The education in reservation and employment promotion in government jobs

Kolhapur: Hundreds of youths made their demands for reservation in education and employment, promotion in government jobs and quick action in the Kopardi case abundantly clear by joining the silent march in Kolhapur on Saturday.The Maratha Kranti Muk Morcha started simultaneously from two places in the city - Gandhi Maidan and Tararani chowk - around 11am. Since early morning, thousands of youths from the community gathered at the two starting points, filling the locations to the bring."The state...

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India is a very prominent learner market coursera adds 60k learners a month from online learning

Coursera Chief Business Officer Nikhil Sinha, who was in the city recently, told DH that a quarter of its Indian learners are interested in technology skills (Computer Science courses).“Technology and Data Science are the top two areas that are in demand in India, and they are followed by business. India is a very prominent learner market for us because of the combination of a young population with significant aspirations, and where education is the most important mechanism for social mobility,...

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The traditional practice of more students opting for computer engineering is slowly fading by mechanical engineering

India is looking at a change of trend as far as the engineering discipline is concerned. The traditional practice of more students opting for computer engineering is slowly fading out and is being replaced by mechanical engineering. An analysis of the data available with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the government body that is responsible for technical education in the country shows that the number of enrolments in Computer Science as a subject has been on a constant decline...

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The latest government statistics every two in five elementary schools in India

India’s dream to win gold medals in Olympic Games seems to be far-fetched considering the ground reality. According to latest government statistics, every two in five elementary schools in India don't have playground and power connection, two of the 10 basic norms mandated under the Right to Education Act (RTE).The initial findings of the latest pan-India survey (called as District Information System for Education or DISE) released this week highlights such a sorry state of affairs of world's largest...

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President Pranab Mukherjee in education can be expanded without compromising qualit good educational institutions

President Pranab Mukherjee Monday said education cover can be expanded without compromising on quality as he expressed hope that the outward flow of students from India can be reversed.Speaking at the 60th Founders Day ceremony of Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, he expressed “shock” on learning from Delhi’s education minister that a large number of students cannot read text books. It is pathetic, he said.“Education can be expanded without compromising quality… We have so many good educational institutions....

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The education of scheduled caste community to invest in Launch corporation to fund

DHARWAD: Chairman of the Indian Council for Social Sciences Research (ICSSR) Sukhdev Thorat has stated that the government should for a finance corporation to provide higher education loans at nil interest rate to poor students, like the practice in Australia and Canada.Delivering the keynote address at the inaugural session of the conference on "Creating Better World: Dr B R Ambedkar's Vision and Prospective", he said that the Scheduled Caste community continues to be oppressed and a separate...

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Mahatma Gandhi devoted time and energy to evolve a model of education that would suit its people india

Equality of access and success in education emerged as the most professed objective of the developing countries. In India, Mahatma Gandhi devoted time and energy to evolve a model of education that would suit its people. He completed his initial education from a school which was open to children from every strata of society. His sojourn to the UK made him realise the importance of universalisation of education, which reflected in the Hind Swaraj in 1909. He not only conceptualised basic education,...

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Higher Education Fair organised in New Delhi by the European Union Delegation to India

Around 125 exhibitors including universities of global ranking, embassies and higher educational institutions from 26 European Union (EU) Member States attended the two day European Higher Education Fair organised in New Delhi by the European Union Delegation to India with nearly 100 globally renowned European higher education institutions.The fair was inaugurated on Friday by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs M J Akbar and was attended by Member Secretary AICTE Dr. A P Mittal and European...

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The Centre is currently working on the National Education Policy-2016 for Information and Broadcasting M Venkaiah Naidu announced

Vijayawada, Sep 27 (PTI) The Centre is currently working on the National Education Policy-2016 that seeks to promote "a credible education system" capable of ensuring quality education and life-long learning opportunities for all, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting M Venkaiah Naidu announced today.The Centre was also working to promote 20 world-class institutions both in public and private sectors, he said, adding that "informing and reforming our youth force", so as to enable it...

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The World Education Forum revamped its annual Global Monitoring Report to progress made in the documentation of education

The Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report (http://en.unesco.org/gem-report/report/2016/education-people-and-planet-creating-sustainable-futures-all/page#sthash.VXOOQt7I.dpbs) states that India will attain universal primary education by 2050, universal lower secondary education by 2060 and universal upper secondary education only in 2085. The report implies that we are half a century behind achieving the education goals and would miss the 2030 deadline of attaining Sustainable Development Goals.GEM...

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The students of agricultural engineering of the education needs R&D push

A few years ago, five M.Tech students of agricultural engineering from one of the top agricultural universities of Maharashtra came to our Institute for a four-month internship. One day, during their internship, we had some visitors to whom I was showing our electric trike. While running it, a knob came off its switchboard. To fix it, I asked one of the interns to get me a plier. He brought me a spanner instead! He did not know the difference between the two.These students during their B.Tech...

