| Volume V, Issue XXI, June 28, 2010, Weekly eNewsletter |
 FEATURED STORY
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Open and Distance Learning :
Providing Boundary-less Education
Open educational resources coupled with the increasing capabilities of the Internet would offer new dimensionality to distance education by facilitating extensive access to globally created educational resources to serve the knowledge needs of diverse communities... |
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FEATURED INTERVIEW
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Technical Capacity Building ICT Inculcation
in Teacher Education, Interview with
Prof Mohammad Akhtar Siddiqui
The NCTE announced its resolve to take a number of initiatives to regulate the growth of teacher education institutions in the country and to ensure maintenance of norms and standards in these institutions. The norms and standards have been revised based on felt need...
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TOP NEWS
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INR 10 crores to education in Haryana's Mewat
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is to soon start a certificate programme in water harvesting from this academic session to train people in techniques of water harvesting...
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K- 12
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Protest against census duties by Jharkhand teachers
Black bands are being worn by the teachers in Jharkhand while attending schools to protest the government's move to make them conduct census operations, a teachers' union official reported recently...
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Five year plan to support 107 more KVs
Recently the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved a proposal for setting up of 107 new Kendriya Vidyalayas during the remaining period of the Eleventh Five Year Plan...
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HIGHER EDUCATION
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More Disabled friendly DU campus
This year the number of seats being offered to the differently-abled candidates has risen from 1,220 last year to 1,620 this year...
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Nod to NCHER from educational advisory body
On June 19, 2010, the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) mulled and endorsed setting up of the proposed National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) as an apex/ regulatory body...
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CORPORATE NEWS
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Intel pacts with Northeast Council
Intel Corporation, the world's largest chipmaker mentioned that it has signed an agreement with the Northeastern Council (NEC) with the aim of training teachers and promoting the use of technology in education...
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US education initiative receives funds from Investment guru
Peter Lynch, the legendary investor, is donating US$20 million to train school principals in Boston, in order to make them equipped with the latest in a growing list of high net worth individuals to publicly champion philanthropy...
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