Author: admin
What does the International Women’s Day slogan, “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world” mean for you? In this new “normal” of working from home, companies like ours have a responsibility to put policies in place to ensure women don’t suffer from either isolation or overwork and can feel part of an inclusive workplace. An inclusive workplace also implies more women in the top hierarchy and decision-making positions. We are witnessing a gradual change towards more women being part of the boardroom debate within organizations, with many of them at the helm of affairs of top…
‘Education has the power to transform lives, and that’s why we chose to start our philanthropic journey with education,’ says Mrs. Kumari Shibulal, Founder and Chairperson, The Shibulal Family Philanthropic Initiatives. Excerpts from her interview with Education Today… Please brief us about the Shibulal Family Philanthropic Initiatives and its various educational initiatives. The Shibulal Family Philanthropic Initiatives (SFPI) was born out of a sense of responsibility to society, and has been actively supporting those in need through initiatives in education, healthcare and organic farming for the last 20 years. Both Shibu and I believe that we owe much of our…
When and how did Notebook come to fruition? Notebook, the brand, came into being in 2018. We got incorporated as a company in June, 2018, and launched our first beta product on 26th January, 2019. Notebook, the idea, however, had quite a long gestation period. I have always enjoyed teaching – which is how I put myself through my college and higher education. Working as a professional with the Big Four in Consulting, I got exposed to the tremendous financial upside that lay hidden in India’s bottom billion. In 2017, I was a Director at Deloitte when I decided to…
Online learning has been adopted by many universities and institutions across the world with the advancement of technology. Even though online learning has been popular, it attained its universality during the last two years mainly because of the COVID- 19. The pandemic has altered the way we learn. Today, the Classrooms have been replaced by learning applications, Blackboards by digital screens. Online applications like the Classroom, WhatsApp have become the space for submitting homework and assignments. Emojis and private messages have taken over the chit chats during class hours. The physical interaction between students and teachers has become less. These…
Amutha Jayadeep, former All India Students Federation Secretary at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi writers on her perspective about the topic ‘National Education Policy’NEP 2020 is basically about the systemic structural change in the education field. But when such a change happens, we need to have an extensive study about such crucial changes which may much be lacking in the document. The three main principles of the document could be defined as rapid privatisation, centralisation and communalization of education. Amutha Jayadeep – Former Joint. Secy, JNU Here, a citizen is denied right to education and it is rather provided as a…
The history of Indian education policy marks its official beginning with the Charter Act of 1813. Three articles were added in this act under section 43 of this act which provided full freedom to missionaries of any European country to visit India to propagate Christianity and to expand education. Before this, the education system in India was not systematic. Muslims went to Madrasas to learn basically Arabic, Islamic Law, simple calculations, etc; whereas the Hindus went to the Gurukulas to learn Vernacular language, Sanskrit, Astronomy, Veda and simple calculations. With the implementation of Charter Act of 1813, the British East…
Ms Surabhi Goel, CEO, Aditya Birla World Academy, Aditya Birla Education Academy and The Aditya Birla Integrated School in a conversation with Mahesh Kallayil of Education Today, shares her insight on the role and function of creativity and innovation in the educational domain and how it may be promoted through formal teaching. As an educationalist, what do you think are the real objectives of education? In the next decade, the workforce requirements will undergo a paradigm shift and we will need to equip our students with the necessary skill sets to be able to meet these demands. More than anything…
India’s new National Education Policy (NEP) has given a “license to innovate” to foreign universities, according to Michael Wesley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne. “We see the NEP as a license to innovate. I think that previous to the NEP, the ability to do creative things with Indian partners was much more constrained mainly by government policy. If you take a broad overview of the NEP, it’s really India putting a flag in the sand and saying India wants to build one of the world’s best higher education sectors,” Wesley told PTI in an interview. “We want Indian institutions to…
The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Tuesday announced that students will now be able to pursue two full-time academic programmes in physical mode. The commission has put together a set of guidelines regarding the same, which will be put up on the official website of UGC. Earlier, the UGC regulations did not allow students to pursue two full-time programmes and they could only pursue one full-time degree along with online/short-term/diploma courses. The guidelines will apply to all the programmes available across the country. Students can either choose a combination of a diploma programme and an undergraduate (UG) degree, two master’s…
The North East Students’ Organisation (NESO), a conglomeration of eight students’ bodies, has taken umbrage over the Centre’s decision to make Hindi a compulsory subject till Class 10 in the region, contending that the move will be detrimental for indigenous languages and create disharmony. In a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, NESO has called for immediate withdrawal of the “unfavourable policy”, suggesting that indigenous languages should be made compulsory in their native states till Class 10, while Hindi should remain an optional or elective subject. Shah had said at a meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee in…