| Rank | School |
| 1 | Maharishi Vidya Mandir |
| 2 | Brilliant Public School |
| 3 | The Jain International School |
| 4 | St. Francis Sr Sec School |
| 5 | St Xavier’s High School |
| 6 | Delhi Public School |
| Rank | School |
| 1 | Maharishi Vidya Mandir |
| 2 | Delhi Public School |
| 3 | The Jain International School |
| 4 | St. Francis Sr Sec School |
| 5 | St Xavier’s High School |
| 6 | Brilliant Public School |
Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, announced the launch of MyPedia, an advanced programme that aims to transform the education delivery across school classrooms in India. It is an integrated learning programme that promises measurable improvement in the cognitive skills of the learner.
Based on 5i learning process, the focus of MyPedia is to actively engage students in the learning process, help develop their critical thinking skills, stronger understanding of concepts and create meaningful learning experiences.
It is an academic partnership programme, where there is a measurement and tracking of the stated programme objectives and continuous partnering and enablement of the key stakeholders of the learning process – teachers and parents with learners at the centre.
MyPedia comprises teaching plans which bring together the course book, workbook, videos and assessments. Learning is extended beyond classrooms through a HomeApp, which connects parents to the learning process. Students can scan images in the textbooks using a smartphone and watch these videos, providing them personalised and anytime, anywhere learning. The application can be downloaded on any android mobile phone. Parents can access digital resources, reports on daily assessment and monitor the school progress of their children.
MyPedia helps students integrate their learning across subjects, allowing them to learn in a more comprehensive manner, reason abstractly and quantitatively. Its unique features help students understand different learning layers, where each layer comprises the skills and concepts that a student needs to learn in a particular grade. These solid layers of concepts built over time helps students to break away from compartmentalisation of subjects.
It combines the best in curriculum & content, digital & technology, assessment framework and training. MyPedia’s assessment architecture goes deep to cull out learning gaps, even at a sub-topic level, which in traditional methods often go unnoticed. This in turn equips educators to provide quick and individual-level remedial interventions, resulting in enhanced conceptual clarity and improvement in overall performance of young ones.
Speaking at the occasion, Deepak Mehrotra, Managing Director, Pearson India said, “We, at Pearson, are committed to help learners make measurable progress in their lives through learning. In line with our learner centric approach, we have introduced MyPedia, an innovative integrated learning solution that focuses on improving conceptual understanding of students and enables them to continue learning even beyond the four walls of a classroom.”
Ujjwal Singh, Vice President, Product – K12, Pearson India said, “Today’s learners are growing up in an increasingly complex world. Developing critical thinking skills through programmes such as MyPedia will equip them to deal with the challenges they confront in a dynamic digital and information age. Such a programme is imperative not only for students but also for teachers. Through MyPedia, schools and parents can be assured of measurable improvement in thinking skills of the learner.”
“We at Pearson believe that learning is a never-ending process. We are committed to help learners through comprehensive and interactive platforms such as MyPedia that is designed to take learning beyond the pass-fail binary or the four walls of a classroom. It is another step to reiterate our ambition in creating an environment conducive to holistic and all round development of students.” said SG Ramananda, Vice President, K-12 Inside Services, Pearson India.
Bringing together diverse disciplines in a comprehensive manner for students and teachers, the programme enables deeper understanding of complex associations and influences within a topic. The product also allows parents to seamlessly communicate with teachers and equips them to track their child’s progress and lend the required support. A systematic teaching plan for teachers in MyPedia allows them to plan yearly academics in a strategic and effective manner. Students will benefit by connecting new learning experiences to their existing body of knowledge, assumptions and understandings and acquire skills needed in an ever-evolving information and digital age.
NIIT Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance (IFBI) announced the launch of its first batch for Certificate Programme in Banking Sales and Marketing (CPBSM) in association with Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB). CPBSM is an exclusive programme that aims to build a pool of probationary officers (PO) with marketing skills.
The one-month certificate programme is designed for training and recruitment of PO to be posted in sales and marketing of various deposit, loan, insurance products of the Bank under various functional verticals. This programme is a blend of core domain knowledge and usable skill-set requirements like sales and marketing, technology familiarity and customer handling. To start with, the programme will be available in select locations including Thrissur, Trivandrum and Coimbatore, as per immediate requirements.
