‘Running a classroom, not a company’: Startup founder reveals the harsh realities of building a business in IndiaSanket S, founder of Scandolous Foods, ignited debate with a LinkedIn post criticizing the preparedness of graduates from top Indian colleg...
03 Jul, 2025, 06.51 PM IST
How NatureNurture wants to change India’s archaic and rigid classroom educationIn a rapidly evolving educational landscape, Akshal and Pooja Agarwal want to redefine how learning is approached in India and beyond. With...
14 Oct, 2024, 02.10 PM IST
Rationalisation of textbooks done for speedy recovery, compensating time loss due to Covid: MoEThe National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) had last month removed portions about the 2002 Gujarat riots, Emergency, ...
18 Jul, 2022, 04.26 PM IST
The Challenges of Employability: How to solve them?02 May, 2022, 06.05 PM IST
View: How best to improve outcomes under the New Education PolicyMillions of parents and educators around the country have deep rooted and extremely outdated mental models of what education should be.
23 Nov, 2020, 10.40 AM IST
National school curriculum overhaul to begin next monthThe NCERT has submitted the road map for the revamp of the curriculum to the HRD ministry.
20 Oct, 2019, 02.12 PM IST
India has 3 times more schools than China, but that’s not translating into better educationIndia has nearly 4 lakh schools, which have less than 50 students each and a maximum of 2 teachers.
30 Mar, 2019, 02.27 PM IST
Engineering: How a dream career choice has fallen out of favourThe AICTE wants to close down about 800 engineering colleges across India. There are no takers for their seats, and admissions are plunging...
02 Sep, 2017, 04.22 PM IST
Modi government is finally making moves to pull engineering back from brink of extinctionAICTE, the body that regulates tech education in India, has now made it compulsory for engineering students to complete 2 internships durin...
29 Jul, 2017, 12.56 PM IST
XSEED announces Yatra across four statesThe XSEED program is being used by more than a million children across 3000 schools, with more than 75,000 teachers trained over the last f...
12 Jul, 2017, 07.40 PM IST
The new uncool: Dear parents, don't push kids to become engineersA few years ago, a McKinsey report said just a quarter of engineers in India were employable. Of late, some other studies put it at less th...
23 May, 2017, 01.52 PM IST
90% Indian universities have outdated curriculum: CNR RaoWe talk about increasing funds, increasing infrastructure but there is no improvement in the content we are teaching in our hi-tech classro...
05 Nov, 2015, 01.36 PM IST
Delhi government reduces syllabus of students upto Class 8 by 25%Students upto class eight studying in Delhi government schools will get a relief from carrying heavy bags to schools as the government has ...
05 Sep, 2015, 08.10 PM IST
Tech startups demand engineers who can think out-of-the-boxLast year we witnessed software product startups attracting tech professionals with the ability to think out-of-the-box and with an entrepr...
27 Feb, 2015, 05.27 PM IST
147 B-schools shut down in 2013-14The number of postgraduate diploma programmes in management institutes has also dropped from 606 to 600 in the last academic year.
04 Feb, 2015, 10.09 AM IST
- Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2013: Industry expects local varsities to take cue from foreign peers
Close to 140 foreign universities are participating in the summit, many of which are likely to sign agreements for partnerships with local ...
10 Jan, 2013, 03.31 AM IST
- New medical syllabus to stress practical skills
Medical Council of India (MCI) is close to finalising a brand new curriculum for both undergraduate (UG) and post-graduate (PG) medical edu...
06 Mar, 2011, 04.19 AM IST