Education News

New Delhi, July 21, 2015: CBSE today cautioned affiliated schools against indulging in "educationally unsound" and "unhealthy practice" by pressuring children and "coercing" parents into buying additional books and use of material other than NCERT. In a communication to all school ...

Guwahati, July 21, 2015: NPS International School of Guwahati has made the northeastern region proud once again by securing the first position in the national-level film-making competition organised by the CBSE, the results of which were declared in Delhi on Monday. ...

New Delhi, July 20, 2015: Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today held deliberations with some RSS-affiliated education bodies on the new education policy during which they are understood to have also discussed the appointments of possible candidates in various institutes and ...

Chandigarh, July 20, 2015: Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU) is starting its third agriculture college in the state from the current academic session. The college would be established at Bawal in Rewari district in the Regional Research Station of ...

Jammu, July 14, 2015: The Army has set up three mobile schools in Banihal area of Ramban district in Jammu and Kashmir to provide education to the children of nomadic Gujjar and Bakerwal community. "The Rashtriya Rifles Battalion at Nachlana and ...

New York, July 10, 2015: Estimating the number of deaths that can be linked to differences in education, researchers have determined that lacking education may be as deadly as being a current rather than former smoker. "In public health policy, we ...

New Delhi, July 9, 2015: An RSS-affiliated body has suggested changes in education policy to make studying Sanskrit or other classical languages like Arabic, Persian, Latin or Greek mandatory in schools for at least four years. In a draft suggesting policy ...

London, July 9, 2015: The UK has suffered a 50 per cent drop in the number of Indian students studying in the country during the last five years owing to an "increasingly unwelcoming policy", a leading NRI entrepreneur said today. "An ...

New Delhi, July 9, 2015: India's JD Institute of Fashion Technology has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with India Fashion Week London (IFWL), which is scheduled to happen in October to celebrate Asian fashion by popular designers. A first time ...

Jaipur, July 7, 2015: Rajasthan government today issued an order banning new admissions in the Jodhpur National University (JNU), which awarded more than 25,000 fake degrees to students, with immediate effect for the academic session 2015-16. A departmental enquiry constituted after ...

Hyderabad, July 6, 2015: Adoption of semester system, choice-based credit system (CBCS) pattern and grading system are some of the reforms being introduced in Andhra Pradesh universities from the 2015-16 academic year for all the undergraduate courses in the state. Compulsory ...

New Delhi, July 6, 2015: With admissions to various institutes currently underway across the country, HRD Ministry today encouraged the students to visit the 'know your college' portal launched in November last year. The portal, it said, will help the students ...

New Delhi, July 3, 2015: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam today called for a review of syllabi in universities and senior secondary schools to make the education system more skill-oriented. "I believe that the syllabus in our universities and ...

Washington, July 2, 2015: Darshan Jain, an Indian American teacher is one of the 108 teachers named by President Barack Obama as recipients of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Jain, who has taught mathematics at ...