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A recent UNESCO report has said that going by the current trends, India will be half a century late in achieving its global education commitments and there is a need to bring fundamental changes in the education system if it wants ...

New Delhi: Universities across India will celebrate "Matribhasha Diwas" to promote the use of mother tongue on March 3 this year as February 21, the day declared by UNESCO as Mother languages day, happens to be a Sunday. In ...

Smriti Irani, HRD Minister, who is on an official visit to UNESCO Headquarters in Paris said that the government is trying to open windows of opportunity of education to all its citizens. She also said that the India has extended partnership ...

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 ...

Bengaluru, June 30, 2015: Five teenage girl students from Bengaluru won the Technovation challenge at a global pitch event at San Francisco city in the US. Sanjana Vasanth, N. Anupama, Mahima Mehendale, Swasthi P. Rao and B. Navyashree, all aged 14, ...

New Delhi, Apr 10: Flagging the issue of learning outcome in classrooms, a UNESCO report today said there were wide disparities in students' achievement of basic skills across states even as the country has succeeded in enrolling more children. The Education-For-All ...

New Delhi, Apr 10: Making significant progress, India has reduced its "out of school" children by over 90 per cent and has achieved "universal primary education", said a UNESCO global education report released today. "In fact, India is predicted to ...

New Delhi, November 25: Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani Monday emphasised on strengthening cooperation with the Unesco across all its areas of competence. In a meeting with Unesco Director General Irina Bokova, the minister highlighted India's achievements in ...

World Science Day for Peace and Development was established by UNESCO in 2001 and is celebrated worldwide on November 10 each year. It is also known as World Science Day. It has been established to create and raise awareness ...

New Delhi, September 4: A day-long conference in Dhaka on International Literacy Day Sep 8 will focus on the importance of girls' and women's literacy and education for sustainable development, Unesco said Wednesday. To celebrate this day, a ...

New Delhi: Mobile technology is facilitating reading and improving literacy in developing countries where illiteracy rates are high and physical text scarce, a Unesco study said Thursday. The report "Reading in the Mobile Era" highlights that hundreds of ...

Attaché for Scientific and University Cooperation, Caroline Gueny-Mentre says that students who want to pursue Masters' programme in France can stay on in the nation for up to one year after they complete their course to find a job. ...

Amity's International Model United Nations had colours from not only India but from across the globe. In this three day event which concluded on Saturday, 450 students across the globe participated. The students played the roles of Delegates in eight Councils-General ...

The adult literacy rate in Myanmar has gone up hitting 95.13 percent in 2013, the country's official media said quoting its education minister Mya Aye Monday. The minister attributed the rise in the adult literacy rate to the opening of ...