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Language Hubs for Assisted Learning

In-DepthExperiential learning, inclusive learning, language, Ministry of Education, National Education Policy, NEP, NEP 2020, NEP2020, teaching-learning

Can regional languages help students understand classroom lectures better? Prof. Virendra K Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur shares his views on setting up language hubs at technical institutes to assist students especially those from vernacular medium or facing difficulty in English communication. In a recent briefing, the Union Education Ministry made an announcement to start technical education, especially for engineering courses, in mother tongue from the next academic year including shortlisting of a few IITs and NITs. Since the announcement of NEP 2020 with a thrust on regional languages, , speculations and debates were up for embracing regional languages in the…

A New Era of Schooling

Communitycampus, IIT Kharagpur campus, school, school children, schooling, teaching, teaching-learning

How is teaching & learning being carried out at IIT Kharagpur's campus schools? Schooling has entered a new era with ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown. As contact classrooms have been shut down, schools across India are reinventing the educational system. Blackboards, benches, workbooks have been replaced by computers, smartphones, video lectures, conferencing applications, assignment modules. There are three schools on the campus upto higher secondary level and one school upto its primary section. The schools have gone digital since March 21, 2020. DAV Model School and Kendriya Vidyalas share the experiences with The Kgp Chronicle. DAV Model School at IIT…

A gift to posterity

EventsAjay Chakraborty, art forms, Classical Arts, goals, guru-shishya, IIT Kharagpur, SandHI, teaching-learning

IIT Kharagpur’s Centre for Classical Arts will transform the way the classical arts are taught and preserved A new dream is unfolding in IIT Kharagpur. The premier technology institute is working towards the creation of a Centre for Classical Arts. As to why an institute specializing in science and technology should ramify into the arts, the big picture first. For a variety of socio-economic reasons, the traditional guru-sishya parampara through which many of India’s intangible art forms have been passed down through generations is unlikely to survive in the future. There is a dire need to evolve a modern…