The Skill Opportunity: How Maker Bhavan Foundation Is Transforming STEM Learning in India
By Damayanti Bhattacharya, CEO, Maker Bhavan Foundation: The skilling challenges for India are well known and need no further elaboration. Government initiatives on skilling have so far focused almost exclusively on vocational training, which can potentially pull millions of young Indians and their families out of poverty. Globalization and technological innovation have ensured that the […]
Read More →Female enrolment in IITs Rises to 20% in 2021-22 & NITs to 22% in 2021-22
New Delhi, 14 December 2022: To improve female enrolment in the Undergraduate Programmes in IITs, supernumerary seats were created which increased the female enrolment from 8% in 2016 to 20% in 2021-22. Similarly, the enrolment of girls in NITs has increased to nearly 22.1% in 2021-22. There has been consistent improvement in the enrolment of […]
Read More →Dept of S&T collaborates with IBM to nurture STEM career opportunities for girl students
New Delhi: Existing opportunities for meritorious girls to nurture their interest in Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) will be expanded and a learning platform scaled to make learning relevant and foster scientific spirit among the country’s youth in partnership with IBM. The Department of Science & Technology (DST) and IBM India announced collaborations to […]
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