Schools News

Shimla, June 5, 2015: The Himachal Pradesh High Court today directed three state-run universities to provide free education to students with more than 40 percent disability and enhance the scholarship for disabled students in schools and colleges. The universities are ...

Kolkata, June 5, 2015: The CISCE today said it would go to court to get justice unless colleges and universities "stop discrimination" in the process of admission of students of national boards. "Why should there be discrimination? In a ...

Panaji, June 3, 2015: Schools in Goa will reopen on June 8 instead of June 4 due to "unavoidable circumstances". "Due to unavoidable circumstances the reopening of all schools in the state of Goa is postponed and they ...

Mumbai, June 2, 2015: Students will have to attend their schools and colleges for one hour in morning on the 'International Yoga Day' on June 21 which falls on Sunday and can get a compensatory holiday later, state education minister Vinod ...

Chandigarh, June 2, 2015: The BJP government here has decided to do away with the semester system across all classes in all state board-affiliated schools in Haryana from next academic session. However, the semester system in class IX and XI ...

New Delhi, June 1, 2015: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam today advocated a "complete" change of the higher education framework in the country and stressed on skill development to come up with a workforce to meet future challenges. ...

Chandigarh, May 29, 2015: The Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes on Thursday directed the state education and welfare departments to provide textbooks to the students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes within a week. It has ...

United Nations, May 8: At least 950,000 children in Nepal will not be able to return to school, unless urgent action is taken to provide temporary learning spaces and repair damaged school buildings following the earthquake on April 25, Unicef said. ...

New Delhi, May 8: The Delhi High Court was informed by the city government's education department that it has surveyed unauthorised and unrecognised elementary-level schools in the national capital and granted provisional recognition certificates to 800 such institutions. A division ...

New Delhi, May 8: Jamia Millia Islamia said there was no proposal to close down its Urdu-medium senior secondary school for girls. "It has been speculated in certain quarters that the university administration is toying with the idea ...

New Delhi, May 7:In a unique green initiative, Eco Clubs of Delhi schools will soon use saplings instead of bouquets to greet guests at various occasions. The idea was mooted by Delhi Environment Minister Asim Ahmed Khan at a meeting ...

Chennai, May 6: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday saying the future of many schoolchildren in the state could be in jeopardy if the Sarva Siksha programme is not in conformity with the ...

Mumbai, April 30: In a significant decision, the Maharashtra government permitted all schools in the state to opt for a five-day working week from the ensuing academic year 2015-2016, an official said here. Shikshak Bharati president and Congress legislator Kapil ...

Darjeeling, April 30: All schools located within the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) will continue to remain closed for the next two days for the assessment of damage incurred during the recent earthquake. A statement to this effect was ...