Even as the world is attempting to come back on its feet in the global pandemic of Covid-19, many students would be embarking on their new journey of beginning college life. After spending 10 plus years in schools, students aspire to join a college, university with an opinion that higher education shapes one’s career and that is the only way to grow. However, there have been discussions in the past and even today on the need for redefining higher education matching with the current market demands by bringing in the requisite innovations into its curriculum and structure.
As humans, we do our best to take precautions and protect ourselves against life’s uncertainties. However, there will be times when things are not in your control. What will you do then? How will your family manage the financial liabilities without you? These concerns get amplified if you are the sole breadwinner of the family. But did you know that you can hedge this risk by directly investing in the best term life insurance plan?
In the last eight weeks, the number of deaths in India due to COVID-19 has so far been well below the forecasts and predictions of Western experts. While the death toll continues to soar in the USA and Europe, India has achieved a remarkable feat by containing the spread of Covid-19 with imposition of a timely emergency nationwide lockdown.
Overview: Vijaybhoomi University is India’s first Liberal Professional University, which uses the liberal-professional framework of education to build a unique curriculum aligned to Industry 4.0. The curriculum facilitates the process of self-discovery in the initial year and thereafter choice of majors and minors to prepare oneself in high-demand careers in data science, artificial intelligence, business, law, and design. The university is in Karjat, Greater Mumbai, and nurtures holistic, socially responsible, and continuously employable professionals who can make a positive difference in the world.
This is a crucial moment of the corona pandemic in India and around the world, and IIHMR University has an imperative to both serve and lead. IIHMR University is closely monitoring the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and our top priority remains the health, safety, and well-being of our community, on and off-campus. We are taking decisive, informed action to limit the spread of COVID-19 while ensuring the continuity of our teaching and research mission. We have begun transitioning to virtual instruction for students. The goal of these changes is to minimize the need to gather in large groups and spend prolonged time in proximity to each other in spaces such as classrooms, dining halls, and residential buildings. Together we will propel the University’s collective work to confront, understand, and solve all the major public health challenges we all face.
Technology has disrupted every sector and it has become more significant now during the lockdown where everyone is working remotely. At such a time, edutech companies has come to the fore. Before lockdown it was looked at as a complimentary tool to the traditional methods of education. However, with the lockdown and schools being shut for over 2 months, more and more parents and teachers are exploring technology solutions for education and trying to bridge the gaps between classrooms and students.
If you are a student struggling to write an essay, this article will come in very handy. A professional writer has agreed to share his experience in the niche of essay writing to make the process much easier and more interesting for you. He will be answering some of the most common questions students ask when they need to write a high-quality paper and can’t seem to find the right answers to start working.
The global disruption caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. According to UNESCO, there have been 177 temporary country-wide closures of educational institutions across the globe. This has affected nearly 1.3 billion students. While the immediate safety of students should be prioritised, we cannot underplay the fact that the pandemic is holding back student development.
Virtual classes was a popular form of distance learning or an option for furthering knowledge in post-secondary education. With the sudden closure of educational institutes and the following lockdown, online learning through virtual classrooms became a necessary tool for furthering education.
Choosing a career after your class 12 board exams is a daunting decision. While the traditional careers like medicine and engineering are viable options for students who pursue science at the senior secondary level, the best options for commerce students are a little different. Realistically speaking, children today have ten times more career options as compared to their parents.
Though maths is an interesting subject, it’s a hard nut to crack for a majority. That is why teachers lookout for different strategies to make teaching more creative, funny, and engaging to invoke interest in the kids. Gamification and math puzzles are among the most tried out techniques in today’s classrooms and the idea of maths jokes is not novel.
In normal times, children are mostly occupied with their social world outside of family whether it be their school or tuition classes or any other extra-curricular class. And when at home, they are busy finishing up assignments and coping up with their syllabus. But now with the covid-19 lockdown, it’s an opportunity for kids to grow beyond their syllabus as they get to spend more time with their parents. Here are some activities that parents can have with the children:
Doing a part-time EMBA (executive MBA) via face-to-face online is a big investment in both time and money, typically over an 18 – 24 month time-frame. However, calculating the return on the investment might be huge given that it is intended to help people become a better generalist manager and then transition to become a more effective leader. Therefore, an EMBA's ongoing investment benefits can be determined and calculated over many decades. It can help sharpen your leadership and decision-making skills. Here’s some examples about how this is done:
The global outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has put forth several challenges for parents. They are juggling between work, household chores, childcare and online learning. In view of the rising stress for parents, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has shared some tips to help manage children's education while at home.
