Education

Children with special needs appearing for Classes 10 and 12 board examinations will be able to use computer or laptops to write their exam from this year. The examination committee of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) approved the proposal on Tuesday. Candidates with special needs will

This story is of one Mansi, a teenager who started her studies from Ekal Vidyalaya and today pursuing her MBA. Mansi is from village Bhajrala in the Jogindernagar block of Mandi district in Himachal Pradesh. She is of short stature, may be mistaken for a middle school student, but wants to achieve

Four of the 66 exams centres created in Gaya for the Bihar School Examination Board’s Class X examination are all-woman centres with the centre superintendents, invigilators, static magistrates, patrolling magistrates, zonal magistrates, police officers, constables and others being women. The all

In the new academic session, those clearing Class XII board exams will have the option to join four-year integrated BA-B Ed or BSc-B Ed courses. According to a HRD ministry source, the move to drop the present two-year course in Bachelor of Education is to ensure that only serious aspirants opt to

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday has approved implementation of 'Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF)' scheme at a total cost of Rs.1650 crore for a period of seven years beginning 2018-19. The Prime Minister has emphasized the importance of innovation and technology for the progress and

Students in business schools, excluding IIMs, will have to take a course on Indian ethics and concepts, according to a revised curriculum for the master’s degree and postgraduate diplomas in business management. It also includes lessons on Kautilya’s Arthashastra, an ancient treatise on statecraft

Students now will be able to refer to the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s advice on how to tackle exam challenges in his book, ‘Exam Warriors’. It seeks to help spread smiles during examinations, viewing them as occasions to celebrate learning with festive joy. The book was launched at a function in

To fulfil the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide thrust to good quality technical and higher education in the backward areas of the country , the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), for the first time, has recruited more than 1200 highly qualified and motivated graduates

Teachers of 17-year-old Shruti Tiwari, a resident of Matehiya village in Lakhimpur Kheri district's Bheera town, say that she will be remembered by Class X students in UP for years to come. Shruti, who found herself struggling with science subjects in 2015, started making her own notes in Hindi

The Assam government on Friday distributed scooties to 1,000 girl students who had excelled in the State Board Class XII final examinations in 2017, with chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal saying it was one move on part of his government to accelerate the process of women empowerment in the state

Believe it or not, Raj Kumar Vaish, aged 98 years, has received a Masters degree. May be this is a global record. Bihar Governor Satyapal Malik and his Meghalaya counterpart Ganga Prasad on Tuesday rose from their seats as a student of Nalanda Open University came on stage to receive his masters

As part of its efforts to give a digital push to higher education, the HRD ministry has decided to offer nearly 300 online courses in Hindi and 10 other Indian languages on its online course portal Swayam. To be launched in the next three months, these courses include subjects such as cloud