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Jackie Smalls, Chief Programs Officer at Code.org, discusses the racial difference in STEM education and technology in a new edition of the Let’s Talk STEM with Dr. Calvin Mackie podcast. According to her, the COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the disparity between STEM learning options in White neighbourhoods against those in numerous predominately Black and Brown schools across the country.Smalls tells presenter Dr. Calvin Mackie, “In terms of the gaps, we knew gaps existed, but I think the epidemic really really revealed how huge those gaps were and who truly gets access.” “It’s a pity, too. To ensure that all pupils have…
Engineering and construction conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Tuesday entered into a pact with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay to carry out a joint research and develop the green hydrogen technology. Hydrogen when produced through electrolysis process using renewable energy is known as green hydrogen which has no carbon footprint. “L&T…signed an agreement with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, the nation’s premier technology and research institution, to jointly pursue research and development work in the green hydrogen value chain,” the company said in a statement. Both the organisations have come together to contribute towards the green hydrogen…
Learned Skills, India’s market leader in the skill development and vocational education sector, announced today that it successfully sent a large batch of 18 candidates to Japan under the Technical Intern Training Program (TITP) on April 13, 2022, in various job roles such as Caregiver, Electroplater, Plastic Moulding, and more. They will be joining the four applicants supplied by Learnet before. These 18 applicants will now begin working under the supervision of their Supervising Organizations, Ecology Business Cooperative and Well Corp, after a few years of delay owing to the epidemic. Mr Satoshi from the Japanese Embassy, together with Mr…
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has approved two new courses in Integrated Circuit (IC) manufacturing and VLSI Design and Technology to help prepare market-ready talent pool in the field of semiconductors and display manufacturing. The approved courses are–Diploma in IC Manufacturing and BTech or BE Electronics in VLSI Design and Technology. “With reference to the Program for development of semiconductors and display manufacturing ecosystem in India as approved by the Cabinet, it is pertinent that the aspirations of India to set up semi-conductors and display manufacturing ecosystem would require market ready talent pool in the field of…
The Arizona State Approving Agency (AZ SAA) and United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have approved the University of Arizona Global Campus (UAGC) to offer VA education benefits once again to its military-affiliated students after a bureaucratic snafu caused a temporary lapse. The approval means that current and prospective students will again be eligible to utilize VA education benefits at UAGC, including course tuition and fees and Monthly Housing Allowance. Affected students who started classes in April, beginning with the April 5 and extending through the April 19 start dates, will be back certified by UAGC for course tuition and fees. The Monthly Housing Allowance also will be…
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Kabul: Taliban leaders in Afghanistan’s restive Herat province have outlawed co-education at government and private colleges, calling it the “source of all evils in society,” just days after promising to protect women’s rights. According to Khaama Press News Agency, the decision was reached following a meeting involving university instructors, private institution owners, and Taliban authorities on Saturday. The Taliban has released its first ‘fatwa’ since taking control of Afghanistan last week. The conquest of Kabul, the capital, on Sunday marked the end of the United States’ longest war, which began after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.Taliban bans co-education in…
Researchers at Gujarat Biotechnology University (GBU) are developing technologies to produce carbon-free fuel which can eventually reduce carbon emissions and contribute towards a green environment, according to officials. With the vision of making a “green process concept”, the research group is working on “whole-cell bio-catalysis” (WCB) for the synthesis of green fuels and biopolymers. The team claimed that the process is not only low-cost but also easily scalable on industrial size. The university has been established in partnership with University of Edinburgh (UoE), United Kingdom, by the Department of Science and Technology, Gujarat. The progress of industrialisation and exponential growth…
Cinema is a word that comes from the French cinematograph that is used to refer to the device that projects a motion picture on to a screen. In fact, movie is a more popular word than cinema and represents popular culture more than a medium of art. Movie is an alternative name for a motion picture that is used in all parts of the world. Female leads have been there in Malayalam cinema performing various roles that received recognition. But if we analyze those movies in detail, we can understand that mostly they played the roles of mother, chaste women,…
2017 is marked by a watershed movement in world feminist history. The momentum gained by the #MeToo movement not just aided in calling out abusers but simultaneously kickstarted a wide range of debates and discussions regarding women’s space, sexual autonomy, safety, and camaraderie. Tarana Burke, who coined the phrase ‘Me Too’ as early as 2006, urged women to express their open solidarity with survivors. Her vision was to empower women through empathy and the result was thousands of shocking testimonies. As women came to the fore, taking up the onus on their shoulders to stand by their sisters, the world…