Crisis is a state wherein everyone gets the chance to extract opportunity to make the best use of time. It is in these moments that we get chance to test our own abilities. We become potentially strong to grab the opportunity presented to us through the Almighty. One should always be strong enough to change with changing times.
Rapid technological change and new global challenges are pushing the boundaries of the traditional domains of social science analysis. In the new BA Honours program in Political Science at the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA), O. P. Jindal Global University (JGU), we take a holistic, interdisciplinary, and skills-focused approach to the study of politics to equip our students to deal with these challenges as analysts, practitioners, and leaders.
Change is the only constant as said by many learned professionals and moving away from your comfort zone only makes you accept challenges beneficial for your own future.
Face-to-face education is in a quagmire due to large-scale outbreaks of global pandemic COVID 19. The education sector in India is worst affected along with health crises across the country. An estimated 184 million school children are out of formal schooling, examinations are in a halt, evaluation work is postponed, new admission process in all educational instructions are in cold storage. As a country of 1.35 billion population, we must think to engage our school going students, which is 20 million much more than students attending colleges and universities.
Following a directive of the central and state governments, all schools and educational institutions have been required to shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic up till April 14. Most of the exams including board exams, medical and engineering exams have either been postponed/rescheduled or cancelled. The only resort students can turn to in order to continue their education and finish the syllabus is online learning.
Good Bye! I waved blissfully to my school friends with a twinkle in my eyes as I deboarded the bus. Humming away to the notes of ‘let it go…’, I skittled my way to the doorbell, tapping away at everything in sheer glee! Yippee, no exams, holidays begin.
India will be touching a whopping USD 5 trillion economy in the coming years by generating more business within the country, through avenues such as emerging startups, loan through Mudra Scheme and ease of doing business spanning across industries and verticals. However, alarming facts emerged from the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2019 that ranked 117 countries based on hunger; amongst which, India was ranked at the 102nd position and was the lowest-ranked among all the other BRICS nations. GHI rank is calculated based on children who are under 5 years of age and have inadequate weight vis-a-vis their recorded height. There are significant facts supporting the impact of starvation on an education system, wherein underdeveloped minds are unable to access basic education due to the lack of proper infrastructure and brain development. WHO reported that there are 155 million children under the age of five who are underweight for their height and there are around 50 million more, stunted children. Due to their condition and inadequate physical growth they are unable to read till the age of 8 years.
Let’s face it - these are unprecedented times! The past 2 weeks have led India to deep-dive into a digital learning, study-from-home model. While it’s natural for you to feel confused & worried with this rapid escalation, the real test of this model lies with how well you adapt to it! Yes, you reading this piece!
Fashion is an ever-changing ecosystem; what we see in vogue today may not be there tomorrow and then the same trend may re-appear after a few years. There are various factors that affect this semi-gradual change, and thus young aspirants who are interested in working in the fashion industry ought to understand its interlinked, multi-channel processes.
At a time when people are becoming aware of the need to stay away from infected surfaces, the importance of keeping floors clean and infection-free cannot be overemphasized. There is a need to keep the floor tiles as clean as possible. Thankfully tile makers are using advanced technologies to keep the floors clean and microbe free, when hygiene meets beauty and durability.
How safe is your home? We are not talking of external threats but of internal threats like bacteria, algae and other microorganisms. Unlike floors and tabletops, there are several inconvenient and inaccessible surfaces, especially walls within our homes (and offices) that harbor bacteria leading to fomite transmission, that is, transmission of infectious diseases by bacteria left on surfaces.
The nation wide lockdown due to pandemic Covid-19 has initially thrown higher education in deep crisis but the universities and many colleges in India have been able to adopt online teaching from home. It is all the more gratifying that the young students have found online classes both interesting and greatly satisfying, says eminent Academician Prof PB Sharma, vice chancellor of Amity University Gurugram.
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