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Arts have the potential to play a distinct and unique role in bringing the ideals of quality education into practice. As a creative medium, arts cultivate cognitive thinking which leads to other supplemental skills such as problem-solving which ultimately can benefit students across disciplines. Incorporating arts into curriculum is about developing kids that are well rounded, that are exposed to things other than simply the CORE subjects. Think about our innovators. They have elements about them that are diversified. In this special issue themed on Fostering Education through Arts, we invited authors to explore the links between learning, creativity and education and…
As a renowned institute in the field of higher education, what are VELS thoughts about the current higher education system in India? What are the shortcomings you see and how could we counteract them? India’s higher education system is the world’s third-largest in terms of student numbers, next to China and the US. India’s Higher Education sector has witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of Universities/University level Institutions & Colleges since independence yet, only three Indian Universities- IIT-Bombay, IIT-Delhi and IISc (Bangalore)- have been included in the top 200 institutes in QS World University Rankings 2020. There are many…
PRNewswire/ – LOS ANGELES, March 29, 2022 — UCLA Anderson Forecast economists Leila Bengali and William Yu report that the Microbusiness Activity Index for the United States climbed from 100.3 in September to 102.1 in December in the GoDaddy/UCLA Anderson Forecast Microbusiness Activity Index Series update for the fourth quarter of 2021. This rise demonstrates how the growth of small businesses surged in the fourth quarter of 2021. Bengali and Yu wrote in the paper that “two probable factors might explain this increase in the composite online microbusiness index.” “First, in the fourth quarter of 2021, overall U.S. economic growth…
24 March (ANI): New Delhi [India]: The Ministry of Education (MoE) will undertake a “foundational learning study” to gain a firsthand understanding of students’ learning levels at the end of Grade 3’s foundational learning stage. The project is the first of its type in the world, and it intends to establish reading comprehension benchmarks in 22 Indian languages. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) will conduct the Foundational Learning Study in all States and Union Territories (UTs) over a four-day period, from March 23 to March 26, 2022, at the sampled schools, according to a statement from…
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA, March 24, 2022 /CNW/ – Heather McPherson, a member of the New Democratic Party, introduced legislation today that responds to long-standing pleas from students, workers, and post-secondary activists for a much-needed government plan for publicly supported post-secondary education. Canada relies on universities and colleges for education, training, research, and innovation as a country. The epidemic has demonstrated the need of continuing to invest in education and research in order for our country to rise to the occasion when faced with challenges. However, this critical infrastructure can only be relied upon if it is adequately supported, and if…