Schools News

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 ...

Are you interested in construction and design works? Civil and structural engineering will be the right choice for your higher education. Civil engineering is the second oldest engineering discipline in the world. Civil engineering deals with the construction, design of built ...

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 ...

New Delhi, July 1, 2015: Literacy rate in rural areas was pegged at 71 per cent last year, compared to 86 per cent in urban areas, while among the age group of seven years and above, male literacy rate was found ...