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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Byju’s downsizes Bengaluru office space in attempt to save costs and boost liquidity

The EdTech start-up which laid off large chunk of its employees earlier this year due to legal and financial issues, has downsized to two floors from two towers in a month's time.

Unleashing the Power of Technology: NIMS University’s Transformational Journey under Chairman and Chancellor Dr. B.S. Tomar

A visionary leader who is committed to excellence, Dr. Tomar is transforming NIMS University, leaving an indelible mark on healthcare and academia.

SubscriberWrites: IIT: Passion or social pressure?

In my interactions with many IIT graduates, I have noticed that not all of them are self-driven and have joined IIT with a genuine desire to learn science or technology.

India’s top 100 institutes have faculty with most Ph.Ds, says NIRF report

As per information, 73.6% of the faculty in the country’s top 100 universities have a Ph.D as compared to 64.29% in the remaining ranked by the NIRF.

Subscriber Writes: NEP & moving forward with education today

Various skill bridge institutes will end up pairing with NEP accredited institutes to provide credits for courses completed by an individual over a large time window.

After Gujarat, 14 more states & 1 UT to set up ‘Vidya Samiksha Kendras’ to monitor govt schools

VSK control rooms will collect data to track key performance indicators as well as analyse data collated from govt schemes ‘using AI & machine-learning’. A look at how states are faring.

EdTech should be driven by science and not hype. And it must look beyond UK, US

Despite the shift towards a systemic language, the challenge is to ensure that EdTech evaluative rigour is equitable across the globe.

SubscriberWrites: Literacy is not the measure of education. Application should be the discerning factor

Education is about knowing your skills, abilities and learning, and then using them in the right place at the right time, to produce something useful, writes Col KL Viswanathan. 

Rs 30 lakh and 9 years later, this Punjab youth still dreams of Canada. He’s not done

Country and courses students choose depend on how much their parents can invest and what options their agents give them. Interest, calibre of the student not a priority.

Education can’t save you from dementia, new UK study says

Education is thought to allow a person to build a ‘cognitive reserve’ – a sort of buffer against cognitive decline. This study contradicts the idea.

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India is going to have its least free & fair election in 2024. See these 5 indicators

So far what we have seen of the 2024 elections is enough to indicate that the continuous slide of democratic standards is headed toward breaching the minimum threshold of an electoral democracy.

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.