Digital Education: A Boon Or A Bane

Bhubaneswar: The Covid-19 pandemic has given our education system a completely new horizon by introducing the digital method of the teaching-learning process. Even though it has been started in compulsion and initially treated as a shortcut or temporary substitute for continuing education of the students designed to go with COVID appropriate behaviour, now it has…

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CollegeDekho closes Series B funding round with US$ 35 million

Gurugram: CollegeDekho, India’s largest college admissions and higher education services platform, closes its Series B funding with Disrupt ADQ and QIC coming on board recently. The USD 35 million (~INR 260 crore) round has been led by Winter Capital, ETS Strategic Capital – the private equity investments arm of ETS (creator of the TOEFL® tests…

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Quality of Education is Declining in the Greed of Promotion

Bhubaneswar: There is an inextricable link between research and development. It is futile to expect development from any field without researching that. Research is being done at various academies across the country. In earlier times, it used to take many years to develop a vaccine for any disease. In that case, the development of the…

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The Need and Importance of Libraries

Bhubaneswar: Libraries are extremely important for the intellectual development of children.  Because where there is no progressive discussion on knowledge and no encouragement for intellectual development, superstitions take its call there. It is believed that a class room is far more sacred than a temple.  From the ancient times the libraries has retained its greatness….

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Odisha Allocated Rs 218 Cr to Promote Online Education

Bhubaneswar: The central government has granted Rs 218 crore under the 15th Finance Commission grant for higher education for the purpose of flourishing digital education and learning process as well as restructuring professional courses in regional languages for higher education in Odisha. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan informed in a written presentation in the Lok…

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Digital Education Is A Hindrance To Achive Education For Marginalized section

Bhubaneswar: According to the 2011 Indian census, there are 81,44,012 rural homes, of which 29,27,122 (36%) have electricity and 52,890 (48%) do not (64 percent ). Aside from power, bad phone and internet infrastructure in rural regions is a major issue. More than 20% (11,000) of Odisha’s villages lack cellphone coverage (Economic Survey, 2018-19). According…

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