MOOC in India and Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is aimed at unlimited participation and open access to education via internet. Apart from traditional course materials such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions ..

Improving Learning Outcomes

In India, there is high level of inequality in learning wherein only a small proportion i.e., the privileged students are able to acquire good learning. Some of the promising strategies which have been identified by various education experts are summed ..

Role of Private Sector in Education

Education is very important as it makes an individual empowering. Self-help is easier for an educated person than one who is not educated. Most of our premier institutions of education have been funded by the government (State or Central) and ..

Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) Phase III (2016-20)

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs recently approved the third phase of the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme—a joint effort between the central government and the World Bank for improving the quality of education in engineering colleges. The total project ..

TSR Subramanian Committee Recommendations on Education

In 2015, Narendra Modi Government had set up a committee under former Cabinet Secretary TSR Subramanian to chalk out a new education policy. This committee had submitted its report in May, 2016. Key Recommendations The committee had presented its report ..

National Education Policies 1968 and 1986

So far, two National Education Policies have been in force in India. Third one is the recent draft. National Education Policy, 1968 First such policy had come in 1968 under Indira Gandhi government. Prior to this policy, a resolution in ..

Draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2016

The draft of National Education Policy (NEP) 2016 was released recently by the MHRD and suggestions were invited on the same from the public domain. The focus of the policy is to address gender discrimination, the creation of educational tribunals, and ..

Draft Indian National Defence University (INDU) Bill, 2015

In August 2016, a Draft Indian National Defence University (INDU) Bill, 2015 was put online and suggestions were invited from public for the proposed university. Background The idea of having a National level Defense University is not new. In 1967, ..