Google CEO Sundar Pichai, along with a range of business leaders, which included Kunal Bahl, CEO, Snapdeal; and Sunil Munjal, joint managing director, Hero Motor Corp; to use technology and promote education.At an event at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday, which came at the fag end of Mr.Pichai’s visit to Delhi, Mr.Mukherjee said that in spite of possessing “brilliant minds” and top technical talent, Indian universities weren’t among the top 100 in global rankings.Post a media event on Wednesday,...

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We need to get comfortable with sex education

My first experience of sex education was scary – and over very quickly. I left the lesson worried that if I went anywhere near a penis I would end up either pregnant, with a sexually transmitted infection (STI), or dead. When I divulge this to Goedele Liekens – the Belgian sexologist who presents Channel 4’s new show Sex in Class – her response is, unsurprisingly, one of horror. “It’s terrible and understandable,” she says. “Your teachers would have had the same goal as me: they don’t want...

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JLL India MOU with Manpower group and EMPI Business School to offer certificate programmes in facilities management

Property consulting firm JLL India has tied up with Manpower group and EMPI Business School to offer certificate programmes in facilities management (FM) -- one of the fastest-growing real estate services verticals. With Indian real estate advancing towards increasing corporatisation, there has been an increased demand for industry-ready facilities management professionals. However, this domain has so far relied heavily on ‘learn-on-the-job’ apprenticeships. Sandeep Sethi, Managing Director...

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Learnings from Germany growth to indian skilled developments

The new-found trust between India and Germany is a step forward in laying a strong foundation for the progress and economic growth of both the nations. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bangalore visit for strategic discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a testimony to our strengthening bilateral ties. It is not a surprise, therefore, that many MoUs were signed and business links established by numerous organisations of the two nations during the Merkel visit. And this is just the start of an era which can witness a snowballing effect...

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Two Indian institutes have for the first time to the top 200 list of the world's best universities

Two Indian institutes have for the first time made it to the top 200 list of the world's best universities. The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, has taken the top spot among its Indian counterparts, bagging the 147th rank. The only other Indian institute to make it to the top 200 is Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, ranked 179th this year. It has made great progress from last year when it was ranked 235th in the world. According to the QS World University Rankings 2015, there are...

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First national education policy meet a success: Smriti Irani

Union HRD minister Smriti Irani on Saturday termed the first zonal-level consultation meeting for a new education policy held in Agartala on Friday a success. She said the draft policy will be published in December after a nationwide consultation of the draft policy. "This is for the first time in Independent India, that a collaborative effort has been made from the grassroots level to formulate a national education policy involving teachers, students, district magistrates and other sections...

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IDP Education Fair-UK and Canada` from Tomorrow

It offers students opportunity to explore the various study options available in four countries, under one roof. “Short-listing universities and working through the application process can be  challenging for students, and pursuing higher education abroad entails a high investment. IDP Education India, a leading student placement service provider and co-owner of IELTS, will organise the ‘IDP Education Fair-UK and Canada’ here on Monday.The fair, to be held at Holiday Inn Hotel, is meant for students aspiring to pursue higher education abroad.At...

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The e-learning market in India is estimated to be around $3 billion and it is growing

India’s education system — be it primary, secondary or higher levels — is fraught with quality and quantity challenges: There is a shortage of quality teachers, an enabling environment for students and infrastructure, just to point out a few. These hurdles are not going to go away soon even though there is a surge in the number of students at all levels and an increasing demand for quality education. There is also a corresponding demand from industry for skilled human resource. But this thirst...

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Google India Celebrating India's educators this Teachers' Day 2015

New Delhi: Around the world, teachers and students have found that they can support their teaching and learning with technology in the classroom. Whether it’s collaborating on stories or projects with Google Docs, or going one-to-one with students using Chromebooks. Here in India, teachers have also been using technology to enrich student learning. From giving rural students access to new online tools, to developing online resources for other teachers to use, or finding new ways to help gifted students accelerate. This Teachers’ Day we wanted...

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TCS donates $35 million to Carnegie Mellon University

Twice on either side of 1900, Jamsetji Tata traveled to the United States, looking for technologies that would put steel in India's industrial frame. In America, Andrew Carnegie had "been there, done that" with regards to steel and was divesting some of his fortune into philanthropy, endowing $1 million for a technology school that would eventually become Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). But Tata had already beaten Carnegie on that front, pledging half his wealth (200,000 pounds) in 1893 for...

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India should allow entry of international education institutes

India should allow international educational institutes to operate in India, G V Prasad, co-chairman and CEO of DR Reddy's Lab, said here today. Indian students go abroad for higher studies and settle down there, which was a wastage of country's human resources, Prasad said, after inaugurating a campus of Woxsen-School of Business at Kamkole in Medak district of Telangana. The country needed investments in the educational sector, he added. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/48686564.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_me...

