Himachal assembly wants elementary level board exams
byShimla: The Himachal Pradesh assembly Monday unanimously passed a resolution on school education that the state should be allowed to conduct board exams of…
Education
(After 2) Right to Education haunted by teacher shortage? (April 1 is the 3rd anniversary of RTE Act’s implementation)
byNew Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Three years since it came into being and promised free and compulsory education to all children in the 6-14…
US University, AISFM agree on exchange programme
byHyderabad, March 31 (IANS) The US’s Northwestern University’s School of Communication and Annapurna International School of Film and Media (AISFM) have joined hands for…
‘Good education limited to cities’
byVasco (Goa), March 30 (IANS) Educational researcher Sugata Mitra said here Saturday that good education in India was limited to only those in cities…
This Andhra village has lessons to teach
byGangadevipalli (Andhra Pradesh): If India lives in its villages, then the model it perhaps must follow is Gangadevipalli, a hamlet in Andhra Pradesh’s Warangal district…
NIT Agartala students face suspension over Facebook comment
byAgartala: A disciplinary panel of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) here has proposed to suspend 57 students for six months over a comment on…
His life is a crusade to make Delhi better
byNew Delhi: It took Ravi Kalra, now 44, almost 20 years to finally set up an NGO and do what he always wanted to…
Controversial UPSC notification put on hold
byNew Delhi (IANS) The government Friday put on hold a controversial notification making proficiency in English a requirement for aspirants of the Indian Administrative Service…
Rise in number of jobless professionals in Kerala
byThiruvananthapuram(IANS) The number of unemployed professionals in Kerala continued to rise reaching 1.69 lakh by September 2012, up from 1.63 lakh for the year ended…
Early School
byLast week when schools reopened across Himachal after the winter vacations, seeing little children all dressed up in their new uniforms, showing off their…