Prioritizing safety amidst COVID-19 and its new variant Omicron increasingly rapidly in number, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur has created a bio-bubble for the convocation ceremony. As per the officials of IIT Kanpur, the convocation will be held in a hybrid mode on Tuesday, December 28. Last year, the convocation ceremony was held virtually. […]
Tag Archives: Education
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The Delhi cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposal to set up the first Teachers’ University in the national capital.Addressing a press conference, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that the ‘Delhi Teachers’ University’ Bill will be tabled in Delhi Vidhan Sabha in the upcoming session. What is Teachers’ University? The Delhi CM said that this […]
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University Of Warwick: Under A Quarter Of Firms Report That Introducing AI Has Led To A Loss Of Jobs
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Less than a quarter of firms introducing AI technology over the past five years believe it has led to a net loss of jobs, a new survey led by academics at the University of Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research and the University of Sussex Business School reveals. The study is the first survey of its […]
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India’s social sector has been evolving in the past decade, with students making drastic shifts from their original streams of engineering, science, literature, medicine, business, and so on. The attraction is towards tackling the country’s social issues like gender inequality, poverty, inequitable education, and lack of access to basic amenities among others. No longer is […]
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Indian Institute of Management Bangalore got the EQUIS accreditation for a period of 5 years. This is the second time that IIM Bangalore has received accreditation for 5 years, the longest period that EQUIS offers. EQUIS, is the leading international system of quality assessment, improvement, and accreditation of higher education institutions in management and business […]
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IIT Mandi Scientist Creates math Models to Find out How Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Affects us
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Acollaborative research team comprising scientists from IIT Mandi and National Brain Research Centre, India and University at Buffalo, USA, performed mathematical simulation studies on non-invasive brain stimulation techniques. The results of the team’s recent work in the area have been published as an abstract in the journal, Brain Stimulation. The abstract has been co-authored by […]
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IISc Bangalore Replaces Ceiling fans with Wall-Mounted Fans to Prevent Student Suicides in Hostels
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The management at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has started replacing ceiling fans with wall-mounted fans at its hostels. Students have also been restricted from entering terraces and narrow balconies. The reason for this move is to prevent student suicides. Four students of the institute allegedly died by suicide in their hostel rooms […]
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Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu recently said that a country cannot claim itself to be developed when even 15 percent of the country’s population is not educated while stressing the need for increased attention to adult education. He expressed his views on the issues after he presented the Nehru and Tagore Literacy Awards, to individuals […]
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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras have developed a class of fast and efficient ‘motion planning’ algorithms which can think like human beings and enable autonomous aerial, ground, or surface vehicles to navigate obstacle-cluttered environments. According to the team, the algorithms have been developed on the novel notion of ‘Generalised Shape Expansion’ […]
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Education in 2022: 4 Things to look forward to and how it is Going to be Different from Previous year
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The future of education looks as promising as never before. The two years of the pandemic have paved the way towards newer possibilities and innovative dimensions in learning. The NEP 2020 has laid down many structural and functional changes and updations are on the cards. The education industry stood up with the help of technology […]