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  • 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.

  • UGC launches initiative ‘SAARTHI’ to create awareness about NEP May 18, 2023 06:08 PM IST

    UGC launches initiative ‘SAARTHI’ to create awareness about NEP

    Students who are chosen as NEP SAARTHIs will work as ambassadors to promote NEP by undertaking campaigns at university levels and using social media to disseminate information about the same.

  • CBSE pass percentage drop due to learning gaps during pandemic: Experts May 17, 2023 06:48 PM IST

    CBSE pass percentage drop due to learning gaps during pandemic: Experts

    The CBSE said the pass percentage was higher than the level in 2019, the last time physical exams took place.

  • CBSE Class 12 and Class 10 results declared, girls outshine boys May 12, 2023 02:59 PM IST

    CBSE Class 12 and Class 10 results declared, girls outshine boys

    As per the officials, the national pass percentage has fallen this year. However, the Trivandrum region tops with 99.91 per cent in class 12 examination results. The CBSE class 10 results recorded 93.12 percent of students clearing the exam, a dip of 1.28 percentage points from last year.

  • CBSE brings coding, AI, financial literacy into curriculum from Class VI May 09, 2023 06:59 AM IST

    CBSE brings coding, AI, financial literacy into curriculum from Class VI

    Some experts call it the need of the hour, while others are apprehensive that it could distract students from traditional subjects.

  • Chegg is a harbinger of AI’s disruptive force May 05, 2023 01:03 PM IST

    Chegg is a harbinger of AI’s disruptive force

    Online education sector will be far from the last to be shaken up by new platform shift

  • ChatGPT is the start of online education, not the end May 03, 2023 10:25 AM IST

    ChatGPT is the start of online education, not the end

    Online education providers may well be sitting on a pot of gold​ if they can leverage their corpus of proprietary educational materials developed by humans and wed it with ChatGPT's growing abilities to communicate with humans

  • Aim is to ensure at least 50% school students get skill training by 2030: Official April 30, 2023 01:08 PM IST

    Aim is to ensure at least 50% school students get skill training by 2030: Official

    The first meeting of the G20 Education Working Group was held in Chennai earlier this year, followed by the second in Amritsar last month.

  • Supreme Court directs MP govt to re-examine 'wholesale' reservation for state residents in B.Ed admission April 29, 2023 02:47 PM IST

    Supreme Court directs MP govt to re-examine 'wholesale' reservation for state residents in B.Ed admission

    The Samiti contended 75 per cent of the seats reserved for permanent residents of Madhya Pradesh remain vacant due to non-availability of residential candidates and so they be filled with aspirants from outside the state.

  • Rethinking the MBA degree for the AI era? There’s an app for that April 21, 2023 11:33 AM IST

    Rethinking the MBA degree for the AI era? There’s an app for that

    A paid-for app is shaping up at INSEAD in an attempt to review and change what the MBA itself teaches by promoting lifelong learning. It is akin to jokingly imagining a world in which MBAs self-destruct within five years and force alumni to reapply for the qualification

  • S Chand and Company Q4 PAT may dip 16.3% YoY to Rs. 107.2 cr: Prabhudas Lilladher April 20, 2023 09:18 AM IST

    S Chand and Company Q4 PAT may dip 16.3% YoY to Rs. 107.2 cr: Prabhudas Lilladher

    Net Sales are expected to increase by 18.2 percent Y-o-Y (up 519.5 percent Q-o-Q) to Rs. 404.1 crore, according to Prabhudas Lilladher.

  • Navneet Education Q4 PAT may dip 66.2% YoY to Rs. 14 cr: Prabhudas Lilladher April 20, 2023 09:14 AM IST

    Navneet Education Q4 PAT may dip 66.2% YoY to Rs. 14 cr: Prabhudas Lilladher

    Net Sales are expected to increase by 9.3 percent Y-o-Y (up 33.3 percent Q-o-Q) to Rs. 352.2 crore, according to Prabhudas Lilladher.

  • India races to get richer before it gets older as Indians outnumber Chinese April 20, 2023 05:55 AM IST

    India races to get richer before it gets older as Indians outnumber Chinese

    India needs to advance on four broad fronts — urbanisation, infrastructure, up-skilling and broadening its labour force, and boosting manufacturing — to fully cash in on its demographic dividend and reshape the global economy in the process

  • America’s educational superpower is fading April 18, 2023 05:35 PM IST

    America’s educational superpower is fading

    If US universities and colleges are to revive and thrive, they need to rethink four fundamental principles

  • NCERT Textbook Revisions: Nations are built on resolution of conflicts April 18, 2023 04:12 PM IST

    NCERT Textbook Revisions: Nations are built on resolution of conflicts

    The NCERT textbook revisions show those behind such actions in poor light. These leave absurd gaps and ignorance of the past in their wake. There is great value in studying our history, including those parts of it that we are uncomfortable with

  • Anti-national powers against quality education for Dalits sent Manish Sisodia to jail: Delhi CM April 14, 2023 06:37 PM IST

    Anti-national powers against quality education for Dalits sent Manish Sisodia to jail: Delhi CM

    Kejriwal also said he holds B R Ambedkar in higher regard than Mahatma Gandhi because of his unshakable resolve in the face of adversities in pursuit of education.

  • 108-year-old Tamil Nadu woman, who never completed school, tops Kerala's literacy programme April 13, 2023 07:23 PM IST

    108-year-old Tamil Nadu woman, who never completed school, tops Kerala's literacy programme

    In the Kerala literacy programme's test, Kamalakanni scored 97 out of 100, a remarkable feat for someone who never completed her schooling.

  • References to Maulana Azad removed from NCERT's new class 11 political science textbook April 13, 2023 05:26 PM IST

    References to Maulana Azad removed from NCERT's new class 11 political science textbook

    As part of its "syllabus rationalisation" exercise last year, the NCERT, citing "overlapping" and "irrelevant" as reasons, dropped certain portions from the course including lessons on Gujarat riots, Mughal courts, Emergency, Cold War, Naxalite movement, among others from its textbooks.

  • Abhimanyu Saxena expects Scaler's offline UG foray to attract profits. Here's how April 12, 2023 11:17 AM IST

    Abhimanyu Saxena expects Scaler's offline UG foray to attract profits. Here's how

    Abhimanyu Saxena believes the foray will impact the company’s bottom line positively.

  • Far from erasure, the truth about the Mughals must be told April 18, 2023 04:13 PM IST

    Far from erasure, the truth about the Mughals must be told

    Government failed to communicate properly why textbooks need periodic revision. History textbook projections of the “Great Mughals” is at odds both with the lived conditions of their subjects and the neglect of dynasties like the Cholas who left behind architectural marvels like Brihadeshwara temple and enjoyed influence across southeast Asia

  • 5 Books on Mughal influence and intermingling April 08, 2023 07:51 AM IST

    5 Books on Mughal influence and intermingling

    Plus, the Amar Chitra Katha titles on Babur, Akbar, and Shah Jahan, as well as tales from the Mughal court involving Birbal and Tansen, among others.