ISRO staff bodies seek clarification on the trajectory of privatisation
Nine employee associations at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have written to the space agency’s Chairperson, V. Narayanan, seeking official clarification on the proposed transfer of its manufacturing and operational functions to private entities. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Nine employee associations at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have written to the space […]
Space Wrap newsletter: Will ISRO be part of NASA’s moonshot?
A year after the launch of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission and the Axiom-4 mission that sent astronaut-candidate Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station, the U.S. space agency has formally extended an invitation to India to join its ambitious ‘Moon Base’ programme under the Artemis Accords. At the ninth meeting […]
Bihar Unveils Teacher Training University and AI Partnership with Tech Giants, ETEducation
Bihar CM Choudhary said a “Teacher Training University” would be established for better training and capacity development of teachers Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, in a Teachers’ Day message posted on X, announced a set of education-sector resolutions by the state government, including a new teacher training university and a separate pay scale for honorarium-based […]
CM Revanth Reddy’s Vision for Quality Education, ETEducation
Telangana government to introduce new “education policy”: CM Revanth Reddy Vikarabad (Telangana): Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy affirmed that the state government will introduce a new Education Policy soon. Stating that the government was taking big initiatives to provide quality education, skill upgradation and innovation, the Chief Minister called upon the entire teaching community […]
Valles Marineris flood may have raised ancient Martian sea level by 34 metres: study
Valles Marineris stretches more than 4,000 km across Mars’s equatorial region and is thought to have once contained extensive bodies of water, including paleolakes. Researchers estimate that these waterbodies contained about 2,369 trillion cubic metres, with simulations suggesting that roughly half was released during the catastrophic breach. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The recent catastrophic […]
Recorded Teaching System for Classes 9-12, ETEducation
Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu announced the introduction of a recorded teaching system for students. Guwahati, Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu has announced the introduction of a recorded teaching system for students from Classes 9 to 12 as part of the state government’s efforts to strengthen classroom learning through technology. The initiative is aimed at […]
Karnataka govt to seek stakeholder views before finalising education reforms, ETEducation
Karnataka CM Shivakumar as govt forms panel on student issues, education reforms Bengaluru: The state govt is planning to seek views from students, parents, education experts and other stakeholders before finalising reforms in the education sector. A decision to this effect was taken at the first meeting of the cabinet sub-committee on students’ issues and […]
Delhi CM Rekha Gupta Advocates for Cleanliness, Health, and Education Improvements by MCD, ETEducation
Delhi: CM Rekha Gupta asks MCD to focus on cleanliness, health, education New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has stated that the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) must play an effective role in improving primary education and health services, alongside infrastructure development, sanitation, waste disposal, and environmental improvements to make the national capital a […]
Fixing the holes in the education system
Imagine a classroom where you are given the space to explore and understand concepts on your own with the guidance of a teacher and the internet. Imagine the amount of knowledge which will open up if this non-traditional education style is adopted. That is exactly what Professor Sugata Mitra, a computer scientist and educational theorist, […]
Arvind Gupta: Seeing the simple things around us!
It was in about 430 BCE that the crucial, mind-altering, breathtaking idea of ‘everything’ being made up of atoms emerged. A cheerful Greek philosopher, Democritus, who spent a truckload of time observing nature, eventually figured out the foundational maxim of many sciences today and coined the Latin word “atomos”, which is where “atom” comes from. […]