Schools News

Building further on its philosophy of contributing to the community it operates in, Panasonic India, in collaboration with Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, today kicked-started its community health initiative "Aarogya", aimed at providing accessible and affordable health services to the communities in and ...

In order to fight obesity in children, a primary school in Melbourne has launched a standing classroom, which is the first of it's kind in the world. As a part of an experiment by researchers of Baker IDI ...

The common things a school going student thinks would include, "When is the next holiday?", "Why do we have so many subjects?", "How can I complete all of my homework given for each subject we studied today?!", "I wish the teacher ...

Over 1,200 functionaries of block and district level will be given special training on different aspects under the Right To Education (RTE) Act, 2009. Odisha Primary Education Programme Authority (OPEPA) is organising the five-day training programme, under Sarva Sikshya Abhiyan ...

Kochi: Two years ago, Class X examinations were made optional by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to reduce the stress caused by "Board exams" in students. But now, the scheme seems to have only a few in the district ...

The act is an official punishment that provides an immediate discipline for the misbehaviour or indiscipline of school students. It serves the purpose and lets the child know that there are limits and certain expectations as to their behaviour, giving a ...

The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) has laid up several guidelines to be observed by the education officials and school authorities to ensure that the schools obtain a good pass percentage this time. Last year the pass percentage was ...

Prominent Indian schools are attracting Nepali students beginning from early childhood to higher level at a time when Nepal is having political stability and expected to move ahead on the economic path. Though there is no exact figure as to how ...

Although learning curves differ from person to person, be it male or female human species, it remains trickier to solve an equation of gender in terms of performance under an educational set-up; be it in colleges, schools, or even in society ...

New nursery admission guidelines announced in the city have been welcomed by parents but have left school authorities miffed over abolishment of management quota. Schools are also unhappy over fixed points system and the preference being given to children living ...

Indian IT bellwether Wipro Ltd, on Thursday announced a fellowship programme to nurture talent of American school teachers in mathematics and science in collaboration with Michigan State University. "We are funding the multi-year programme with a $2.8-million grant to initially ...

The state school syllabus revamp committee is in talks with the West Bengal education department to include detailed chapters on anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar in state-run schools' curriculum, officials said Wednesday. West Bengal School Syllabus ...

The Government Resolution (GR) that mandates a fixed student-teacher ratio per classroom has put schools in a bind. Most of the schools are already worried about their limited infrastructure and this mandate is like adding to their agony. Many schools are ...

A programme that trains speech-language pathologists to work with American Indian children will soon be created as announced by Kansas University (KU).U.S. Department of Education has granted $1.2 million to aid the Culturally Responsive Early Literacy Instruction programme at KU. ...