Pallavi Smart
Principal Correspondent at The Indian Express
Journalist | The Indian Express, Mumbai.
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3 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Pallavi Smart
In a major shift in its admissions process, Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) has decided to eliminate interviews and to select students for the 2025-26 academic year solely on the basis of their marks in the Central University Entrance Test (CUET). The decision has attracted strong opposition from students who claim that scrapping interviews would compromise the inclusive and diverse character of the TISS campus.
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3 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Pallavi Smart
But according to the latest Government Resolution (GR) issued Wednesday by the school education department, the SMCs will not only stitch and distribute uniforms but now will also decide on its colour and design. This reinstates the original practice followed for many years, before the concept of centralised uniform was implemented this academic year.
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3 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Pallavi Smart
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Mumbai will introduce two new postgraduate programmes (PGPs) from the beginning of the academic year 2025-26: urban logistics and infrastructure management, and public policy and administration. Both these will be one-year executive courses. The institute is currently in the process of finalising the course curriculum along with industry experts.
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3 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Pallavi Smart
From the upcoming academic year that will start in June, Class 1 students of Maharashtra State Board will have new textbooks based on the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) curriculum, which is primarily used by schools affialted to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). This is Maharashtra government’s broader initiative to adopt the CBSE model of school education, which follows NCERT curriculum.
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3 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Pallavi Smart
According to teachers with implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, there are umpteen options of higher education for students post SSC. Anil Bornare, leader from BJP Teachers’ Association who has written to SCERT about restarting the service, said, “Taking such services privately is not affordable for a huge set of SSC students in the state. The government offered a service which is free-of-cost and has been really helpful for students across the state.
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Sydenham #college in #Mumbai has formed a dedicated alumni cell for more concentrated efforts of alumni relations, an established practice in institutes such as IITs and IIMs.
Autonomous institutes get flooded with alumni support but there are few examples of Govt colleges getting the much needed alumni support. @NileshShah68 and few others came fwd to support Sydenham college. @Pallavi_Smart reports https://t.co/f9a2qbGKkU
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