The Delhi government is starting a 10-month-long campaign to help students connect with “constitutional values”. The programme, which will run in government as well as private schools, will start on July 1. Students from classes VI to XII in all government and private schools will be required to
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Students planning to apply in the Delhi University (DU) will have more opportunities to look forward to in the upcoming academic session, 2019-20, as the varsity’s academic council (AC) has decided to introduce 30 new courses, at both the under graduation and the post graduation level, in around 20
Union HRD Minister, Prakash Javadekar while addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday, informed that in a landmark decision, the Government has decided that from the academic year 2019-20 itself, 10 percent Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota will be implemented across 40, 000
On the evening of November 3, when Zeeshan Mushtaq, 16, was preparing for his Class 10 exams at his uncle’s home at Kanipora in South Kashmir’s Shopian district, a gunbattle broke out between militants and security forces in a village nearby. As the firing went on all night, Zeeshan says, they put
In a bid to relieve pressure on students, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced that students who do not wish to pursue mathematics at the senior secondary level will be able to opt for a simpler question paper in the Class X board examinations from 2020 onward. In a circular
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be interacting with a cross section of Students, Teachers and Parents for another exciting edition - Pariksha Pe Charcha 2.0 at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi on 29 th January’19. Salient features of “Pariksha Pe Charcha 2.0”- It is a unique interaction where students
Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar today announced the approval an increase of 5000 seats in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) for the Academic Year 2019-20. At present the number of seats in JNVs, residential schools for talented rural children, are 46600. The addition of
Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar said that innovation in teaching is very important and only teachers of this country have the capabilities to change education scenario of the nation. He also said that only teachers can make education more relevant by their innovative
Universities offering distance education courses will now open the window for fresh enrolments twice in an academic year — from January till February and from July till August — as higher education sector regulator UGC has laid down the norms in this regard. Over 1.5 million students had enrolled
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) had embarked on a major and new initiative called 'Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds' (SWAYAM), which provides one integrated platform and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) portal for online courses, using Information and
Each block with over 50% tribal population and over 20,000 tribals to have EMRSs 462 new Eklavya Model Residential Schools to set up Autonomous Society under M/o Tribal Affairs to run the EMRSs Cabinet approves revamping of ‘Eklavya Model Residential Schools’ The Cabinet has given its in-principle
In June this year, Rahul Patil (18) cleared the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test and got admission in MBBS at AIIMS. Hailing from a Dalit family, with eight siblings and parents who work as construction labourers at JNU, the exam was tough to crack. “I worked very hard, I’m the only person in