Speaking on this significant partnership, Bimal Jain, President NIIT IFBI said, “As pioneers in the BFSI industry in India, NIIT IFBI has been working towards creating professionally trained workforce for the BFSI industry. This strategic partnership with the Catholic Syrian Bank has been tailor-made to create a large pool of industry-ready talent who would be offered challenging career opportunities with the Bank.”
According to a press release, this programme has been specifically designed to develop and empower graduates with robust skill sets and vital insights needed to undertake marketing banking business as a PO in banks. Graduates/post graduates with minimum of 60 per cent marks in their graduation and less than 28 years of age can apply for this course. On successful completion of the programme, students will be placed with CSB.
The selection to the programme will be through in-house screening process with final interview by CSB officials. After successful completion of the probation period of two years, the PO will be absorbed as Assistant Manager (Grade-1) and will be awarded with the programme certificate.
An interactive programme, organised by the emirate’s human capital developer, Abu Dhabi Technology Development Committee (TDC), in science learning that covers human biology, space technology, astronomy and robotics has reached out to 32,370 pupils across the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
A total of 882 workshops were conducted as part of the initiative called Lema? (means WHY in Arabic). The programme involved 120 school visits in 2015.
The initiative is aimed at getting students more excited about science and technology through demonstrations that go beyond the formal classroom setting.
A new workshop called ‘Radio Studio’ was introduced in 2015, focusing on information and communications technology, where pupils learnt about how sound travels when emitted from a radio. During the workshop, students recorded and transmitted their own radio broadcast into space, an activity linked with the future UAE mission to Mars.
Since it was launched in 2012, more than 65,000 pupils in grades 3 to 7, in 290 public and private schools in the emirate, have participated in the programme.
In March 2015, the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) introduced changes to the emirate’s school curriculum to place more emphasis on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects.
Austria’s Modul University Vienna’s first campus in Dubai will become fully operational by September 2016, announced Dubai Investments.
Spread across 25,000 square feet, the new campus is Modul’s first outside Austria and will be built at Dubai Multi Commodities Centre in Jumeirah Lake Towers.
With the campus being fully operational in September, the admissions will start in the first quarter of next year.
The Modul University Dubai campus will offer undergraduate, graduate and MBA degree programmes, including BBA and MBA in hospitality and tourism management, Bachelor of Science degree in International Management, MBA in New Media Management and Masters of Science degree in Sustainable Development Management, offered by Tourism College Modul.
In addition, short-term vocational courses, spanning six months to one year duration, will also be offered for hospitality professionals in the UAE. All the courses will be taught in English and accredited in both Austria and the UAE.
Shripad Yesso Naik, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH, laid the foundation stone for the construction of Research Institute of Homoeopathy and Unani under the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH) and Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine (CCRUM) respectively at Kharghar, Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra. These organisations are apex bodies for research under the Ministry of AYUSH. This Institute will be a premier institute in the state of Maharashtra engaged in research activities in Homoeopathy and Unani medicine.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said that high quality research in Homoeopathy and Unani medicine is essential for the growth, further development and their scientific usage in health care systems. He emphasised that the Ministry of AYUSH is committed for the strengthening of all existing research institutes. This upcoming institute is a significant step of the Government for inculcating research aptitude in students of various colleges already functional in Maharashtra.
The Minister assured full cooperation of the Central government in the development of AYUSH systems in Maharashtra. He emphasised that Government of Maharashtra should utilize provisions of centrally sponsored schemes and establish Homoeopathic and Unani colleges in the Government sector. There is need to give employment to Homoeopathic and Unani doctors at primary health care, the Minister added.
These regional institutes of Homoeopathy and Unani Medicine will be completed within 18 months. When these institutes will be fully operational, there shall be provision of world class Homoeopathy and Unani treatment, apart from undertaking research in incurable diseases like HIV/AIDS, Cancer, chronic skin diseases like psoriasis, vitiligo etc. These institutes shall have state of the art laboratories and investigation facilities where patients can be given treatment with modern outlook.
Deakin University, one of Australia’s premier centres of higher education has entered into an agreement with GE India Technology Centre to undertake collaborative activities and research projects in India.
Over 5300 researchers and engineers work at GE’s Technology Centres in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Chennai.
The collaboration is under the Deakin India Research Initiative which would involve students to be based at GE premises while being enrolled for PhD programme at Deakin University, Australia. The key areas of research would include:
Speaking on the occasion Prof Peter Hodgson, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Strategic Partnerships at Deakin University, Australia said, “The partnership with GE India Technology Centre is representative of Deakin’s investments in R&D in India with global collaborators. This relationship is a testament to our commitment to harness the best and the brightest from India as well as the growing recognition of India as a global centre for technology research.”
