Education In India News

For the first time, 2 Indian institutes have made it to the world's top 200 in the list of the world's best universities. The universities are the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru bagging the top spot among its Indian counterparts, is ...

New Delhi: Admission forms in schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education or CBSE will have to compulsorily include information of a child's mother tongue as well as preference of the language for study under the three-language formula. In ...

10 schools across country have been recognised as 'Changemaker Schools' for bringing new approaches to education that would enable students to enhance development in the society. The schools, said to have institutional characteristics were recognised at a two-day conclave 'Ashoka Changemaker ...

Chandigarh: Punjab government said it will set up 50 skill-training colleges for girls under the "Skill India Mission" while another 2,000 centres will come up at village level to hone their skills. The decision was taken here at a high-level meeting, ...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom, here has been adjudged the best government day school in the country in the Education World India School Rankings 2015. The hitherto unranked school, trumped last year's list topper KV-IIT Madras in the category. A number of ...

Bhubaneswar: Encouraging IITians to take advantage of the "Start Up India, Stand Up India" scheme, Union HRD minister Smriti Irani recently said qualified engineers need to take up entrepreneurship on the basis of innovative ideas acquired in the premier institute. {image-14-1442210155-27-smritiirani1.jpg ...

The national web portal for promotion of a national apprenticeship scheme is launched by the Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani. The scheme is aimed at people to provide opportunities for practical training for those who have a graduate degree, hold ...

"Education department in Gujarat has taken a "serious" note of the rising number of suicides by school children," said the Gujarat Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama recently. Citing on the rising incidents of suicide the minister said, "The psychologists and sociologists would ...

President Pranab Mukherjee urged for greater involvement of the society in achieving higher literacy targets. "Without education India cannot claim its pride of place among nations," stated the president. Speaking during the celebration of International Literacy Day in New Delhi, the ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has directed all the CBSE affiliated schools to spare everyday's 45 minutes to provide self defence training to girls. The decision is taken at the backdrop of increasing incidents related to girl child molestation. ...

UK-based professional body of engineers launched IET Faraday India Programme. A pilot programme in India, aims to equip schoolteachers with modern learning and pedagogical resources. The programme is meant to explore ways and means to improve teaching and learning in science, ...

As the Modi government sets the pace to create a new education policy after 3 decades, the right wing Hindu organisations have started the consultation process for formulating their own suggestions for the HRD ministry. There have been suggestions about a ...

Bhubaneswar: The Naveen Patnaik-led BDJ government in the state is working on formulating its own education policy and consultations in this regard are on in Delhi for a new policy at the national level.A nine-member state-level committee under the chairmanship of ...

Visakhapatnam: Urging teachers to help transform Andhra Pradesh into a "knowledge hub", chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu said the state aims to achieve the target of 100 per cent literacy rate by 2019. "Education is very essential for development of the ...