An escalating border dispute between China and India and the TikTok ban in India, is driving the usage of local Indian social media up. Some companies have reported numbers as high as 15 million within a period of 48 hours. A border dispute between India and China has put the two countries at loggerheads in […]
Final year exams for final students should be scrapped according to a report by UGC. The report recommended universities to use internal exams and for previous years to assess the students. University Grants Commission (UGC) panel has recommended to the government to scrap the final year exams for senior students. The recommendations come amidst coronavirus […]
A special debate on Article 370 was included in a circular by the department of education of Ahmedabad, distributed around schools in Gujarat, India. The issued circular was for all government and private schools. It orders the schools to conduct debates, special lectures, and eloquent competitions to highlight and discuss Article 370 and Article 35A. […]
According to an educational organization with close ties to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) paramilitary volunteer group, sex education in Indian schools will have an adverse effect on students. Recently, the government received a draft proposal entitled “The National Education Policy,” which recommends that school curriculums for secondary schools and above should include mandatory sex […]
Information from India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) reveals the setting up of a project deemed to be the largest teacher training in the world. Expressly, the training is set for August 22, where at least forty-two (42) lakh (a hundred thousand) teachers will be trained all over the nation. India has been making […]
The Tamil Nadu government has decided to put an end to caste segregation in schools by banning the traditional caste wristbands students wear. However, K. A. Sengottaiyan, Minister of Education of India, has decided to refuse the circular containing the ban and to allow students to continue wearing their caste markings. According to Mr. Sengottaiyan, […]
Chandrayaan 2, India’s lunar spacecraft on its second phase is anticipated to reach the moon’s orbit on August 20. According to K Sivan the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), this mission’s goal is to get to the moon’s orbit, and later, on September 7, reach the lunar surface. Chandrayaan-2 is a follow […]
Manish Sisodia, Delhi’s Education Minister, recently announced that the country is aiming to remain a job seeker economy. In a press conference this Friday, Mr. Sisodia announced a new government program called “Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum.” The idea behind the initiative is to introduce students in the region to entrepreneurship and its underlying principles so that […]
The draft of New Education Policy (NEP) for India was submitted in May 2019. On Thursday, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu, the Vice President of India, opined that the policy once implemented will catapult India to be a global education hub. The draft of the policy has been in the eye of the storm right from the […]
Affiliated colleges of the Shivaji University, Kolhapur (SUK) in were asked to collect fees from its students in India. A circular was announced last month about charging the small cost of twenty-five Indian rupees (25 INR) in each student who’s enrolled for the academic year 2019 to 2020 in the field of arts, sciences, and […]
