Schools News

Set up in 2009 under a central government scheme, a school in Arunachal Pradesh's East Kameng district has only one class - Class X - the students of which will appear for their board examination this year. Ekalavya ...

Defending his government's policy of medium of instruction (MOI) in elementary education, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has claimed that it will encourage education in Konkani and Marathi languages. "Twenty five per cent of the students who were ...

Feedback is nothing but suggestions which tell us our current state of progress. Feedbacks helps both the provider and the receiver to test their own level of knowledge. Therefore, it makes sense to inculcate this trend in educational institutes. ...

India has witnessed the largest number of adult illiterates in the world with 287 million, according to the Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2013-14, by UNESCO. According to the report, the Indian curriculum is unrealistic and far ...

Haryana Government, Wednesday, has decided to exempt payment of tax by vehicles used for carrying students to schools, colleges and other educational institutions, an official said. The decision was taken here Wednesday at a meeting of the Haryana cabinet ...

When it comes to evaluation, students are under focus. The teachers decide the caliber of students, but what if the tables were turned around? If there was a situation where the teachers' caliber was measured by the ...

Only 50 per cent of the 35,000 seats reserved in private schools for children belonging to disadvantaged groups and the economically weaker sections were filled last year in the national capital, a survey done by an NGO has found. ...

The Delhi High Court has asked the government to check, if schools are misusing the autonomy granted to them and move court if necessary. A single-judge bench of Justice Manmohan asked the Directorate of Education to ensure that ...

Facing flak from teachers' community, Delhi government has withdrawn its order of increasing the working hours of school teachers to 45 hours per week and resorted the earlier schedule. According to the previous order issued by the Directorate ...

Expressing dissatisfaction over the quality of education in Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna has asked teachers to understand their responsibilities and educate students in a manner which would enable them to survive in today's highly competitive world. "Educational ...

The primary job profile of any teacher or educator is to enhance the student's ability to learn and help them analyse and retain information, purposefully. Classroom is not meant for teachers to just dump information into their students! It ...

Teaching profession is a journey filled with humongous opportunities to learn, enjoy and grow as much as one can try. Though the norm of 'having learnt is sufficient to teach' exists, it is worth the resistance when you learn ...

With a view to protecting girls from abuse, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation has proposed a counselling programme for school girls to help them differentiate between a "good" and "bad" touch. The programme 'Syani Bitiya Rani Bitiya' has ...

Being a student is a handful of work. There are homeworks, tests, examinations, assignments, projects, presentations and lot more to be taken care of, all at once. An average of 8-9 hours is spent at school or a ...