January 18, 2021
Law education in India has witnessed exponential development over the past few decades. Imparting legal […]
January 8, 2021
According to Stephane Nappo “If you think you know-it-all about cyber security, this discipline was […]
May 29, 2020
There is growing evidence that Indian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are producing unemployable graduates who pass their examinations on the strength of rote learning without understanding the subject matter. They fail to develop intellectual creativity needed for problem solving, independent thinking and such other 21st Century skills. This is true of all disciplines, including engineering. A study carried out by 'Aspiring Minds' (an employability assessment company) in 2017 revealed that about 95% of India's engineers were not fit for jobs in software development. Similarly, an astonishing report was published by McKinsey about a decade ago stating that just about one quarter of the engineers in India were actually employable then.
April 30, 2020
In the 21st century, knowledge emerged as the most versatile and renewable resource which can be augmented continuously to create new knowledge and increase productivity Therefore, it is imperative for every nation state to create dynamic and highly skilled human capital in front-ended areas to drive economy. Knowledge is disseminated through the education system and it is important that we respond to the enormous challenges of knowledge era by continuously reviewing offerings of our institutions of higher learning and repositioning them.
April 30, 2020
Usha Martin University is the one of the premier institutions of higher learning located at Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand. It offers various high quality professional UG and PG programmes. The University offers merit Scholarships to its students so as to encourage cost- effective and inclusive education for development of the society so that it can keep pace with national growth. Though it is a private university, it practices transparency in administrative and financial transactions. UMU has young, highly enthusiastic and dedicated faculty who give focused and individualized attention to every students.
April 28, 2020
In higher education, there has been conscious effort to shift focus from teacher to learner and classroom teaching to self-learning using technology. When integration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) made an amazing range of media audio-visual, radio, T.V, tele-and video-conferencing, computer conferencing and tools computers, CD-ROMs, telephone, DVDs, satellite, Internet - available to us, quick dissemination of education to the most deprived (socially, economically and educationally) and disadvantaged (geographically, physically, gender-wise) students became possible in a more dynamic, interactive and interesting way. That is, technology enhanced the effectiveness of teacher.
April 28, 2020
Computers have changed the way we live. Computers play a vital role in industrial processes, medicine, software industry; and education. The computers have made cash machines possible; these are used inside automated devices such as microwaves, video recorders, cars, etc. That is to say, computers have changed the way we live and it is only natural that computer education has been given a lot of importance in the school and college curriculum.. The advantages of computers in education include an efficient storage and performance of information, quick information processing and very importantly the saving of paper and environment conservation.
April 24, 2020
The world is witnessing tremendous changes dominated by technology in ways of transaction (storing, retrieving and transmission) of information leading to generation of huge data and that too at a rapid rate. This has led to vast demand for skilled human resources in Data Science to handle such data efficiently and help draw business decisions. That is why Data Science has become one of the most sought after technologies the world over and is seen as futuristic job spinner.
April 24, 2020
As we reflect on the achievements of the 20th century, we note that the world witnessed several desirable developments in every field of human endeavor, some in parallel and some in sequence. The revolutionary changes in media technologies facilitated communication across oceans and mountains. We are now living in very challenging and terrible times dominated by forces of Covid- 19. It is universally accepted that media is the fourth pillar of democratic governance.
April 24, 2020
We are living in extremely challenging times dominated by rapid changes in technology. Its application in delivery of higher education has brought about far reaching positive changes as far as quality and productivity are concerned. Even in the Covid-19 times, technology has come to our aid to continue the tradition of teaching-learning essentially because of availability of connected devices such as smart phones, computers, tablets, etc.