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Need For Sex Education Heightens, Is The New 'Sex Age' For Indian Kids?

A recent survey has revealed that the age at which the urban teens in India are becoming sexually active has gone down to 14 years, and the rate at which they are contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is on the rise. "A new survey, based on interviews of 15,000-odd teens between 13 and 19 from 20 cities including the metros, revealed that around 8.9% gave a history suggestive of sexually transmitted infection at least once. The average age of first sexual contact for boys was 13.72...

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India and Australia joint financial commitment of up to AUS$ one million and signed an MoU for education

Deepening cooperation in the field of education, India and Australia Monday agreed on a joint financial commitment of up to AUS$ one million and signed an MoU to strengthen existing partnerships. The MoU would intensify existing partnerships in higher education and research, including technical and professional education, schools, vocational education and training. The agreement, which will also open up new and innovative areas of cooperation, was signed between HRD Minister Smriti Irani and the Australian Minister for Education and Training...

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The Indian government is planning to open its education and legal services to foreigners

The government is planning to open its education and legal services to foreigners and liberalizing education, which is a move aimed at boosting the country's services sector. Explaining the country's approach to open education sector, Commerce Secretary Rita Teaotia suggested opening online courses to make it better accessible across communities and countries. About opening legal services for foreign players, she said the Commerce Ministry's intention is to work with Bar Council of India (BCI) to move in a direction which is in tandem with the...

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3G enabled devices as a new educational content delivery system in Rural India

The 'Play n' learn' study harnessed Galli Galli Sim Sim games and study tools to explore the benefits and limitations of 3G enabled devices as a new educational content delivery system. In the first phase of the intervention, smartphones were provided to children aged six to eight in Delhi with pre-loaded content in the form of packaged games. In the second phase , the same set of games in tablets were given to children (Grade 1, 2 and 3) in schools of South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) and 400 children of 50 schools in two districts of...

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Want education loan? Log on to vidyalakshmi.co.in, says govt

New Delhi: The government on Thursday said it has a launched a website, www.vidyalakshmi.co.in, for students seeking educational loans and five banks including SBI, IDBI Bank and Bank of India have integrated their system with the portal. "Vidya Lakshmi (www.vidyalakshmi.co.in) was launched on the occasion of Independence Day i.e. 15th August, 2015 for the benefit of students seeking educational loans," a Finance Ministry release said. The portal has been developed and maintained by NSDL e-Governance...

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Skill development essential for education

NEW DELHI: Urging the industry and other stakeholders to join the Delhi government in improving the infrastructure and quality of government schools, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said that skill development will go a long way in bringing about a positive change. Sisodia was addressing a session on 'Making Delhi the Knowledge Hub of India', organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The minister emphasized that there should be a sync between the requirements of the industry and the education system. He announced a new concept...

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Strengthen educational ties between India and Australia

In a move set to further strengthen education ties with India, Australian government today appointed former cricketer Adam Gilchrist as nation's inaugural ambassador to the region on education. The announcment was made by the Minister for Education and Training Christopher Pyne prior to attending the Annual Ministerial Dialogue and third Australia-India Education Council meeting in New Delhi on August 24. "I am delighted to announce Adam Gilchrist as the first Australia-India Education Ambassador," Pyne said. "Adam will play an important part...

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Top sex and behavioural experts have favoured making sex education

NEW DELHI: Terming the government's crackdown on 857 pornographic websites an "act in haste", the country's top sex and behavioural experts have favoured making sex education mandatory for young Indian teenagers so that crimes like rape or child molestation can be efficiently curbed. SC's observations prompt Centre to block 857 porn sites DoT bans 5 websites that don't even show porn According to them, a crackdown is not the solution as adults have a right to watch porn in the privacy of their...

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Addressing the fifth edition of Edu Summit, an annual conference on higher education

Emphasising that Indian industries and universities need to collaborate to initiate Research and Development Projects (R&D) projects, Professor Kaptan Singh Solanki, Governor, Punjab and Haryana, and UT Administrator, said the same was needed to make the ‘Make in India’ campaign a success. Professor Solanki was addressing the fifth edition of Edu Summit, an annual conference on higher education, which was organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in association with Indian School of Business (ISB) and Haryana government on ISB...

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The world’s first Development Impact Bond has been issued to support education of girls in India

The world’s first-ever Development Impact Bond has been issued to support education of girls in India. This proof of concept financing could open a new channel of funding for the international development programs. Modeled on social impact bonds or pay-for-success programs, the Educate Girls Development Impact Bond funded by the UBS Optimus Foundation will earn its return only if educational outcomes in terms of literacy and numeracy among girls are achieved. Phyllis Costanza, CEO of UBS Optimus Foundation, explains, “Our aim is to establish...

