Education News

Asha Khemka, an India-born educationist in Britain, has been named for the highest British civilian award for women for her services to education. Khemka, principal and chief executive of West Nottinghamshire College at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, has been named Dame Commander ...

Daly College Indore, recently conducted the 74th IPSC Head Conclave. During the inaugural ceremony, Minister of Rural Development, Jairam Ramesh says "Public schools in India are only for the rich and a large population of children are aloof of the quality ...

The Centre today said it will soon announce a special fund to the tune of US$ 3 billion for uplift of the Muslim people by providing infrastructure, mainly for education. "We need infrastructure. Indian Muslims need education and for that we ...

More than a hundred thousand enthusiasts marched ahead to support Run for Inclusion on December 22, 2013, Sunday following the International Day of Human Solidarity (20th December) in the three countries of the Asian continent. These messengers of inclusion expressed solidarity with a ...

New Delhi: Congress vice-president, Rahul Gandhi said, that the education system in India requires a reinvention and a connection must be established between higher education and the industry. In India, education and industry are considered as two different things, said ...

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 ...

Children in Jammu and Kashmir would soon be able to avail free education till elementary level, Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand indicated. Stating that the government is ready with a law providing every child aged between four to fourteen years ...

The government of West Bengal, has come up with a new policy decision with technical education department to have an integrated skill development programme with an aim to create more job opportunities. The government has also decided to merge the ...

Wiley has partnered with new-age digital education services company, GreyCampus, to launch a series of online and classroom training programs in India on IT Certifications for in-demand skills like Big Data, Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, Project Management and Cyber Security, among ...

To begin with, learning and education are two different things. Although, at some point in time they appear same, they are still different. Learning is an ongoing process that comes naturally to any person. Babies learn things as they grow. ...

Schools have been sacred places of learning right from the time of gurukuls. They still are but only much more teach-savvy. Classrooms today are no more mundane spaces with just chairs, benches and blackboards. The technology-based teaching tools today only ...

A thoughtful question. Should we really be spending our time on things that we need not know? Is it worth being educated on things which we can do without? For instance, does one need to be educated about picking up what ...

The Rotary International group will set up 100 schools across India to impart quality education to children, an official of its India unit said Thursday. Total literacy in India was still a dream and Rotarians have taken a pledge to reach ...

The future of any country depends on its educational development, said Dr Raghunath Mashelkar, former director-general of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, here today. He delivered the 54th convocation address at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University here this evening. ...