Mariasundaram Antony, General Manager, India Engineering Operations, GE Power, stated, “The initiation of this partnership between GE and Deakin will open up opportunities to collaborate on cutting edge research areas of mutual interest. I am confident that this relationship will continue to strengthen in the years to come.”
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked all universities to ensure ‘Online Admission System’ in place from the next academic session.
Ved Prakash, Chairman, UGC has asked all the universities to give ‘top priority’ to put in place an ‘Online Admission System’ for all programmes offered by them in the next academic session. The UGC chief has sought details of the progress made by them in this regard.
The UGC chairman, in a letter to Vice Chancellors of various universities, said that the progress achieved by the varsities in implementing the online admissions will be reviewed in a meeting scheduled in early January.
He said that establishing online admission system will not only ensure greater efficiency but also promote transparency in the functioning of the various institutions. He further added that it would also help students and parents in making informed choices.
For other universities, where the processes are not online or only partially online, the UGC chairman has asked them to indicate the steps proposed by them for converting the process into a complete online mode from academic session 2016-17.
PwC India and NIIT University (NU) have entered into a strategic partnership towards creating a trained talent pool of Cyber Security professionals in India. To this end, academic experts from NU and senior professionals from PwC India have co-created a two-year work-integrated specialised Master’s Programme in Cyber Security.
The Master’s Programme in Cyber Security is amongst the first programmes that blend academic and professional education, with the industry player PwC India being an equal partner in developing and delivering the programme. The key driver in this programme is industry-led research in the Cyber Security space.
Cyber Security market currently at $1 billion, is expected to grow to $35 billion by 2025. The demand for skilled professionals in the space is very high. This demand is coming from domestic companies spending in the country; multinational companies investing in India; increasing government activity in the cyber and cyber security space; and information technology firms bringing in work from clients.
On the occasion, Rajendra S Pawar, Chairman NIIT Group and Founder NU, said, “Technology has changed the way businesses are run and has brought along with it unique challenges and threats. In today’s digitised environment securing our cyberspace has become a priority for businesses and citizens across the world. This calls for a team of trained professionals who are equipped to combat the challenges that are posed by hackers every day. Our partnership with PwC India is a step in that direction.”
Deepak Kapoor, Chairman, PwC India said, “Cyber Security is a major focus area and the growth driver for PwC India. With this programme with NU, PwC India is collaborating with academia to bring industry-ready talent into the market, readily employable with required customized skills set.”
First year of the Master’s Programme in Cyber Security will be held at the Neemrana Campus of NU, followed by an internship at PwC India under the supervision of NU faculty. The programme will emphasise on Security Analytics, Threat Intelligence, Industrial Control System and Vulnerability Analysis and also draw on practitioner-experts from PwC India to ensure the right blend of academic concepts and industry application. PwC has worked with NU to devise the curriculum for the programme. In addition, PwC India and NU will co-create specialised laboratories at the University, with advanced hardware and software required for the programme.
The first batch of the Master’s Programme in Cyber Security will commence from July 2016. The selection process will be stringent inviting applications from candidates having technical bend of mind. Applicants should have four years Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/Technology in Computer Science or IT (those who are completing their Degree in the current academic year are also eligible) or Master’s Degree holders in Computer Science or IT or Mathematics and Statistics (those completing their Degree in the current academic year are also eligible). It is mandatory for applicants to have secured at least 60 per cent or above in their 10th and 12th standard boards and in Bachelor’s and Master’s degree.
Tree House Education & Accessories, a pre-school chain, has decided to merge with Zee Learn Ltd, the education arm of Essel Group, in an all-stock deal.
According to the deal, Tree House’s shareholders will get 53 shares of Zee Learn for every 10 shares held. The companies cited that they have similar line of business activities as the reason behind the amalgamation.
Early this month, the two firms had disclosed that they were in talks for a possible merger. The deal will make the combined entity the largest pre-school chain in India.
Zee Learn operates the country’s largest pre-school chain under the Kidzee brand with 1,350 centres, entirely through franchisees, and the second-largest K-12 school chain under Mount Litera with 87 centres. Zee Learn also runs 31 institutes of vocational training under ZEE Institute of Creative Art and a centre under Zee Institute of Media Arts.
PE-backed Tree House had 720 pre-schools in 103 cities. Of these, 611 are self-operated while the rest are franchisees. It also offers educational services and runs 24 K-12 schools.