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Higher Education and Skill Education Guarantee Scheme will be named after APJ Abdul Kalam

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced that the government’s Higher Education and Skill Education Guarantee Scheme will be named after former President A P J Abdul Kalam, who passed away in Shillong on Monday. The scheme, under which the government will stand guarantee for student loans of up to Rs 10 lakh, will be named ‘Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Higher Education and Skill Education Guarantee Scheme’. Paying homage to Kalam, the CM said that he was known for his extraordinary...

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Telangana State Admission Fee Regulatory Committee TSAFRC Formed

Hyderabad: Telangana State government is to build its own Admission Fee Regulatory Committee, TSAFRC for maintaining proper fee structure in institutes, universities under TSCHE. Newly formed Telangana State is now ready to build its own Admission Fee Regulatory Committee for maintaining a proper fee structure. Recently, State Council of Higher Education TSCHE has been formed and conducted many entrance exams like EAMCET, ICET, ECET, PGCET, etc. for providing admissions into various courses...

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Education software company Blackboard is looking to sell for $3 billion

Blackboard, a U.S. software company that provides learning tools for high school and university classrooms, is exploring a sale that it hopes could value it at as much as $3 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. Blackboard's majority owner, private equity firm Providence Equity Partners LLC, has hired Deutsche Bank AG and Bank of America to run an auction for the company, the people said this week. Blackboard has annual earnings before interest, tax, depreciation...

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New education policy will be ready by 2015 : Smriti Irani

Smriti Irani has a precise goal: to spruce up the education sector in India. The Union Human Resource Development Minister is clear about what she wants – accountability from the teachers and to serve the interests of students across India whose future depends on the quality of education they receive. But in her endeavour, Irani – the feisty minister – has ruffled many feathers. And so she believes, she has been selectively targeted by these vested interests who accused her of saffronising the...

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Singapore based educational institute is planning to set-up its campus in India

Indian education market, it looks like, is all set to spread its wings as foreign educational institutes are looking forward to setting up shop here. As reported by Economic Times, a Singapore-based educational institute is planning to set-up its campus in India. The institute, in collaboration with India's Vels Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies will set-up its campuses in Chennai. With a plan to invest Rs 46 crore in the project, the University will offer programs in business and management. Management Development Institute...

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Resolved to constitute a Directorate of Legal Studies and Law Reforms

The Bar Council of India Vide their Resolution No.115/2012 have resolved to constitute a Directorate of Legal Studies and Law Reforms as well as Legal Education Committee. The aforesaid Directorate shall discuss and lay down the procedure for conducting, holding and administering the following functions :- (i) To monitor the All India Bar Examination; (ii) Continued Legal Education; (iii) Educational programmes in various centers of Legal Education and court premises; (iv) Moot Court competitions at National and international levels; (v)...

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The future of education is indeed being shaped by digital technology

Digital Education, in the last few years, has facilitated the movement of the paradigm for education beyond hardcopy books and conventional chalkboard classrooms. Over the past decade, the education industry has gone through an array of functional changes in learning methodologies, teaching techniques and in the approach to education itself. The efficacy of new tools and techniques used in education have been repeatedly proved in this time period. Researchers have found that performance of students...

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Bharat’s desire to realize its aspirations through access to better quality education

If there is one single thing that can completely rewrite the Indian social landscape, then it has to be education. It is, as Nelson Mandela famously remarked, “the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Unfortunately, over the last six decades, despite impressive progress in literacy levels and full enrolment at the primary school level, the quality deficit in education has only widened. Official data released earlier this month is cause for both hope and despair. The latter...

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99 per cent success registered in the Telangana State Education Common Entrance Test (TSEdCET)

HYDERABAD: A whopping 99 per cent success rate has been registered in the Telangana State Education Common Entrance Test (EdCET), the results of which were announced here Thursday. This year, 57,775 candidates appeared for the test, out of whom 57,220 qualified for admission into the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) courses. Every year, EdCet records one of the highest success rates, owing to the exemption awarded to several categories of students. Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SC)...

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How digital lockers to E-education, E-health in Digital India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched his most ambitious Digital India programme, which aims at transforming the country into a digitally-empowered knowledge economy. The programme aims at bringing as many as 2.5 villages under broadband connectivity. The highlights of the Digital India programme, worth Rs 1 lakh crore, are digital locker, E-education, E-health and National Scholarship Portal. Here's a guide to each initiative Launched under the Digital India programme:Digital Locker:PM...

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