HP to create 2,000 digital classrooms in government schools across India

HP to create 2,000 digital classrooms in government schools across India

HP India on September 22 said it would enable up to 2,000 digital classrooms under HP Accessible Learning for All (ALFA) initiative in India. These digital classrooms would be set up in government or government-aided schools across 17 States for Class 9 and 12 students. The initiative was in line with the government’s National Education […]

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Education minister invites US Educational institutes to partner with India for skilling and transformation

Education minister invites US Educational institutes to partner with India for skilling and transformation

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan called upon US educational institutions to partner with India in rapidly transforming education and skilling landscape. Calling for greater academic collaboration between higher education institutions in both the countries for offering twinning programmes, joint degrees and dual degree programmes, Pradhan said, “The new National Education Policy (NEP) has lays emphasis […]

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Education minister on NEP: India’s guiding light for achieving vision of G20

Education minister on NEP: India’s guiding light for achieving vision of G20

Union Minister for Education, Dharmendra Pradhan said that the new National Education Policy (NEP) is based on foundational principles of access, equity, quality, affordability and accountability. It is India’s guiding light for promoting lifelong learning opportunities and achieving the shared vision of G20. Pradhan was addressing the gathering at the G-20 Education Minister’s meeting in […]

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Smart India Hackathon 2022: PM calls for making research, innovation a ‘way of life’

Smart India Hackathon 2022: PM calls for making research, innovation a ‘way of life’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that the culture of innovation in India would grow on the back of social and institutional support, and emphasised that research and innovation must be turned into a “way of living”. Addressing the finale of the Smart India Hackathon 2022, Modi said innovators were the flag bearers of […]

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SCERT setting up think-tank to design integrated syllabus on art, sports and health as per NEP

SCERT setting up think-tank to design integrated syllabus on art, sports and health as per NEP

In a first, the State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT) is constituting a think-tank of experts from the fields of art, sports, craft and health, which will work in alliance with the State Curriculum Framework (SCF) committees to design an integrated syllabus. The idea is to bring an integrated approach to the state’s […]

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PM Modi’s Independence Day Speech: ‘National Education Policy will give people the strength to be free from slavery’

PM Modi’s Independence Day Speech: ‘National Education Policy will give people the strength to be free from slavery’

The new National Education Policy has laid emphasis on the skill which will give people the strength to be free from slavery, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. In his address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 76th Independence Day, the prime minister said, “I look with hope the way the […]

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Govt revives plan for higher education regulatory body, this time in tune with NEP

Govt revives plan for higher education regulatory body, this time in tune with NEP

Two years after the launch of the National Education Policy 2020, which proposed the setting up of a Higher Education Commission of India (HECI), the Centre is reworking a draft of the Bill that will bring to life the proposed regulatory body for college and university-level education, cutting across disciplines. Setting up of the proposed […]

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Gujarat govt goes slow on NEP to not ‘disturb existing system’ before Assembly polls

Gujarat govt goes slow on NEP to not ‘disturb existing system’ before Assembly polls

It has been two years since the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 was announced, however, the Gujarat government is slow on implementing it and has put on hold several initiatives under it, ostensibly to “not disturb the existing system” given that assembly elections are scheduled later this year, according a government functionary. The state government […]

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National Curriculum Framework: Karnataka’s position paper for chapters on Hindu kingdoms, Ayurveda in school textbooks

National Curriculum Framework: Karnataka’s position paper for chapters on Hindu kingdoms, Ayurveda in school textbooks

In an effort to impart ‘Bharatiya’ knowledge, Karnataka’s position paper on National Education Policy (NEP)-2020, titled ‘Knowledge of India’ proposes chapters in textbooks on Hindu kingdoms, Ayurveda, women who fought for freedom and foreign invaders, genocides of Hindus, concept of 27 ‘nakshatras’ to track the position of the Moon, among other topics. The paper also […]

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National Education Policy position paper: 10 bag-less days a year recommended for students

National Education Policy position paper: 10 bag-less days a year recommended for students

Paper on value education also says there should be ‘seva diwas’ and ‘anubhav diwas’ for schoolchildren in Karnataka Paper on value education also says there should be ‘seva diwas’ and ‘anubhav diwas’ for schoolchildren in Karnataka Ten bag-less days a year have been recommended for students of Classes VI to VIII by experts in the […]

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