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MANIPAL ACADEMY OF HIGHER EDUCATION : Eminence and Leadership in Education(Image credit- KshitizBathwal/ Wikipedia) What comes to your mind when you think MANIPAL? Well it is MAHE for sure! An ‘Institution of Eminence’ that has many firsts to its credit, the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) is synonymous with excellence in not one – but multiple disciplines. Formerly known as the Manipal University, the name MAHE and the glory of its constituent colleges is a tribute to the visionary founder of the university, Dr. TMA Pai. In the early 1930’s Manipal was just a hill with a few houses on it and surrounded by the forests of the Western Ghats.  The legendary Dr. TMA Pai was a pioneer, and holds the record for establishing the maximum number of educational institutions. He is also r...

Gap Year After 12th- Is It Worth Taking?Acing the 10th class board exams by sweet 16; school farewell before the 18th birthday; graduation by 22; and an enviable job before hitting 25 – sounds perfect, right! Nothing could be better if you wanted it this way. But what if you want to take a break en route – like a gap year after 12th?  So, are you in a dilemma to take or not to take a gap year? This is certainly a question that needs the right reasons to qualify as an option. What is a Gap Year? A gap year, also called a sabbatical year, is a semester or a full year break a student takes after completing class 12; and before joining an undergraduate degree.  While one year is usual, in some cases the break may extend beyond this period. Do students take a Gap Year? Of course! Lot...

Absurd UVA microaggressions case shows just how badly schools can abuse professionalism codes The case of a University of Virginia medical student banned from campus for asking skeptical questions at a campus panel on microaggressions illustrates just how seriously graduate school professionalism codes continue to be abused to violate students’ most basic rights. FIRE has seen time and again these codes used to punish an array of speech that would otherwise be fully protected. FIRE has been sounding the alarm for years on the abuse of so-called “professionalism” policies for graduate students in programs focused on medicine, teaching, counseling, dentistry, law — even mortuary science — and more. In contrast with the broad expressive rights students typically receive (either by virtue of t...

Will Community Colleges Rally After COVID-19?We took a look at our data to find out which programs offer the most promise. Following the 2008-9 recession, enrollment at public two-year colleges and for-profit institutions grew to 7.6 million, up from about 6.4 million in 2007.  Over the following ten years or so, the growth ebbed a bit, but when Covid-19 brought another economic recession, it was expected that community college enrollment would pick up again, especially in Certificate programs–displaced workers would seek short-term training for new jobs.  If you are reading this, you probably know that is not what happened. Trends in Community College Enrollment According to the National Student Clearinghouse, as of October 2020, enrollments at two-year public institutions decl...

Blind students learning remotely encounter accessibility barriersThe shift to remote learning has been extremely challenging for blind students, with some still facing unresolved accessibility issues.The National Federation of the Blind and other organizations have warned for months that colleges are failing to provide blind students with the timely accommodations and support to which they are legally entitled. In some instances, blind students have had such a poor experience with remote learning that they decided to take time away from their studies rather than continue online, said Chris Danielsen, director of public relations at the NFB. This is a concerning trend, as research suggests students who take a pause from their education sometimes decide it’s not worth coming back. Many stude...

Finding Teachable Moments on the Field and in the Classroom This Sunday afternoon, the world will watch the 55th Super Bowl take place in Tampa Bay. While these football professionals play the last game of their season, high school coaches around the country are preparing for their next. Many of these coaches are tasked with balancing responsibilities as leaders on the field and as educators in the classroom. Among them is Chris Davidson of Ridge Community High School, about an hour outside of Tampa Bay . Davidson has been teaching since 2003 and coaching since 1993. A walk-on at Temple University, Davidson realized he was too small and too slow  to truly compete at that level. So, he pursued coaching. He started his first coaching gig shortly before his 20th birthday. Five year...

Colleges Vowed a Safer Spring. Then Students, and Variants, Arrived.Many universities instituted new testing protocols, hoping to avoid the problems of the fall. But coronavirus variants and uncooperative students have already driven outbreaks.She is known on campus as Patient Zero, the unidentified student who returned to the University of Michigan after winter break carrying an unwanted stowaway from her trip to England — a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus first detected in Britain.Quickly the case became a cluster, with at least 23 confirmations of the B.1.1.7 variant, concentrated in the Wolverines’ athletic program. Late last month, the university instructed students to stay in their rooms as much as possible and paused campus sports, disrupting a winning basketball season...

MLK Day: 5 Ways to Help Your Kids Explore its Significance Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929, and each year we recognize his birthday and life’s work with a federal holiday. King is well known for his efforts as a civil rights movement leader and for bringing about racial equality in the nation by using nonviolent means. The same year that King won the Nobel Peace Prize in the field of human rights, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. The following activities may be good ways to help families explore the significance of King’s work. Learn about the civil rights movement: The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was the political, legal, and social struggle to gain full citizenship rights for African Americans and to...