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  • Govt introduces National Dental Commission Bill in Lok Sabha July 24, 2023 03:18 PM IST

    Govt introduces National Dental Commission Bill in Lok Sabha

    According to official sources, the composition of the dental commission will be similar to that of the National Medical Commission, which had replaced the Medical Council of India.

  • NIT Rourkela sees record placements, highest package at Rs 53 LPA July 24, 2023 02:12 PM IST

    NIT Rourkela sees record placements, highest package at Rs 53 LPA

    The average (overall) CTC jumped from Rs 11.15 LPA in 2021-2022 to Rs 12.95 LPA in 2022-2023 achieving an increase of more than 16 percent

  • Will AI finally end our love affair with college? July 24, 2023 10:27 AM IST

    Will AI finally end our love affair with college?

    High school graduates in the United States aged 16 to 24 enrolling in college declined from 69.1 percent in 2018 to 62 percent in the fall of 2022. Will younger Gen Z and Gen Alpha be encouraged to matriculate to trade and vocational schools, certification programmes, or apprenticeships instead of fixating on a bachelor’s degree?

  • India’s cracked the quantity problem in scientific research. Now for the quality part July 21, 2023 10:12 AM IST

    India’s cracked the quantity problem in scientific research. Now for the quality part

    India is now the world’s third largest producer of scientific research which is a great achievement, now it needs to scale up the quality of its research

  • Women still minority at IITs, efforts on to achieve gender balance: Preeti Aghalayam July 16, 2023 12:29 PM IST

    Women still minority at IITs, efforts on to achieve gender balance: Preeti Aghalayam

    During the admission for 2022-23 academic session, as many as 3310 girls, or 20 per cent of the total number of seats, have confirmed admissions across the 23 IITs.

  • Meghalaya govt appoints 4-member Education Commission to recommend reforms in education sector July 16, 2023 09:42 AM IST

    Meghalaya govt appoints 4-member Education Commission to recommend reforms in education sector

    Education Minister Rakkam A Sangma said the commission will also examine the major issues that are impacting the education sector in Meghalaya, their performance, finances, and accountability.

  • Hey, Harvard Admissions, America Isn’t Just Black and White July 07, 2023 09:40 PM IST

    Hey, Harvard Admissions, America Isn’t Just Black and White

    Perhaps the fundamental problem with these schools’ policies is their limited conception of the capacious and fluid nature of racial identity.

  • TeamLease Edtech launches work-integrated degree platform July 06, 2023 09:45 PM IST

    TeamLease Edtech launches work-integrated degree platform

    Digivarsity, which has been dubbed India's first AI-powered work-integrated degree and career discovery platform, aims to “revolutionise” higher education in India and empower students with the workplace skills

  • Norwegian school chain Dibber to open 20 schools in India by FY24 end July 04, 2023 11:43 AM IST

    Norwegian school chain Dibber to open 20 schools in India by FY24 end

    Within two months of its arrival in May 2023, the school chain has already established five schools in three Indian cities. It plans to open 100 schools in India over the next three years with an investment of Rs 100 crore.

  • Five Ways College Admissions Could Change June 30, 2023 08:42 PM IST

    Five Ways College Admissions Could Change

    Students may change what they write about in the college essay. And they may no longer be tortured by the SAT and ACT. As for children of alumni? The pressure is on to end their advantage in the admissions game.

  • US Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling continues its radical revolution June 30, 2023 10:12 AM IST

    US Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling continues its radical revolution

    Another decades-long conservative goal has been met. Chief Justice Roberts wrote that the goals of diversity were too diffuse and nonspecific to be measured; that since admissions are zero-sum, giving help to students of some races necessarily hurts those of others; and that there was no end in sight to programmes that the SC warned 20 years ago needed an eventual sunset.

  • 5 costliest mistakes stock market investors make (because of misleading graphs) June 25, 2023 11:50 AM IST

    5 costliest mistakes stock market investors make (because of misleading graphs)

    Circles for values, truncated bar graphs and 3 more googlies to watch out for if you regularly use data visuals to understand financial information.

  • 'AI will be an integral part of curriculum and pedagogy' June 25, 2023 09:29 AM IST

    'AI will be an integral part of curriculum and pedagogy'

    "The world is today full of opportunities and it is impossible to predict what will be best path to those opportunities. You just need to focus on learning what you enjoy and try your hand at as many things you can."

  • Can Byju's recover from its hard fall? June 23, 2023 10:00 AM IST

    Can Byju's recover from its hard fall?

