Education

Thirty eight per cent of the students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) who appeared for the JEE Mains examination , have qualified, according to the results that came out last week. JNVs are co-education residential schools that come under the Ministry of Human Resource Development for children

IT’S THE morning assembly at the government secondary school on Ladhowali road in Jalandhar, and 13-year-old Prabhleen, a student of Class 9, steps up to deliver an eloquent speech in English on “social media”. “It can make or break a person,” she says. “I appeal to all my dear friends to use it

A glass cabinet filled with trophies won by Sana Niyaz adorns a pink wall of a small room the 17-year-old shares with her four sisters and mother in their Old Delhi home. The family has yet another reason to be proud — Sana, a student of an Urdu medium girls government school near Jama Masjid, is

Children at 47 homeless night shelters across Delhi may get a chance at receiving formal education with the government planning an admission drive for children between the ages of six and 14 years. These night shelters are located in the areas of Kalkaji, Munirka, Kilokari, Dwarka, Sarai Kale Khan

A group of engineering students from a private Ghaziabad college were awarded the Neil Armstrong Award for Best Design in the college category in the 25th Annual Rover Challenge held from April 12-13 at the US Space and Rocket Center in Alabama. The four-member team from Krishna Institute of

Until September last year, little separated Government Primary School at Chananwala village in Fazilka from the others in Punjab. About 13 km from Fazilka city, and among the last schools near the India-Pakistan border, it too had leaking roofs and blocked bathrooms, students had started moving to

The Central Board of Secondary Education has asked all its 22,000 affiliated schools to teach arts education as a compulsory subject to students of all classes from the current academic session. The move is part of a drive to promote experiential learning by integrating the arts and to inculcate an

The number of children in Special Training Centres who could not even identify the alphabet reduced by around 19% after a reading campaign held in December 2018, as per figures presented by the education department’s Universal Elementary Education (UEE) mission. Special Training Centres are bridge

The final results of Civil Services Examination (CSE), 2018 have been declared on 5 th April, 2019. The following are the highlights of the result: The Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2018 was conducted on 3 rd June, 2018. 10,65,552 candidates applied for this examination, out of which 4

Even before he topped the UPSC examination Friday, Jaipur’s Kanishak Katariya had an impressive record. The 26-year-old topped the IIT-JEE in the SC category in 2010 and graduated from IIT-Bombay in 2014, eventually going on to work for Samsung in South Korea. But more than money, his motivation was

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will offer about 500 seats to candidates from economically weaker sections this year, IIT officials familiar with the matter said. In January, the Centre had announced 10% reservations in jobs and educational institutions to economically weaker sections

Come April, students studying in 24 government schools in the capital will be seen developing their “entrepreneurial mindsets” as part of the Delhi government’s Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum (EMC). Around 24,000 students from class 9 onwards will be listening to stories of entrepreneurs and