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JEE/ NEET, THE WHOLE ENTRANCE FESTIVAL AND DUMMY SCHOOLS !

 JEE/ NEET, THE WHOLE ENTRANCE FESTIVAL AND DUMMY SCHOOLS! Author - Gokul M Kumar Joint Entrance Exam and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, both are ranked among the world's toughest exams. Every year an average of 13 lakh students attend NEET and 12  lakh students attend JEE. Like Ganeshotsav and Holi, these entrance exams became one of the festivals of India, not only because of the population involved in it but also because of the economics involved in it. Allen ( one of the top Entrance coaching institutes in India) says on their website that they had given prices worth 1.5 crores in the year 2019 alone. For drawing a clear picture of the entrance economy we could simply check Allen’s fees, for the first year itself it cost around 120000. The economy is so huge therefore a lot of educational products and services are offered in this segment alone. Even a tablet program offered by Akash Byju alone costs around 75000. What is a dummy School? Dummy Schools are a produc...
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Introduction to National Education Policy - Curriculum and Pedagogy

  Introduction to National Education Policy - Curriculum and Pedagogy National Education policy 2020 is the first NEP in the 20th century, replacing the primary policy propounded by Indira Gandhi in 1986 and its amendment by Rajeev Gandhi in 1992. The main agenda of this article is to focus on restructuring the curriculum and pedagogy in schools part.  Restructuring the curriculum the (5+3+3+4 equation) As we mentioned in the previous article . The whole schooling is divided into 4 ie, 1. Foundation     { age 6,7 and 3 years (Anganwadi) 2. Pre Primary class (Class 3 to 5) 3. Middle                  (Class 6 to 8) 4. Secondary             (Class 9 to +2)   So the structure of school education pedagogy and curriculum will be reconfigured in accordance with the 4 different stages we mentioned above. ie,   1.Foundation (2+3) - 5 years   ( age 3  to 8 ) 2. Pre Primary ...
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The New National Education Policy - 2020 about School Education

New National Education  Policy - 2020 about School Education National Education policy 2020 is the first NEP in the 20th century, replacing the primary policy propounded by Indira Gandhi in 1986 and its amendment by Rajeev Gandhi in 1992. The new educational policy focuses on five pillars ie,  1. Affordability,  2. Accessibility, 3. Quality,  4. Equity 5. Accountability  – to ensure continuous learning. This policy aims to make sustainable development and transform India into a vibrant knowledge society and global knowledge superpower by making both school and college education more flexible and multidisciplinary, suited to 21st-century learning needs by the year 2030. The modern-day society and economy called for a need to acquire new skills regularly. Thus, providing quality education and creating lifelong learning opportunities for all, leading to a decent employable workforce as enlisted in United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030. The NEP 2020 aims...
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Alarming Need For Implementing Adaptive Learning - And Its Importance In Kerala Board Educational System

                       Alarming  Need  For Implementing Adaptive Learning - And Its Importance In Kerala Board Educational System. Kerala educational board or Department of General Education in Kerala is one of the finest boards in the country. Our state board was always flexible to adapt to the new central government program aimed at the universalization of elementary education, which was updated from time to time in regular intervals. ie, i) District Primary Education Programme, DPEP ii) National Education Policy iii) Operation Black-Board iv) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) v) National Programme of Mid-Day Meals vi) Non-formal Education System (NFE) vii) Right to Education Act, 2009 \ In reference to this fact let's shed some light on NEP 2020. Ie, National education policy 2020 . It's the third Nep in India's history preceded by NEP 1964 by Indhira Gandhi, NEP 1984 by Rajeev Gandhi. The new NEP is con...
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Flipped Classroom the new reality and future

  Flipped Classroom the new reality and future Covid pandemic had substantially evoked a sense of dynamicity in every sector, especially in the educational sector of the country. The wind of revolution was so strong that the concept of teaching from home and learning from home became the order of the day and it eventually drove to the mushrooming of Ed-tech apps and online tuition supports. As a result, the app-based learning methodology has become so familiar that even in the rural outskirts of the country people are depending on it. But the fact to remember is all these changes had begun only after march 2020 ( some exceptions are there like the Byju's app and extra marks were there). Even if all these technological up-gradation and changes happened overnight, some visionaries were able to see the future and had worked on the concept more than one and a half decades ago. Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sam are two prominent names worth mentioning. These two academicians from  Woodl...
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