Category: Education

For the Techno India Group and Sister Nivedita University, the journey began more than three decades ago. Because of a dearth of private engineering colleges in West Bengal, many meritorious students relocated to other States for higher studies. This was resulting in a massive brain drain in the State. Keen on breaking the stereotype of school pass-outs joining typing classes, Goutam Roychowdhury and Satyam Roychowdhury decided to start a computer training centre. They took the initiative to open computer centres at government-sponsored colleges jointly with the Institute of Computer Engineers,…

What does a “whole child education” mean to educators? That has been a question we’ve been helping to answer since ASCD launched its whole child initiative more than a decade ago. More recently, it’s taken on greater awareness (and confusion) with the increased attention around social-emotional learning. So it is no surprise that EdSurge would publish a research article centering around this question, given the various definitions and perceptions among educators. We’ve seen and heard a multitude of definitions of what whole child means. To some it references providing nutritious food or…

Draft Education Policy has proposed state census examination for grades 3, 5, 8 NEW DELHI:  If the New Education Policy is approved and implemented, school students will appear for a board-like examination after classes 3, 5, and 8. One of the rationales behind introducing ‘state-census examination’ at the end of grades 3, 5, and 8 is that board examinations on only two occasions, at the end of grades 10 and 12, renders these assessment tests as only summative and not formative. The draft Education Policy, currently available in the public domain…