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In an exclusive interaction with Mahesh Kallayil of Education Today, Mr. Praveen Tyagi, Founder of STEPapp speaks about the concept of Gamification in Education and how it stimulates creativity among students and improves learning and performance, accelerating Innovation processes. Please tell us about your journey from being an educationalist to an edu-preneur. How do you come up with an idea for STEPapp? After 22+ years of teaching, grooming, guiding, and mentoring some of the finest minds of this country through PACE IIT & Medical, there is still an urge for building a strong foundation for students’ careers. It’s really important…
Mr. Vinesh Menon, Chief Executive Officer – Education, Skilling & Consultancy Services, Ampersand in a candid interaction with Education Today, enlightens the current K-12 education scenario, NEP 2020, technological trends and the future plans of AMPERSAND Group in detail. Please walk us through the business footprint of Ampersand Group. How does Ampersand contribute to Indian education sector? The AMPERSAND Group has been founded by Mr. RustomKerawalla, a first-generation entrepreneur who had the foresight to invest energy, time, resources, and capital to transform education services and delivery in India. What started as one K12 school 16 years back and is now…
“The pandemic has been a game changer when it comes to ed-tech. We no longer have to evangelize about the benefits of e-learning supplementing traditional classroom learning”, says Mr. Jerold Chagas Pereira, Executive Director and CEO, mPowerO. Excerpts from his email interview with Education Today. Please give us a brief overview of the Indian education sector and growth potential of distance learning. According to Techonpak, the Indian education market is currently estimated to be USD 180 bn, with K-12 schools contributing USD 94 bn. Online education, pegged at USD 0.27 bn in 2019 (Omidiyar-Redseer 2019-20 Report) was projected to grow…
/PRNewswire/ — SAN DIEGO, April 12, 2022 — Millennial Tech Middle School (MTM), a new member of the community school alliance, is collaborating with Groundwork San Diego and the UCSD Center on Global Justice to create a new public education paradigm in which students become active agents of change in their communities. Environment action, in the case of MTM, will serve as a catalyst for reversing the long-standing climate of inequity that has suffocated communities along the Chollas Creek Watershed. MTM will be transformed into a centre for environmental education and a new model for future schools. MTM will consist…
With an exclusive interaction with Education Today, Keshav Maheshwari, whole-time executive of Allen Career Institute speaks about the NEP 2020, impact of COVID -19 on the coaching industry and how they are trying to reinvent themselves, Industry’s embracing digital transformation Company’s future plans and much more… Please walk us through Allen Career Institute’s journey so far. How does the company contribute to Indian education sector? Think of competitive examinations in India and the first thought that comes to mind is of students and parents seeking the right coaching courses. From Kota to Hyderabad and Delhi, Coaching Inc has spawned teaching…
Please brief us about the Mitraniketan and its various educational initiatives? Mitraniketan is a charitable organization established in the year 1956, registered under the Travancore Cochin Literary Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration ACT XII of 1955 in 1967 at Vellanad in Trivandrum district. The organization is engaged in Science & Technology and education-based development activities of the state focused on rural development. There are special programs focusing on the development of tribal children, rural youth, farmers and women in Kerala since its inception. Padmasree K. Viswanathan founded Mitraniketan after his studies in Santiniketan and work experiences in Sevagram. The educational…
/CNW/ TORONTO, April 13, 2022 – According to a recent analysis produced by experts at the University of Toronto, Canada’s child care profession need a bill of rights integrated in forthcoming federal legislation. “Governments throughout Canada frequently ignore the individuals who provide care in the quest to reduce parent payments and enhance access. However, the success of Canada’s new early learning and child care system will be determined by the quality of its personnel “Dr. Emis Akbari, one of the report’s authors, agrees. “The quality of programming where young children spend their days and the status of the early childhood…
For the past seven months, there have been ongoing protests opposing three agricultural reform bills announced by the Modi government that would completely reshape agricultural markets. The protesters, who were initially predominantly Sikh, are opposing the bills alleging that the bills are pro-corporate and curtail necessary regulations that protect smaller farmers. Since its beginning, the farmers’ protest received support from within and outside India. People from the film industry, sports, politicians, various organizations and university students were extended their support and actively participated in this protest. At Delhi’s border, hundreds of students from different universities have joined the protest saying…
The COVID pandemic induced lock-down has forced education system across the world to shift from the traditional set up of learning to an online mode of learning overnight. Many academic institutions that were earlier reluctant to change their traditional teaching approach had no option but to shift entirely to online teaching–learning This new edition of ET, will have 2 focus issues : the first one being – ‘Merits and Demerits of Online Learning ”, which aims to analyse e-learning modes in the time of crisis; strengths, weakness, opportunities and challenges of online education; and growth of edtech start-ups during the time of pandemic & the other…
The relationship between education and politics is as old as democracy itself. Education and politics are enmeshed in the network of overlapping and interlocking strands that form society’s fabric and cannot be taken out of each other. Our Cover Story attempts to analyze this symbiotic relationship between education and politics and look over how politics determine many aspects of education and vice versa. The nexus between education and politics can be perceived at several levels. Let’s have a brief overview of a few of them. Education as a tool of political propaganda Education should be ideology neutral. But political parties…