Schools News

The Union Budget 2015 saw mixed reactions for the budget in the Education sector. While higher education, skill development and jobs have received more importance, we feel, basic issues in the educational sector have been neglected or have seen very less ...

Patna, March 2: Japan's leading multinational imaging and electronics company Ricoh today discussed partnering Super 30 founder and mathematician Anand Kumar to provide quality education at primary level in government schools in Bihar under a UN programme. Takanobu Tanaka, a ...

Bhubaneswar, February 28 : Recognising the role of education in social welfare and economic prosperity, Aditya Aluminium, an Aditya Birla Group Company, has set up several learning facilities in and around its project area in Odisha's Sambalpur district. "Education ...

Lucknow, February 26: Industry body Assocham today said the Centre should look at exempting all educational products, used by school and college students, from both central and state taxes. This will help in promoting education and providing educational aids ...

Kochi, February 24: A leading private school in Kerala - The Choice School - has offered free education to the three winners of this year's President's National Bravery Awards from the state. Choice Group chief Jose Thomas made this announcement ...

Mecca (Saudi Arabia), February 23: The head of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious seat of learning, today called on for education reform in Muslim countries in an effort to contain the spread of religious extremism. Speaking at counter-terrorism forum ...

New Delhi, February 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday confessed to students that he himself had been an ordinary student and also had bad hand-writing -- which could explain how he passed. In his 'Mann Ki Baat' radio ...

New Delhi, February 23: Exhorting school students, especially boys, to believe in themselves, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday praised girl students. "They do well in examinations despite helping their mothers in household work", he said. In his 'Mann Ki ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct the Central Teacher Eligibility Test February 2015 (CTET February 2015) on February 22, 2015. The CTET test will be held at 988 test centers across the country and overseas, ...

Cairo, February 21 : The Islamic State (IS) Sunni radical group Friday began distributing educational material for six subjects to schools in the areas under its control in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported. SOHR noted that ...

London, February 21: Delaying school entry for children could lead to poorer academic performance, according to a new study. Many parents are keen to hold their children back a year if they were born prematurely or in the summer months, ...

Kochi, February 20: Thousands of school children across Kerala will be given computer programming kits and trained to write software code under a project designed to create a resource pool of skilled IT professionals and entrepreneurs. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy ...

Kolkata, February 11: The Japanese consulate here will display audio-visuals of the nation's traditions for the students of a school in West Bengal Thursday to generate awareness about the East Asian country. As part of a school visit programme for ...

Kolkata, Feb 6: To make children understand what rights they are entitled to, West Bengal's child rights panel wants the students to be taught about them as part of the school curriculum. Ashokendu Sengupta, chairperson of the State Commission ...