Schools News

Jan 5: Concerned over incidents of school children being kidnapped and facing various threats, the education department has issued a series of guidelines to ensure their safety and wellbeing. In a circular to the schools, Director of Elementary School Education ...

Bhubaneswar, Jan 01: In an effort to curb student dropout, the School and Mass Education Department has decided to implement a new set of guidelines. The new guideline got approval of the school and mass education minister Debi Prasad Mishra ...

New Delhi, Dec 30: The Delhi Government's Directorate of Education (DoE) has directed private schools to upload the criteria adopted for nursery admission for the academic year 2015-16, offering some relief to the parents. "All managers of private unaided recognised ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 29: In a major initiative that may revolutionise the general education sector, Kerala is all set to introduce multi-media "Digital Collaborative Textbooks" (DCT), the first of its kind in the country, in government schools. This digital textbook will ...

Cuttack, December 26: Sponsored by a UK-based Global development organisation—Sightsavers, the Cuttack district administration has launched a massive free eye health programme called ‘Vidyajyoti’ in the district here recently. The programme envisages covering around 3.5 lakh school-going children of approximately 2500 ...

New Delhi, December 26: The Delhi High Court was Wednesday informed by the central government that it has decided to carry out various activities like online essay competitions in CBSE schools for two days - Dec 25 and 26 - so ...

The Department of Public Instruction, Government of Karnataka, has released the list of unauthorised schools located across Bengaluru. According to the reports, there is an increasing in the number of schools opening across the city. A total of 1,266 illegal ...

Basketball action bounced off when Pathways School Gurgaon hosted its first Pathways All India Basketball Tournament at the school campus from 15 to 18 December, 2014 with 11 school teams from the under-19 age group participating. ...

New Delhi, Dec 24: There is an urgent need to define the academic standards which a student needs to achieve as he is promoted to the next class in schools, believe experts at IIT-Delhi. "If a class X student cannot ...

As per 2009 high court order, it is mandatory for all schools in Delhi to have at least one special educator. But, Gurgaon schools have just an abysmal ratio of just 3 special teachers for 315 children in over 200 schools. ...

Thiruvananthapuram, December 22: Using free software under Information and Communication Technology in Education (ICT) in 3.2 lakh schools across the country can save over Rs.8,000 crore, said an expert in free software. Rahul De of IIM Bangalore said this, Friday, ...

New Delhi, Dec 22: Delhi government's Directorate of Education has decided to move to the Supreme Court to appeal against the High Court's verdict on nursery admissions in city schools. High Court had quashed the points system issued by the ...

New Delhi, Dec 17: The Supreme Court has accepted the proposal mooted by the Centre that KV students of class VI, VII and VIII will not have to take examination for third modern Indian language Sanskrit in this academic session and ...

Several secondary schools managed by BMC do not have a headmaster, the Maharashtra Shikshak Parishad, a teachers' body, has alleged. According to the Parishad, 105 of BMC's 143 secondary schools only have a senior teacher to carry out a headmaster's responsibility. ...