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New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The IIT Mandi has taken a major initiative to start an academic programme on Indian knowledge system (IKS) to address mental health

New Delhi, May 31: The IIT Mandi has taken a major initiative to start an academic programme on Indian knowledge system (IKS) to address mental health issues, besides using scientific innovations.

In order to inspire, carry out, and track advancement in colleges, universities across the nation, the UGC chairman announced the launch of a new portal named UTSAH

The University Grants Commission (UGC) is working in line with New Education Policy 2020 to support universities and colleges to transform higher education into world class education.

Girls have once again outshined boys in the annual convocation of Ranchi University. Girls bag the top honors with the maximum number of gold medalists. Out of total 81 toppers in various branches and departments, the gold medalist girls numbered 50. The 36th Convocation of Ranchi University was

Without rigorous appraisal of our existing school systems, with studies on the preparedness of the present teacher education system, one wonders how such a major shift has been propounded.

It will produce a generation of students that will hold anything in the ‘western knowledge’ system with scorn

Unlike Europe, where schoolgoers are exposed to Aristotle, Plato, Descartes, John Locke and so on in high school, Indian children are rarely taught about our home-grown philosophical traditions, be it vaisheshika, nyaya, mimamsa or samkhya

All references to India's first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad have also been deleted from the revised political science textbook for Class XI.

Credits are essentially a “recognition that a learner has completed a prior course of learning, corresponding to a qualification at a given level”. In other words, it is a way of quantifying learning outcomes.