The British Council--the UK's world organisation for cultural members of the family and academic opportunities--will soon be coaching over 30,000 govt school teachers across Maharashtra in English educating.
This initiative follows an MoU with the state govt earlier this 12 months to make stronger educational and cultural cooperation between the United Kingdom and India. The thought is to beef up English educating and toughen employability abilities in schools and training institutes.
In the past, the British Council had partnered with the state govt and Tata Trusts for a similar initiative titled Project TEJAS that targets to beef up the standard of English-language studying in primary schools in Maharashtra. Launched in 2016, this ongoing five-year-long endeavour sees teachers shape each physical and virtual communities of observe of their local areas thru Teacher Activity Groups (TAGs) which enables them to expand their language ability, educating abilities, wisdom and revel in.
Run by means of voluntary coordinators, those TAGs now not only meet up as soon as a month for observe but also percentage ideas to make studying more effective and hone their language abilities thru WhatsApp teams. "This results in more motivated teachers who take part in a culture of sharing and learning which results in improved quality of teaching and learning in the classroom," says Helen Silvester, director, West India, British Council, adding the mission which will run until 2021 targets to coach 48,000 teachers. So far, 18,000 teachers had been educated.
Over the ultimate 12 months, there were 12 such partnerships between higher training establishments in Maharashtra with the United Kingdom beneath the bilateral UK India Education and Research Initiative. So far, those partnerships have led to young researchers and scholars from the state travelling incessantly to UK for higher training and professional development thru scholarships from the United Kingdom like Commonwealth, Chevening, GREAT and CWILT.
Most just lately, the British Council's 70th Anniversary Scholarships helped 14 young women from Maharashtra pursue master's degrees in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) in the United Kingdom. Given the fresh shadow forged on bilateral members of the family by means of the United Kingdom's resolution to stay India out of the revised checklist of countries eligible for more straightforward scholar visas, those partnerships may potentially be seen as rays of hope.
This initiative follows an MoU with the state govt earlier this 12 months to make stronger educational and cultural cooperation between the United Kingdom and India. The thought is to beef up English educating and toughen employability abilities in schools and training institutes.
In the past, the British Council had partnered with the state govt and Tata Trusts for a similar initiative titled Project TEJAS that targets to beef up the standard of English-language studying in primary schools in Maharashtra. Launched in 2016, this ongoing five-year-long endeavour sees teachers shape each physical and virtual communities of observe of their local areas thru Teacher Activity Groups (TAGs) which enables them to expand their language ability, educating abilities, wisdom and revel in.
Run by means of voluntary coordinators, those TAGs now not only meet up as soon as a month for observe but also percentage ideas to make studying more effective and hone their language abilities thru WhatsApp teams. "This results in more motivated teachers who take part in a culture of sharing and learning which results in improved quality of teaching and learning in the classroom," says Helen Silvester, director, West India, British Council, adding the mission which will run until 2021 targets to coach 48,000 teachers. So far, 18,000 teachers had been educated.
Over the ultimate 12 months, there were 12 such partnerships between higher training establishments in Maharashtra with the United Kingdom beneath the bilateral UK India Education and Research Initiative. So far, those partnerships have led to young researchers and scholars from the state travelling incessantly to UK for higher training and professional development thru scholarships from the United Kingdom like Commonwealth, Chevening, GREAT and CWILT.
Most just lately, the British Council's 70th Anniversary Scholarships helped 14 young women from Maharashtra pursue master's degrees in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) in the United Kingdom. Given the fresh shadow forged on bilateral members of the family by means of the United Kingdom's resolution to stay India out of the revised checklist of countries eligible for more straightforward scholar visas, those partnerships may potentially be seen as rays of hope.
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