Education In India News

Lucknow, Nov 3: Terming the present education system in the country as a victim of Macaulay's conspiracy", Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said that there was a need to change it and stressed on use of mother tongue. ...

New Delhi, November 3: A city-based NGO has launched a skill development programme for the blind to enhance their employability quotient. The four-month pilot project, launched by Score Foundation, aims at training 20 blind graduates who have recently passed ...

Delhi, November 3: Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani Saturday said that a new credit transfer system from class 9 up till the Ph.D level will be presented Nov 11. "You will be pleased to know that on Nov ...

Chennai, October 30: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase the number of contact class centres in the state for girl students under the Udaan scheme. In a letter to Modi, the ...

New Delhi, October 30: Poor, marginalised children from eight countries Wednesday demanded inclusion of life skills education in school curriculum. These children are a part of the Children's Development Khazana (CDK) - a voluntary bank run by children between ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed that universities and educational institutions will be among those entities eligible for financial assistance under its Depositor Education and Awareness Fund (DEAF) Scheme 2014. The RBI had earlier said that ...

New Delhi, October 29: Highlighting the lacuna in the implementation of the RTE Act, 2009, experts Tuesday launched a national campaign demanding the fulfillment of the "constitutional obligation of the government with regards to education within the stipulated time". ...

Hyderabad, 28 October, 2014: Smartur.com, a digital education solutions company, has today announced its ‘Smartur.com National Proficiency Test (SNPT)' for students of classes 1st to 10th at the National Level, available on www.smartur.com. Starting this year students of these ...

Washington, October 28: A staggering 100 million children making up about half of India's school-going children cannot read a grade-appropriate text or solve a grade appropriate math question. Trying to bridge that gap through "low-cost, scalable methods" is Pratham, ...

Coimbatore: According to the analytical reports published bu the district information system for education, 15% of primary school students in Tamil Nadu are below permitted age. The state ranks fifth highest in the country in the primary level ...

The girls students, who passed matriculation examination in first division from the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB), will get Rs 10,000 as stipend as the education department has finally released Rs. 63.73 crore to different districts for distribution. ...

Noida: The unaffiliated schools are known to flout safety norms. The district administration in Noida had slapped notices on 40 unaffiliated schools to shut them down within 15 days. Parents were asked to admit their children in the nearby ...

New Delhi, October 16: Transgender children will study in Delhi schools free with Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung Wednesday approving their admission under the category of "disadvantaged group" defined by the Right to Education Act. It means these kids ...

Patna, October 16: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, the chancellor of Nalanda University, Wednesday said the university will start two more schools from next year. "There is a plan to start two new schools of health care and economics and ...