Education

Education is a subject in the concurrent list of the Constitution and majority of the schools are under the control of the respective State Governments. Under the Integrated scheme for School Education - Samagra Shiksha, effective from the year 2018-19, there is a provision for supporting States and

The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) conducts periodic national surveys to assess learning achievement of children in Classes – III, V, VIII and X. The National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2017 was held on 13 th November for assessing the competencies developed by the

The Central Government has introduced a 4-year Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) for pre-service training, to offer graduation with certain specializations built into it namely Primary and Secondary Education. In this regard, a Gazette Notification dated 29 th March, 2019 has been

The ministry of human resource development (MHRD) plans to train principals and teachers of nearly 1.2 million government schools across the country to identify and address mental health issues in children, a senior official said. The move is aimed at preventing violence involving students on school

Seventeen-year-old Aviraj Chaudhary, one of 11 children of poor, illiterate tribal farmers, has become the first person from Dang district to have secured an admission in IIT-Delhi. Chaudhary will soon be joining the Textile Technology Engineering course at the premier technological institute

Union HRD Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, while replying to the starred question in Rajya Sabha said that the deadline to submit suggestions on draft of New Education Policy is extended for a month i.etill 31 st , July 2019. The draft of New Education policy has been put on a public domain

Indian Banks' Association (IBA) has formulated and circulated to all Member Banks including State Bank of India (SBI) a ‘Model Education Loan Scheme’ for providing financial support to meritorious students for pursuing higher education in India and abroad. Salient features of the Scheme inter-alia

A new edition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's book 'Exam Warriors' is in the making, as per reports. The earlier edition of the book was launched on 3rd February 2018, by the then HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar and the then EA Minister Sushma Swaraj. Some twenty lakh copies of this book has been

Shakira Gariya, 17, is all set to be the first girl from her village of Bodhan in Surat to become a doctor, having cleared the recent NEET exam with 570 marks. Her father, a daily wage labourer who fends for the family by pulling handcarts, is over the moon. Shakira is among the 30 students from

The classroom of a physics teacher in a New York school is connected to one in a Delhi government school through Twitter. As students in their senior years in the Brooklyn, New York school sit at their tables, Manu Gulati (36), a mentor teacher with the Delhi government, helps them practice

Ekal Vidyalayas or One Teacher Schools operating in villages is changing lives of village children. The methodology of teaching through games and stories has grown interest among the children towards education. After Ekal started its operation, the attendance in nearby government schools have also

University Grants Commission (UGC), the higher education regulator, on Monday issued a framework for a faculty induction programme for newly-recruited college and university teachers. The teachers will now have to attend a mandatory one-month course focusing on Constitutional values, pedagogy