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With almost two years of empty classrooms, silent playgrounds and deserted corridors, schools are set to welcome students back to the campus. This is a good time to reflect on how we can make this transition as smooth as possible for our students. All children might have had different experiences during the lockdown, and they may react quite differently to the reopening of physical schools. Some will readily return to school, while others will struggle and experience anxiety or apprehension about moving out of the comfort of their homes. Teachers must be prepared to deal with this and devise a…
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is planning to bring back the most unique feature of its admission policy – the deprivation point model — for PhD students, Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit has said. The university had devised a deprivation point model to help students from backward regions, especially women, take admission. It was discontinued a few years back under the stewardship of the previous Vice Chancellor of the university, M Jagadesh Kumar, amid strident denunciation by a section of students. Know all about JNU Delhi like admission, placement, cut-offs & more, here. The reinstating of the deprivation model has been…
The NCERT has deleted chapters on critical issues such as climate change and monsoon from the syllabus to reduce the load on students in view of Covid disruptions in the last two years, claimed a group of college and university teachers fighting climate change. According to officials, the NCERT has trimmed the curriculum for Classes 6 to 12 to “reduce the content load” on students in light of the Covid pandemic. Around 30 per cent of the syllabi has been reduced for this academic session, they said. The Teachers Against the Climate Crisis (TACC) claimed that the National Council of…
Bowdoin College today announced that it has expanded its need-blind admissions policy to include international citizens. This step is one of many that the College has taken over the past decade to remove barriers for students, and it makes Bowdoin one of just seven institutions nationally with comprehensive need-blind aid policies for all students, regardless of citizenship. “Ensuring access to a Bowdoin education is central to our mission. This commitment to need-blind admission for our international applicants is another important part of a remarkable program of access and affordability that only a few other colleges and universities are able to provide,” said Bowdoin College President Clayton Rose. Bowdoin has…
The Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) on Wednesday issued an academic calendar for the session 2022-23 for undergraduate and postgraduate courses for first years students, with classes to begin from August 1. “The Vice-Chancellor, JMI, on the recommendation of the Dean of Faculties and in terms of Clause 11(3) of IMI Act, 1988 and on behalf of Academic Council has approved the Academic Calendar for the session 2022-23 for U.G./P.G. Courses of first Semester/Year (Subject to Covid-19 Conditions),” the university said in a statement. The examination for the first semester students for all courses will be conducted in the first 15 days of…
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) undergraduate BA programme has been introduced by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) (BAVMSME). On the eve of World MSME Day in 2022, the new initiative was introduced to the nation’s youth. The new IGNOU programme aims to meet the demands of today’s young entrepreneurs and will help them gain the information and abilities necessary to launch a firm. The curriculum will be made available beginning with the July 2022 session through the IGNOU School of Vocational Education and Training. Candidates who have completed their 10+2 are eligible for the BA Micro Small…
Greenko, India’s leading energy transition and industrial decarbonization solutions company, and IIT Hyderabad signed an MoU to launch India’s first dedicated school for sustainable science and technology. The Greenko School of Sustainable Science and Technology (GSSST) aims to plug the rising research, education, and skills gaps caused by the imperatives of sustainable development. The school will be advancing knowledge in these key thrust areas are, Climate change mitigation, AI and space technology, Energy transition and industrial transformation, Circular and regenerative economy, ZeroC processes, fuels, materials, and products, Industrial ecology and net zero clusters GSSST will open towards the end of this year and,…
At the turn of the century, when the globe was enthralled by the potential of globalisation, democratisation, and multilateralism, higher education found itself at a crossroads inconceivable today. The various crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, growing disparities, obvious developmental deficiencies, frightening democratic recessions, intolerable populisms, increasing competitive imperialisms, and ongoing armed conflicts are now wreaking havoc on society. The expansion of higher education comes with enduring disparities, shifting funding strategies, technological disruptions, uneven internationalisation, increasing complexity of accountability frameworks, and escalating struggles over the epistemic scaffolding that has long sanctioned exclusion of significant portions of global knowledges, created…
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is a “game-changer” that can overhaul the country’s education system by reorienting, redesigning, and realigning its processes, Minister of State for Education Rajkumar Ranjan Singh said on Saturday. Singh was speaking at the 27th Prof. G Ram Reddy Memorial Lecture on “Indian Education System in the Journey of 75 years of India’s Independence” at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is a “game-changer” that can overhaul the country’s education system by reorienting, redesigning, and realigning its processes, Minister of State for Education Rajkumar Ranjan Singh said on Saturday.…
The UK government has teamed up with prominent Indian companies to provide 75 fully-funded scholarships for Indian students to study in Britain beginning in September in honour of India’s 75th anniversary of independence. The British High Commission (BHC) noted in a statement that this is the most full-funding scholarships for the one-year master’s programme that have been awarded to far. According to the high commission, organisations including HSBC, Pearson India, Hindustan Unilever, Tata Sons, and Duolingo are supporting this unique project to commemorate India’s 75th anniversary of independence. A one-year master’s programme with the option to study any subject at…