Schools News

Sydney, July 29, 2015: Four Indian-origin children, including a pair of twins, are among 50 kids who have reached the finals of the Great Australian Spelling Bee contest, media reported on Monday. Scheduled to be aired on Channel 10 from August ...

Srinagar, July 27, 2015: At least 50 schools in Jammu and Kashmir will be upgraded as Model Schools in the next three months which will be equipped with computer labs, smart classrooms and implementation cells to prepare students for the cutting-edge ...

New Delhi, July 24, 2015: A parliamentary panel has recommended introduction of environment as a compulsory subject in schools in Jammu to create awareness among students. The department related parliamentary standing committee on science and technology and environment and forests also ...

London, July 23, 2015: A 15-year-old Indian-origin boy in the UK has developed a potential test for Alzheimer's which could allow the disease to be diagnosed 10 years before the first symptoms appear and even stop its progression. Krtin Nithiyanandam, of ...

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 ...

New York, July 20, 2015: Indian-origin Soorajnath Boominathan is part of a four-member team that will represent the US in the annual 47th International Chemistry Olympiad to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from July 20 to 29. A resident of Oklahoma ...

New Delhi, July 14, 2015: The government is planning to set up a University of Medicines which will also carry out documentation of diseases and its treatment through various traditional practices. Union Health Minister J P Nadda said the university will ...

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 ...

Coimbatore, July 13, 2015: All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE) today urged the Centre to not to sign the WTO-GATS(General Agreement on Trade and Services) in education sector , as the entire higher education system in India would be ...

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 ...

India has made "impressive" progress in providing primary education to its children but it is still struggling to achieve similar results in lower secondary education and has the largest number of out-of- school adolescents, a UN study said today. According to ...

Port of Spain, July 6, 2015: An India-born girl, Anusha Saha, has topped Trinidad and Tobago's Secondary Entrance Examination. Anusha was congratulated by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, a person of Indian origin, and Minister of Education Tim Goopeesingh, both of whom ...