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This policy premise that crept into higher education policy in India

Economies are no longer built by physical and natural resources alone. In the knowledge-based global society of 21st century, economies are increasingly built upon human resources. Thus, never in the history of human civilisation, knowledge has acquired so much productive potential for development, both for the individual and the society at large. In fact, primary education is critical for human development. But, in the emerging knowledge economy, mere primary education does not suffice. Higher...

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The quality education stressed on importance

Hyderabad:  “The face of the Indian Defence sector is changing rapidly with a strong focus on indigenisation and make in India initiative is also gaining steam” said Director General DRDO Dr S Christopher, during seventh Convocation of GITAM University held here on Saturday.Dr Christopher stressed the need of giving much importance on quality education. He said it was essential for making India stronger by equipping it with world-class defence systems and technologies.Make in India aims...

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Promising to evolve generation after generation India's education system

BENGALURU: Promising to evolve generation after generation, India's education system is perhaps moving out of the conventional girdles and into areas that teach the importance of staying fit and culturally sound. However, Anuradha Vikranth, classical dancer and creative director of Drishti Art Foundation, believes that much more needed to be done to make dance a permanent and significant part of the Indian education system.She was speaking at the Day 2 session of ThinkCiQ conference on emerging...

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation India will be 50 years in achieving universal education goals

New Delhi: India will be 50 years late in achieving its universal education goals, according to a latest report released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation or UNESCO.With 11.1 million out-of-school students in the lower secondary level, India’s target of achieving sustainable development goal of providing quality education to every child by 2030 is far behind schedule, as per the Global Education Monitoring report 2016.Going by the current status, India is...

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British Council India launched the third year of Education UK Alumni Awards in 2017

British Council India launched the third year of Education UK Alumni Awards that will honour the outstanding achievements of business professionals, entrepreneurs and community leaders across the globe. UK university alumni from the 14 participating countries can apply from September 7, 2016. The nominations closes on October 16 and applications on October 31, 2016. The winners will be announced in March 2017. The awards are open for the UK alumni from India, Egypt, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong,...

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The Delhi Government organised the first ever 'SMC Sabha' for School Management Committees parents and education department

The Delhi Government organised the first ever 'SMC Sabha' for School Management Committees (SMCs) of Government schools located in the Burari Assembly constituency. Strengthening and empowering Delhi's SMCs has been a top priority of the government for more than a year. The SMC Sabha was one more step towards making the government accountable to parents of children studying in government schools.SMC members from 15 schools of Burari had assembled in the Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya (RPVV)...

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The opening of a new higher secondary school

QUEPEM: The opening of a new higher secondary school, allegedly in violation of education rules, in Ambaulim within an 8km radius already dotted with five such institutions has sparked off a controversy in the area.Though the directorate of education has granted provisional licence to Shree Chandreshwar Bhootnath Shikxan Saunstha to commence only Class XI arts stream from academic year 2016-17, five institutions nearbyMaria Bambina Higher Secondary School, Cuncolim; Pope John Higher Secondary...

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The online educational supplies market in India

You can order food online, buy furniture, book bus, train or movie tickets and now, order stationery online. E-commerce portals dedicated to stationery shopping are increasingly gaining popularity among the tech-savvy students.While popular shopping websites have been selling the regular products for years, niche online shops are fast becoming one-stop destination for daily educational needs. So now you can order fancy dress costumes, stylish lunch boxes, competitive examination books to sports...

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Nila Mohanan IAS has been transferred to the education and civil aviation secretary

PANAJI: North Goa collector Nila Mohanan IAS, has been transferred to the secretariat where she will function as the education and civil aviation secretary. Former passport officer Agnelo A J Fernandes, who is currently the commissioner of labour and employment, will replace Mohanan, as per an order issued by under-secretary (personnel II) Shashank Thakur, on Friday.Sources said deputy chief minister Francis D'Souza, who holds the revenue portfolio, had demanded that chief minister Laxmikant...

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India needs to redesign its education system

The new global “revolution”--Artificial Intelligence, robots, knowledge centric economies, Uber-isation--threatens to make “industrial” policy models obsolete. Like earlier industrial “revolutions”, this will have winners and losers amongst people, communities and countries.The government’s strategy of multi-pronged initiatives--skills, start-up, digitalisation and Make in India--is the right one to make India one of the winners. The strategy’s success relies on having a “right designed” education...

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The Savitribai Phule quality development initiative on secondary ducation

KOLHAPUR: The Savitribai Phule quality development initiative on secondary ducation has seen an improvement in the class IX results this year. It has also reported a decline in the dropout ratio of girl students from schools.Jyotsna Shinde, education officer of secondary education said, "The initiative was introduced to curb the rising dropout rate of girl students and check the performance growth of students in class IX last year. Students had undergone a preliminary test to know about their...

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