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The 10 finalists for the seventh annual edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning were revealed today by edX, a top worldwide online learning platform from 2U, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWOU). The finalists represent the academics and lecturers that created various Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), with subjects spanning from earth and environmental sciences to UX design. All students can audit these MOOCs for no cost at edX.org. The edX Prize is an annual honour that highlights the innovations and contributions of educators in the edX community and highlights the significant impact that online education has had on…
Eminent Indian-American academician Sunil Kumar has been appointed the next president of Massachusetts-based Tufts University, the first person of colour to occupy the position. Kumar, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Johns Hopkins University was named the next president of Tufts University by the Board of Trustees and will succeed President Anthony Monaco as Tufts’ 14th president on July 1, 2023, a statement from the university said on Thursday. Kumar will be the first person of colour to occupy the position, the statement said. Chair of the Board of Trustees and chair of the presidential search committee…
120 students will receive $300,000 from the Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) Foundation (“Foundation”) as part of the Kroger Scholars programme for the 2022–2023 academic year. Each scholar receives $2,500 toward any qualified two- or four-year college, institution, or vocational school. Scholars must be the children of Kroger associates. Since its inception in 2008, the Kroger Scholars Program has given out more than $4.5 million in scholarship funds. Averie Rutter, a Kroger Scholar pursuing a degree in animal science at Findlay University, remarked, “I feel as though I have grown up at Kroger. “The past 30 years have seen my parents…
Delhi University has notified the number of students in each batch for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, a move that has drawn flak from teachers’ organisations for what they called bigger-than-ideal batch sizes. According to the notification sent to colleges on November 11, the DU has fixed 60 students per batch for lectures, 30 for tutorials and 25 for practical classes in undergraduate programmes. For postgraduate courses, the numbers per batch are 50, 25 and 15-20, respectively. Registrar Vikas Gupta said the university came up with the rule to observe uniformity in the teacher-student ratio across all the programmes it offers.…
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When children reach the age of school, parents tend to develop this confusion about where to send their children for schooling. One from the many options are residential schools. Residential schools are places where students reside and receive schooling.The 41st edition of Education Today will have its focus themed on “Residential Schools” and we will be looking upon some of the best residential schools in the country. Check out our cover story Boarding School v/s Regular School and articles Homesickness and Students’ Mental Health in Boarding Schools, Boarding Schools for Homeless Kids by Swetha Sukumar, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas: A Visionary’s Realization,…
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed the universities to make necessary changes in their statutes and ordinances to enable the engagement of Professors of Practice in their institutions. “To enable Higher Educational Institutions to hire professional experts, the UGC has created a new position called ‘Professor of Practice’ (PoP) and already published guidelines for engaging them,” UGC secretary PK Thakur said in a letter to universities. “The Vice-Chancellors of universities and the college principals are requested to initiate steps to necessary changes in their statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations to enable the engagement of PoP in their institutions,” Mr…
Education and educational institutions are very important in a child’s life. A school is an institution that sends children to learn new things and to acquire academic as well as interpersonal skills in other areas of life. There are different types of educational institutions in our country. Day schools and boarding schools. In a day school, students go to school only for certain hours. They attend their classes and go home. But in a boarding school, students spend their entire time on campus except for their vacations. In this article, we are discussing the boarding schools and how it is…
According to the Open Doors® 2022 Report on International Educational Exchange, which was released today by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, 948,519 foreign students from more than 200 countries studied at American higher education institutions during the 2021–2022 academic year, a 4% increase from the year before. The report indicates the United States’ continuous commitment to international educational exchange by showing a robust year-over-year rebound in new international student enrollments (an increase of 80%) in the country after the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects. The Open Doors…
The Delhi University on Sunday declared the third list of seat allocation for undergraduate admission, registrar Vikas Gupta said. The total number of students admitted to the varsity so far has gone beyond 61,500 as against 70,000 undergraduate seats. In the third round of the common seat allocation system (CSAS), admissions will be done to all supernumerary quotas, including extracurricular activities (ECA), sports, CW (children and widows of armed forces), and Kashmiri migrants, along with regular admissions. “The third CSAS allocation list has been declared. The candidates will be given a two-day window from November 14 to 15 to accept…