Education

Delhi has 166 Special Training Centres (STCs) to run bridge courses for out-of-school children (OOSC). 122 of these are in government schools. It is estimated that Delhi may have about one lakh OOSC. The Directorate of Education intends to ask each school - municipal and government -- to start one

This is the story of the Bastar region where Maoists in the forests of Chhattisgarh do not let concrete structures to be built, even if it is for schools. The reason being that they fear that these concrete structures could also be used as camps for security forces. The locals with a zeal to get

केंद्रीय मानव संसाधन विकास मंत्री श्री प्रकाश जावड़ेकर ने आज कहा कि शीघ्र ही लोगों को घरों में अच्छे शिक्षकों से पढ़ने का अवसर मिलेगा। ऐसा संभव होगा डीटीएच और केबल टीवी के माध्यम से। इसमें कोई भी शिक्षक यदि किसी एक विषय में अच्छा है तो उसे भी पढ़ाने का अवसर मिलेगा। साथ ही छात्रों को भी अच्छे शिक्षकों

We have been reading a lot on schools run by government and NGOs for slum kids. However, many a times we have seen that once enrolled it is not easy to retain these children. The drop out rate is very high. The parents are not very interested and sometimes even resist any attempt at all that is

Centre approves proposal for initiation of the 3rd Phase of TEQIP, which will be implemented as a ‘Central Sector Scheme’ with total project outlay of Rs 3,600 crore. HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said that the focus in this phase would be on seven low income states (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand

Rajasthan has become the first state in the country to rope in BEd students as interns for teaching in government schools. The state has 2.59 lakh teachers and falls short of 60,000 teachers to meet the proper student-teacher ratio. This is a right step to fill the gap of teachers. And

Another inspirational story from Madhya Pradesh. A tribal girl, Asha Gond, 16, is all set to go to Oxford, UK to study English. She is from Janwaar village in Panna district of MP. Asha was encouraged by a German woman, Ulrike Reinhard, who has created a skatepark in Janwaar and trains school-going

Yesterday we had posted a news on how Malvika Joshi, 17, got admission in the renowned MIT even without schooling. (The link to this is http://bharatmahan.in/positive-news/mumbai-girl-enters-mit-without-schooling-363). In today's HT there is an interview of Malvika's mother, who had taken the bold

We only hear of news of the increasing percentage being scored by students in Boards and then hear of the cut off percentage which keep on rising every year. Some even jokingly ask when are we to see the cut off percentage crossing 100 to get admission in a high profile college. In midst of all this

कभी माउस ही नही पकड़ी आंगनबाड़ी सेविका ने सीखा कम्प्यूटर श्रीमति कमलेश (जोंकों) (आंगनबाड़ी सेविका) ग्राम मुरहातु में अपनी शासकीय सेवा देती है । कम्प्यूटर सीखाया जा रहा है। मुझे बहुत खुशी हुई मैंने इसे अवसर मानकर कम्प्यूटर का प्रशिक्षण बहुत अच्छे तरीके से लिया जिसमें Note Pad, Word, Excel, Publisher

सुगम्य पुस्तकालय- दृष्टिबाधित लोगों के लिए एक ऑनलाइन पुस्तकालय का शुभारंभ सुगम्य डिजिटल भारत की तरफ एक कदम आगे बढ़ते हुए ‘सुगम्य पुस्तकालय’ (दृष्टिबाधित लोगों के लिए एक ऑनलाइन पुस्तकालय) का शुभारंभ आज विधि एवं न्याय और संचार एवं सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी मंत्री श्री रविशंकर प्रसाद ने किया। समाजिक न्याय और

In IITs, till now, all the students compulsorily stayed in the hostels. However, in the IIT Council meet on Tuesday a decision has been taken to allow non-resident students to get enrolled. This has been done primarily, with a goal to increase the number of seats to 100,000 by 2020. This will help