Education

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

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