Education News

United Nations: With more than 200 million children unable to read and write globally, the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will focus on access to quality education, the executive director of Unicef said. "There are 250 million children around the ...

Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India is also a visionary. To make his dream 'Digital India', come true he has initiated new policies to bring about changes in the field of education. As a part of the programme he started ...

A homemade alarm clock built out of an extraordinary choice of materials got the 14 year old Ahmed Mohamed suspended from his suburban Dallas high school. He was detained and handcuffed by police officers after the school officials accused him of ...

With an aim to cut down on technology use in classrooms the government of Britain has appointed government expert and former teacher Tom Bennett to review the impact of tablets and smartphones on school children. "An investigation into how to train ...

Switzerland: With the global demand for skilled workers growing rapidly, Switzerland is keen on expanding its ties with India in skill training and education initiatives by opening at least four more centres in the country. Though a beginning has already been ...

New Delhi, August 24, 2015: The government is following a "calibrated approach" to open its education and legal services for foreigners, a move aimed at boosting country's services sector. Commerce Secretary Rita Teaotia said that work is under progress for opening ...

In a move to boost and strengthen the educational ties between India and Australia, the Government of India has cleared the proposal to credit transfers and exchange of training and research between institutes of the two countries. Indian and Australia would ...

One of the most interesting applications of science is that of forensic science. Here, concepts of physics, chemistry, botany, zoology and medical science are applied in order to investigate a crime and identify a culprit. Evidence that is found in crime ...

New Delhi, August 7, 2015: Academicians from various central and state universities across the country today said that the government is treating education as a "no-merit good" and is rolling out initiatives to encourage dominance of private players in the sector. ...

Mumbai, August 7, 2015: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has approved a proposal to distribute 22,799 tablet PCs to class 8th students across all municipal schools in the city. The proposal was passed yesterday by the standing committee of Shiv Sena-ruled ...

Thiruvananthapuram, August 7, 2015: Kerala, which is gearing up to declare itself as the first digital state in the country, has drawn up an ambitious plan to connect over 5,000 schools through digital network. With the launching of the project, the ...

New Delhi, August 6, 2015: Various academicians and students from different universities across the country today passed a resolution at an "Education Parliament" against certain reforms in higher education such as CBCS and Central Universities Bill being rolled out by the ...

New Delhi, August 6, 2015: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has been sanctioned Rs.6.18 crore for providing Wi-Fi facility in universities, parliament was informed on Wednesday. Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, in a written reply to the Lok Sabha, said ...

Kolkata, August 6, 2015: Internship offers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur IIT-KgP, have gone up by 50 percent this season, a statement said on Wednesday. "The Institute experienced year-on-year increase of 33 percent in the number of companies visiting campus ...