Schools News

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 ...

New Delhi, June 30, 2015: Integrating education with industry, a set of schools, run out of old freight-carrying containers, are ready to be launched to provide students with job skills. Here they would be taught as well as trained on various ...

New Delhi, June 25, 2015: There has been a decline in the enrolment of students in Delhi government schools while more number of students have enrolled in unaided and private schools in the national capital over the year, according to an ...

Indian experts in the field of mathematics and science will be getting help from Japan to improve the quality of mathematics and science education in the country. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will train bureaucrats from the HRD ministry, experts ...

New Delhi, June 23, 2015: PM Narendra Modi on Monday called for each school in India to plan its own targets which it aims to achieve by 2022, the country's 75th year of independence. Reviewing the progress of the Sarva Shiksha ...

New Delhi, June 23, 2015: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today pitched for conducting an aptitude test for all students and greater synergy between the 'Digital India' initiative and related programmes of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. He made the observations while reviewing ...

New Delhi, June 23, 2015: Yoga will be introduced as a subject from class VI to X in all central government run schools and 80 out of 100 marks will be reserved for practicals during which students have to perform various ...

Ahmedabad, June 22, 2015: Former President APJ Abdul Kalam today called for the inclusion of entrepreneurship in the educational curricula in the country. "We need education that creates environment for entrepreneurship," Kalam said at the city-based Entrepreneurship Development Institute. "The education ...

Chennai, June 22, 2015: The Tamil Nadu government is recalling around 300,000 economics and history text books in which DMK president M.Karunanidhi is still listed as the state's chief minister in the preface, even four years after AIADMK chief J.Jayalalithaa replacing ...

Chennai, June 19, 2015: The Madras High Court today granted one year time to the Tamil Nadu government for formulating a comprehensive act to govern all private schools in the state. The First Bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and ...

New Delhi, June 19, 2015: The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has deputed yoga teachers working in its schools to hold free classes for citizens in its parks every morning. The civic body has also identified six 'yoga sthals' in areas ...

Mumbai, Maharashtra: All schools affiliated to CBSE, ICSE, IB, IGCSE and CIE boards are hereby advised by the education department of Maharashtra to incorporate Marathi in their curriculum. This is to ensure that the students from the schools known Marathi, however, ...

New Delhi, June 16, 2015: The New Delhi Municipal Council will soon upgrade the infrastructure and facilities in its schools across the city, a senior NDMC official said here today. "All New Delhi Municipal Council schools will soon be upgraded to ...