Education

NITI Aayog organized the first regional workshop on the School Education Quality Index (SEQI) in collaboration with the Ministry of HRD to improve the learning outcomes among school children in the national capital on Thursday. The workshops on SEQI saw striking evidence on factors that determine

Shri Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Government of India, released an Ekal song on 21st October 2016 in New Delhi, in the presence of Shri Shyamji and Shri Bagraji. A number of Ekal volunteers and guests were also present. This is a song specially made for Ekal by

To make the laboratories in IITS at par with the best in the world it has been recommended to make 5 labs each in 7 IITs to come to this level. Under the 'Project Vishwajeet' which seeks to make the IITs world class institutes this recommendation to modernise the labs has been made. The 7 IITs are

Ekal Sansthan, under its Ekal_Digital mission undertook a pilot project of empowering digitally, all the 30 Ekal Vidyalaya teachers of Nanak Matta sanch in Uttarakhand. There are 30 schools in a sanch. After an extensive study of the area, including an ‘acharya’ survey by an intern, it was decided

पिता का साया उठा तो पढाई छोड़ दी , अब 1800 लोगों को बनाया डिजिटल साक्षर बचपन में पिता की मृत्यु के बाद आर्थिक तंगी के कारण पढाई छोडने वाली पार्वती अब तक 1800 लोगों को डिजिटल साक्षर बना चुकी है। गूगल के मुख्य कार्यकारी अधिकारी श्री सुन्दर पिचाई, 27 सितम्बर को गूगल की स्थापना की 18वीं वर्षगांठ पर नई

Delhi has 166 Special Training Centres (STCs) to run bridge courses for out-of-school children (OOSC). 122 of these are in government schools. It is estimated that Delhi may have about one lakh OOSC. The Directorate of Education intends to ask each school - municipal and government -- to start one

This is the story of the Bastar region where Maoists in the forests of Chhattisgarh do not let concrete structures to be built, even if it is for schools. The reason being that they fear that these concrete structures could also be used as camps for security forces. The locals with a zeal to get

केंद्रीय मानव संसाधन विकास मंत्री श्री प्रकाश जावड़ेकर ने आज कहा कि शीघ्र ही लोगों को घरों में अच्छे शिक्षकों से पढ़ने का अवसर मिलेगा। ऐसा संभव होगा डीटीएच और केबल टीवी के माध्यम से। इसमें कोई भी शिक्षक यदि किसी एक विषय में अच्छा है तो उसे भी पढ़ाने का अवसर मिलेगा। साथ ही छात्रों को भी अच्छे शिक्षकों

We have been reading a lot on schools run by government and NGOs for slum kids. However, many a times we have seen that once enrolled it is not easy to retain these children. The drop out rate is very high. The parents are not very interested and sometimes even resist any attempt at all that is

Centre approves proposal for initiation of the 3rd Phase of TEQIP, which will be implemented as a ‘Central Sector Scheme’ with total project outlay of Rs 3,600 crore. HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said that the focus in this phase would be on seven low income states (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand

Rajasthan has become the first state in the country to rope in BEd students as interns for teaching in government schools. The state has 2.59 lakh teachers and falls short of 60,000 teachers to meet the proper student-teacher ratio. This is a right step to fill the gap of teachers. And

Another inspirational story from Madhya Pradesh. A tribal girl, Asha Gond, 16, is all set to go to Oxford, UK to study English. She is from Janwaar village in Panna district of MP. Asha was encouraged by a German woman, Ulrike Reinhard, who has created a skatepark in Janwaar and trains school-going