Author Archives: Mayank Arora

  Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has conveyed the following concerns to the HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar: 1. Textbooks should not be used as “ideological battleground” between the Left and the Right 2. Books should only be children-centric 3. Books must not be a platform for any political point-scoring   “Textbooks confusing, incompetent and […]

  The HRD Ministry has set up a new committee to make the final draft on the National Education Policy (NEP). The nine-member panel will be headed by former ISRO chief & Padma Vibhushan awardee K Kasturirangan. “The council will start its work with immediate effect. In an exhaustive exercise carried for last 30 months, […]

IT company NYSA has been blacklisted by the Punjab government for three years in December 2016.  NYSA runs the First Year Junior College (FYJC) admissions portal in Maharashtra that was in a mess recently. WHY NYSA BLACKLISTED Punjab government’s decision to blacklist NYSA was taken after the company allegedly failed to furnish proof of having […]

GST is the new-age education. And keeping this in view, a two day seminar was organized on GST by ICFAI concluded on June 17th and 18th this year. It was aptly named ” GST: A Way forward.” Justice Challa Kodandaram the Chief Guest at the Two Day Seminar said, “The concept of GST, ceded in […]

It was a hat trick of wins for the ICFAI Business School (IBS), Hyderabad in the area of global case study competitions recently. One of these cases is “Conflicting Business Approaches of Two Generations: The Otsuka Family Showdown”. It has be done and written by Professor Debapratim Purkayastha and Ms. Ranjana Tiwari. This case has […]

Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Rajiv Pratap Rudy has promised one crore skilled labour in 2017-18. This happened at the launch of BW People which is the latest community magazine of BW Businessworld. This magazine provides insights in the HR ecosystem Can’t create employment but employability: Rudy Speaking at the launch, Rudy pointed out […]

  What more can be a better idea to boost the career prospective of students, than to launch new courses! Yes,, your heard it right. The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) will offer 159 courses for its July to November, 2017 session. The Highlights 1.Among these 159 courses, 43 are old and 116 […]

Will reduce financial burden on the parents Parents of those pursuing professional courses like BTech, MTech, MCA, MBA are usually facing the burden of course fees. At times either their dreams to get their children are even trashed after being unable to afford the same or have to struggle throughout the duration of the course […]

Given the huge demand for doctors trained in emergency medicine, Residency Programs passing themselves off as masters courses have become a multi-crore industry in India. Many private hospitals are running such courses charging Rs 11-19 lakh for a three-year course. Ironically, this ensures that the monthly stipend of about Rs 25,000 paid to these young […]

Attempt to bridge gender divide MUMBAI: ‘Congratulations on your earning a rank in the prestigious JEE(Advanced) 2017. You may be wondering what it is like being a girl student in an IIT….,’ reads a mail that IITs has sent to the 7,137 girls who qualified in JEE (Advanced) 2017. This is a first ever attempt […]