ICTpost Governance Bureau Marginalized communities are communities in underserved areas, both urban and rural, that include the following target groups, among others: Women, Persons with Disabilities, Unemployed, Poor, Youth, Elderly, Immigrants and Micro-enterprises. Marginalization can be defined as not belonging to the mainstream culture, and thus lacking the social capital to partake from the benefits […]
PTI NEW DELHI: Investing in education of girls, especially the most marginalized, is required to make progress on most social indicators in India, according to UNICEF. To mark the International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF organized a meeting with top Urdu editors in the capital. Speaking at the event, Urmila Sarkar, chief of education […]
ICTpost Governance Bureau When the focus on e-Governance started in the late nineties in India, the Internet connectivity was abysmally poor. In rural India, there was practically no such connectivity. Therefore a significant amount of e-Governance focus was on connectivity and especially on setting up rural Internet kiosks, a shared access center, where the rural […]
ICTpost Education Bureau Private education is big business in India. KPMG pegs the industry at nearly $50 billion and projects it to reach $115 billion by 2018. But growth rates are not uniform across the primary, secondary and tertiary education sectors. The allure of so-called B-schools outside the top tier is fading as the economy […]
Ganesh Subramanian, Director EZ Vidya Private Ltd Traditional classrooms in schools need to be transformed into ?Thinkrooms? with the student profile changing rapidly and the digital natives well-versed in using the gadgets with ease. Such an effort would help in building a ?Meta Thinking? student community for a strong and vibrant India of the future. […]
New Delhi: Feb 4, 2016 There are close to 15 lakhs government schools and 1 lakh private schools in India. Out of this, only 7-10% of the private schools have tapped the potential of multimedia classroom teaching whereas in government schools, it has barely made any inroads. Private schools account for just seven per cent […]
ICTpost News Network? New Delhi: Feb 4, 2016 BJP veteran Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Shetty and Shripad Yesso Naik, Minister of State for AYUSH came together on Feb 3 for the launch of “State of healthcare Reforms in India”, the well documented experience of the father of India’s eHealth revolution […]
Jan 29, 2016: New DELHI: UGC has written to all universities to put in place a “student counselling system” for redressal of problems and challenges faced by students in the backdrop of massive outrage over the suicide by a dalit research scholar in Hyderabad University. This system should be interactive and target-oriented, involving students, teachers […]
ICTpost Education Bureau Only one Indian business school featured in a recent global ranking list that ranked 100 international business schools worldwide. The Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad was ranked 60th in the list compiled by the Economist, slipping 12 spots from last year and 21 places from its 2013 ranking. India’s tiny Asian […]
ICTpost Education Bureau Digital India has been envisioned as an ambitious umbrella programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. Prime Minister has introduced initiatives such as e-education, e-basta, Nand Ghar which will impart education using technologies including smartphones, mobile apps and internet services in far-flung areas where it may not […]
