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Announcements from the Government Bodies
AICTE has notified all the Vice Chancellors of Technical Universities and the Directors of AICTE approved Institutions to facilitate the education of differently able students in general and visually impaired students in particular.
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AICTE has notified all the Vice Chancellors of Technical Universities and the Directors of AICTE approved Institutions to interact with leading industries/industry associations for the development and promotion of industry-oriented course modules, and credits may be given to students for completing such course modules.
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To support the Agnipath initiative, the Department of School Education & Literacy through its autonomous institution, the NIOS, is instituting a special programme in consultation with the Defence Authorities to enable those Agniveers who are 10th class pass to further their education and obtain a 12th class pass Certificate by developing customized courses that are not only current but very relevant to their area of service.
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Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), a constituent unit of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) under Department of School Education and Literacy (DOSEL), Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India has been awarded with the UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education for the year 2021.
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The Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Education today released the Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) for 2018-19 and 2019-20 which assesses the performance of school education system at the district level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis. Read more
Please click here for the report:
https://pgi.udiseplus.gov.in/DISTRICT-PGI-ENGLISH.pdf
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In line with National Education Policy and Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) ongoing efforts through the Handbook on 21st Century Skills and Employability Skills coursework, CBSE, UNICEF and YuWaah (Generation Unlimited in India) are collaborating towards making 21st skills accessible to CBSE students.
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In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Prof Dinesh Prasad Saklani said that content in textbooks will be rationalised to reduce the content load on students from classes 6 to 12.
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The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has initiated the process of transforming engineering institutions into hybrid learning centres. For this, the council has collaborated with Avante Garde (TAG), which will be instrumental in helping the technical institutions digitally transform and amplify their achievements.
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Taking a cue from the school education system of other states and as per the guidelines of the National Education Policy, 2020, the Karnataka government renamed the department of primary and secondary education as the department of school education and literacy.
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The State government issued a notification making eight corrections in the Class I to Class X Kannada and Social Science textbooks. This comes following objections raised by members of the public, people’s representatives, and seers of various communities to the changes made in the textbooks by the Textbook Revision Committee
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Interview of Pratham CEO Rukmini Banerji: ‘Schools should prioritise recovery from pandemic-driven learning loss over curriculum’. She emphasises building foundational literacy and numeracy skills that can help children recoup the losses due to school closures.
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M. Mahadeva, Professor at IFIM, Bengaluru writes: The National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 contemplated the first time after the independence has placed priority on research in higher educational institutions. While doing so, it has rightly admitted the fact that academic research is an integral part of the higher education system in most knowledge societies
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Purna Singh writes: The long age educational policy of our country is revamped by the policy formulators. We as humans require time and a comprehensive approach to getting used to changes. Times are changing and so are the policies.
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