COVA Peace Network Empowers Students Through Compassionate Citizenship Program
The Compassionate Citizenship Program, a joint initiative by the Education department and COVA Peace Network, is encouraging moral education among students in government, private, and residential schools. Through experiential learning, students are delving into critical societal issues such as child... Read More
Formation of National Steering Committee for Implementation of Nipun Bharat Mission
NIPUN (National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy) Bharat Mission was launched in July 2021 by the Department of School Education and Literacy. The objective of this mission is to achieve the goal of universal proficiency in foundational literacy and numeracy for ... Read More
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Department of Social Welfare, Government of Jammu & Kashmir is running approximately 40 homes in the state for the care, treatment, protection, development and rehabilitation of children and youth who have been marginalized and displaced by rapid socioeconomic changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Around 3000 children are enrolled in these homes. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Government of Jammu & Kashmir observed these homes are not resulting the desired development of children and wishes to address the matter by evolving an inclusive education methodology, measuring outcomes basis the development/care plan set for each child, achieve the desired children development objectives, social and economic growth. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Further, Government of Jammu and Kashmir has taken a positive step to address these issues appointing a consulting company with commendable experience in setting up boarding schools and subject matter expertise in working with in the areas of welfare, care and education.</span></p>... Read More
Reopening of school—Uttarakhand issues SOP for schools ahead of expected reopening
To fortify the safety protocol and minimize the COVID-19 infection risk, the Uttarakhand state has issued detailed SOPs for schools that are scheduled to reopen from November 2. The schools in the state will reopen for classes 10 to 12 only.... Read More
Integrating digital citizenship into classrooms
Though for many years now, ‘digital citizenship’ has been an important topic of discussion among educators, the importance and relevance of this topic has gained momentum since the covid-19 pandemic struck and online learning became the norm of the day. Initially, safety, security, and legality (pro... 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
Issues and Ideals in Partnership in New School Project
There remains a possibility of disagreements and even conflict of interest between partners in a business venture, likewise in a school project where several promoters come together, partners may find themselves at cross-purposes sometimes. In this article we are trying to delve into the nature and ... Read More
Challenges Faced By Schools In Educating Children : A Critical Analysis
Identifying the most pressing challenges in the school sector in educating children, is a simple first step toward fixing them. Here, through this write up we have tried to highlight a few such challenges and their solutions.... Read More
NCPCR Launches Tele Counselling Service for Children to Help them Cope with Covid-19
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has recently launched a tele-counseling facility for the children. It has been done to help children affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to cope better. The tele-counseling service has been envisioned as a psychological and emotional first aid... Read More
Why do we need Counselors in Schools
India, the world’s 2nd most populous nation of 1 billion+ and has one of the highest suicide rates under the age group of 15 to 29. In our country, it’s very common to see the school students living under the state of stress or anxiety and peer pressure and by the folks living in surrounding who ... Read More
Pros and Cons of Virtual Schooling
The unforeseen upheaval in the world of education caused by the covid-19 pandemic brought out the resilience of the educational systems as they adapted to the virtual mode of imparting education. Blended learning, digital transformation, and connected classes not only made it feasible for learning t... Read More
A course on “Digital Citizenship and Safety” in the curriculum of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will be introduced from class 1 to 12 and will span over 14 lakh schools across the nation.... Read More
School Improvement Consultants will study and audit in detail the school, related aspects like infrastructure, education, organization, finance, market, parents, systems, etc, perform analysis to identify the key issues to be addressed and determine improvement criteria for the school to be successf... Read More
India Unveils First AI-Enabled Education Tablet
In a significant stride towards enhancing digital education accessibility, school students in India will soon benefit from the first AI-enabled education tablet developed locally. Recently launched by S. Krishnan, Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and suppo... Read More
Over the years, we have found that each situation while starting a school presents unique opportunities and challenges. During the Initial stage, Our International School Consultants will help clients to validate the idea, identify key issues to be addressed, gather information thru market survey to... Read More