    Amid mass firings, delayed financial results and a standoff with creditors, Byju's, the world’s most highly valued education unicorn, has to slash expenses and steady the balance sheet. After soaring through the pandemic when it bought all kinds of education-services firms with cheap money, the beleaguered company could get some respite with an Aakash IPO

  • Significant no of students across globe struggling to gain foundational literacy and numeracy skills: Education MoS June 19, 2023 05:36 PM IST

    Significant no of students across globe struggling to gain foundational literacy and numeracy skills: Education MoS

    ”The ability to read and write, and perform basic operations with numbers, is a necessary foundation and an indispensable prerequisite for all future schooling and lifelong learning. Various surveys from across the globe suggest that we are in a learning crisis and a significant portion of students in elementary school are struggling to gain FLN,” he said.

  • Andhra Pradesh govt announces EAPCET 2023 entrance exam results June 14, 2023 03:54 PM IST

    Andhra Pradesh govt announces EAPCET 2023 entrance exam results

    The percentage of qualified candidates in the engineering stream stood at 76.3 percent while it was 89.6 percent in the agriculture stream.

  • Kerala Higher Education: The decline from meritocracy to mediocrity could soon become irreversible June 13, 2023 05:46 PM IST

    Kerala Higher Education: The decline from meritocracy to mediocrity could soon become irreversible

    For a year now, Kerala’s higher education sector has been witness to one distasteful controversy after another over the politicisation of colleges and universities. As standards slip and those with proximity to the ruling establishment corner untoward benefits, there is a flight of youth from the state, taking away with them precious human capital that an ageing society cannot afford to lose

  • AP CM distributes free education kits to 43 lakh students worth Rs 1,043 crore June 12, 2023 03:37 PM IST

    AP CM distributes free education kits to 43 lakh students worth Rs 1,043 crore

    Each kit, which will be distributed to students belonging to all government and aided schools, will contain bilingual textbooks, notebooks, workbooks, three pairs of uniforms, one pair of shoes, two pairs of socks, belt, school bag, English-Telugu dictionary (sixth to 10th standards) and a pictorial dictionary (first to fifth standards).

  • What’s driving the feverish growth of Global Capability Centres (GCCs) in India? June 12, 2023 10:14 AM IST

    What’s driving the feverish growth of Global Capability Centres (GCCs) in India?

    Factors like companies investing in GCCs to develop in-house cutting edge technologies, availability of high-quality talent from Indian higher education institutions, and migration of leadership and middle-management talent from traditional IT companies have ensured that GCCs are here to stay, and grow rapidly

  • UK India Business Council sees big opportunity in defence, manufacturing tie-ups with India Inc; says FTA on track May 30, 2023 07:21 AM IST

    UK India Business Council sees big opportunity in defence, manufacturing tie-ups with India Inc; says FTA on track

    The UKIBC is helping companies seeking to move their supply chains to India, especially in manufacturing and advanced manufacturing, its CEO Richard McCallum says.

  • Consensus among states on implementation of National Education Policy 2020, says Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan May 24, 2023 06:09 PM IST

    Consensus among states on implementation of National Education Policy 2020, says Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan

    The minister’s statement comes amid opposition to implementation of NEP by Tamil Nadu.

  • Account Aggregator model is cross-sectoral, can be used beyond finance: Nandan Nilekani May 24, 2023 03:47 PM IST

    Account Aggregator model is cross-sectoral, can be used beyond finance: Nandan Nilekani

    Nilekani also said that the AA framework is incentivising people to join the system, boosting the growth of a formal economy.

  • India’s edtech soonicorns are losing connect with their valuations as growth sputters May 23, 2023 10:32 AM IST

    India’s edtech soonicorns are losing connect with their valuations as growth sputters

    According to experts, if the business model of edtech companies doesn’t make unit economic sense, it is not sustainable and scalable

  • Coaching institutes watch out. ChatGPT is coming for your students May 23, 2023 11:51 AM IST

    Coaching institutes watch out. ChatGPT is coming for your students

    Generative AI that can offer students simplified content based on specifications, tests, assessments and personalised feedback are a threat to India’s vast and burgeoning coaching institute industry

  • US, India launch working group on education and skill development May 23, 2023 06:39 AM IST

    US, India launch working group on education and skill development

    Held in a hybrid format, the first meeting of the US-India Education and Skills Development Working Group was hosted by the State Department's Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asia, Donald Lu, here along with the Ministry of Education's Joint Secretary of International Cooperation, Neeta Prasad in New Delhi.