Education News

Mumbai, May 11: Education technology start-ups are seeing a spate of investor activities over the past few months with top venture capital firms validating their growth potential. Since April, at least five start-ups in the education technology space have raised ...

Dehradun, May 11: In order to provide quality education to children, all thirteen districts in Uttarakhand will have residential schools in their most backward regions by the end of the year, Chief Minister Harish Rawat has said. 'Rajiv Gandhi Abhinav ...

New Delhi, May 11: From storytelling to theatre and from scriptwriting to printmaking, the National Museum is all set to organise summer workshops for children from May 17. Organisers said. "The idea is to engage the younger generation with the ...

New Delhi, May 11: A joint delegation of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) on Sunday met Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over issues faced by students and demand for new colleges. The delegation ...

Dantewada (Chhattisgarh), May 11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi handled with aplomb a series of questions put to him by children at an interactive session during his visit , even saying he would like to be a child again and that "the ...

Brussels, May 11: Belgium's most prestigious and largest university in the city of Leuven, 26 km from Brussels, has honoured India's world renowned poet, artist and humanist Rabindranath Tagore by erecting his statue in the university premises. The Indian Council ...

Bangalore, May 8: Nothing in the world can stop you if you are truly service-oriented, and it is not mandatory that you should hold a high profile (as politician, IAS officers or a media person) in the society to extend helping ...

New Delhi, May 4: While school textbooks contain concepts of sustainable development, bringing the same into practise seldom seems to be a part of the curriculum. The seventh edition of Project SEARCH, an initiative of The Energy and Resources Institute ...

Kathmandu, May 4: Schools and other educational institutions in quake-devastated Nepal will remain shut till May 14 in 11 districts, including the worst-hit Gorkha region, the government has announced. The closure will be effective in Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Makwanpur, Nuwakot, ...

Shimla, May 4: As many as 67,054 candidates out of a total of 98,410 have passed the class XII examination of Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education, with a pass percentage of 68.64 per cent. The girls fared better as ...

New Delhi, May 4: Promising a revamp of Delhi's education system, the state government today said it will form its own education board on the lines of CBSE and NCERT, come out with new syllabus and also amend existing education laws. ...

Puducherry, May 4: As part of its initiatives to set up Energy Education Park in each State and Union Territory across the country, Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has established one such park in Puducherry. An official release ...

In February 2015, Maharashtra held its annual evaluation tests for teachers of government-run schools. Only one percent of more than 245,800 primary teachers who took the test passed. Upper-primary teachers did better, somewhat -- 4.9 percent cleared the tests. This ...

Panaji, May 4: Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said the government has identified three separate plots to set up the proposed Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the state. Parsekar, who was under criticism for failing to come up with ...