Education News – Newsletter for January 10, 2011

More realistic account of Bhopal Gas Tragedy in new NCERT book

BHOPAL – Against a background of black, the pages tell the story of the world’s worst industrial disaster – in Bhopal on Dec 2-3 night, 1984. The photographs, of the deaths, the sufferers, and the killer factory, have photo captions highlighted in red. This is part of NCERT’s new Social Sciences book for Class 8 … Read the original article on Gaea Times at : More realistic account of Bhopal Gas Tragedy in new NCERT book.

‘IGNOU has brought teachers-students closer’

NEW DELHI – The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has bridged the gap between teachers and students with its quality study material for the last 25 years, Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai said Sunday.

Pillai said that IGNOU has been committed to quality teaching, education and capacity building through the Open Distance Learning pedagogy …. Source  : Gaea News Network.