ICTpost Education Bureau Expressing concern that no Indian university featured among the top 200 global institutions, President Pranab Mukherjee has urged the country’s premier educational institutes to step up efforts to join the league of the best. “I must convey my sense of dismay on seeing a recent report that not a single Indian university, […]
ICTpost Education Bureau The tablet is a great tool for education in Indian villages. There is no doubt that teaching our children to operate in a digital world is a good thing. Education that utilizes digital devices is a great way to acclimate children to their future lives, cultures, careers and workplaces. Suddenly, the tablet […]
ICTpost Education Bureau The combination of broadband, cheaper laptops and iPad-style tablet computers is putting online teaching services into the mainstream. We can learn a lot with South Korea in this context. The country is one of the world’s highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum. By 2015, it […]
ICTpost Education Bureau What we are seeing in 2016 and 2017 is a transition to an educational system no longer dominated by traditional education and one or two alternative models. Educational technology and new educational courses and programs are interacting to create new language and models for education. Online learning appears to be a classic […]
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 […]
