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Can Your Education Get You the Right Job?

Can Your Education Get You the Right Job?

The employment situation and education systems are equally bad in all parts of India. It is reflected in the country's worsening Human Development Index. By Rakesh Raman Today, there is a wide mismatch between the education being provided to students in India and the skills requirement in the contemporary job market.…
Constructive Education Framework: Arithmetic and Business Stats Course

Constructive Education Framework: Arithmetic and Business Stats Course

Constructive Education Framework Syllabus Arithmetic and Business Statistics Course By Rakesh Raman RMN Foundation – which runs free schools to provide modern education to poor children – has developed an innovative Arithmetic and Business Statistics Course for its school students. It is part of the Constructive Education Framework developed by…
Program to Improve Reading Proficiency Among K-3 Students

Program to Improve Reading Proficiency Among K-3 Students

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), a children's literacy organization, announced Wednesday the introduction of Read for Success, a program intervention designed to improve reading proficiency among K-3 students. Tested over a two-year period as part of an Innovative Approaches to Literacy grant from the U.S. Department of Education, RIF's evidence-based model…
What Are the Advantages of Peer Learning?

What Are the Advantages of Peer Learning?

Peer learning – which is being effectively used as a pedagogical method at RMN Foundation school – has enormous benefits for students. By Rakesh Raman In their weekly communication skills development program Educhat, the students of RMN Foundation school in New Delhi discussed the advantages of peer learning on Sunday,…
RMN Foundation School Students Depict Dengue with Drawings

RMN Foundation School Students Depict Dengue with Drawings

RMN Foundation school students took to drawings to spread the awareness about Dengue, exhorting people to stay in a hygienic environment. By Rakesh Raman As Dengue virus is spreading at an alarming pace in India's capital New Delhi, the disease has already claimed nearly 20 lives in the ongoing outbreak.…
L’Oreal Helps Children with Special Medical Needs

L’Oreal Helps Children with Special Medical Needs

More than 850 employees, suppliers and volunteers participated in L'Oreal USA's annual "Fore the Children" charity event on Tuesday, September 15, raising $700,000 for Children's Specialized Hospital of New Jersey. Established in 2008, the event has continued to grow, raising nearly $4 million over that timespan for the Hospital which…
Are Educated Indian Students Employable? No, Says the Survey

Are Educated Indian Students Employable? No, Says the Survey

As Indian schools fail miserably in providing the right education to students, a new 'Pearson Voice of Teacher Survey 2015' reveals that Indian students may be educated but they are not employment-ready. The survey further says that the Indian education assessment framework is lacking specific action points to enable comprehensive…