Maharashtra might see phased reopening of schools from mid-June
While Maharashtra remains at the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis in the country, the state is revisiting the prospects of resuming activities that were abruptly halted in the wake of COVID. One such activity is schooling. The state government has indicated that June 15 onwards there is a possibilit... Read More
UNICEF scales up support in 145 countries to marginalize disruption of education amid COVID-19
As the closure of the schools was affected across countries due to the COVID-19 outbreak, it is estimated that studies of 80 percent of the students have been disrupted. Responding to the crisis, UNICEF announced that it will scale up its contributions in 145 countries to enable the students in lear... Read More
CBSE and CISCE Cancel 12th Boards
The Union Government, ending the uncertainty, cancelled the CBSE board exams.... Read More
Karnataka HC Allows 15% Waiver on School Fees instead of 30% Mandated by Govt.
The Government Order dated 29th January 2021 directing schools to reduce the tuition fees for the academic session 2020-21 by 30%, was modified by the Karnataka High Court on September 16... Read More
Launch of Key Initiatives of NEP 2020
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Virendra Kumar jointly launched some major initiatives of the New Education Policy, and a booklet on One-year NEP 2020 Achievements.... Read More
Learning outcome-centered MHRD’s Road Map for the new academic session 2020-21 released for NCERT
NCERT has been given a learning outcome oriented road map for the next academic year by the MHRD. The curriculum design, as per the directions of the ministry, has to be completed by the NCERT by October 2020 for classes 1 to 5 while the training of teachers for classes 6 to 12 has to be completed... Read More
Hiring and Retention of a Great Principal
Where you have great principals, good teachers come, stay and they work hard. This in turn helps in the creation of great students. There are no good schools without good principals. It just can't exist. So it is important to hire and retain a great principal for a good school to emerge and exist.... Read More
School education in Proddatur undergoes a radical shift with International Delhi Public School
While seeing through our school project (IDPS) in Proddatur town in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh, we familiarized ourselves with the scenario of school education in the region.... Read More
Need For Global Attitude In Teachers And Their Teaching Approaches
The contemporary world witnesses the presence of a global attitude where everyone and everything is interconnected. It is this interdependence that paves the way for the diffusion of cultures and values that take society to greater heights.... Read More
Structuring Preschool Curriculum - Waldorf and Pikler Preschool Education
There has been considerable research and studies done on the pedagogical methods and early education but few have been as successful and applied as the Waldorf and Pikler approaches when it comes to preschools. The Waldorf Education that is based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner has b... Read More
Solo Taxonomy, An Approach to Understand Different Levels of Students’ Understanding
However, in 1982 Biggs and Collis came up with Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes or SOLO Taxonomy which is an alternative to Bloom’s version. Bloom described about the level of cognitive skills like from remembering to analyzing and evaluating. The SOLO taxonomy implies how the learning model ... Read More
Amid Protests, clause of compulsory Hindi dropped from NEP
The clause recommending mandatory Hindi teaching in schools, as expected, did not sit well with people in many states, most notably, Tamilnadu. Amid, intense backlash that the union government faced following the declaration, the clause was dropped from the National Education Policy.... Read More
Interdisciplinary Approach and the Contemporary Education
While we emphasize the importance and primacy of learning outcomes in the entire exercise of the establishment of schools, we try to keep school promoters, students and parents abreast of different approaches... Read More
Need Help in Choosing Undergraduate Course / Streams Most Suited for You?
School education is evolving in tandem with the diversifying higher education and spawning industries and broadening career options, some conventional and some not very much so. There have been steady and studied developments in the curriculums and pedagogy but then there are also abrupt modificatio... Read More
MOOC, An Online Distance Education Platform
MOOC is a platform where teachers and students collaborate which contains a pool of resources that are readily available. They have the option of listening lectures and downloading notes and the most important thing is interaction and communication with your peers. Networking seems to be of great re... Read More
Influence of pandemic on the education of school students, and steps to overcome the same
Over a year and a half into a pandemic that has caused over 4 million fatalities globally, seemingly India is set to witness the rise of its third wave. Even so, schools are looking into reopening for yet another time, thereby underlining education as an essential requirement.... Read More
How to Start a CBSE School Anywhere in India?
There could have hardly been a better time to start/open a CBSE school in India and get CBSE affiliation. We say so because we are witnessing a change of orientation of the board – the 2018 reforms in CBSE Affiliation Bye-Laws, which are by all accounts progressive. The curtailment of paperwork, cre... Read More