Education

Many must have heard of the "Super 30" started by Anand Kumar in 2002 for coaching underprivileged children to get into the prestigious IIT. A total of 422 students out of 480 from Super-30 coaching institute have qualified in IIT-JEE since it was started. This year 26 of their 30 students got

As many as 26 of the 30 students trained by famed coaching institute Super 30 have cleared the JEE-Advanced 2018 for admission to India’s premiere IITs, its founder Anand Kumar said on Sunday. Onirjit Goswami, Suraj Kumar, Yash Kumar and Prashant Das — all from extremely modest backgrounds — are

When Shankuntala Kale, chairperson of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, was announcing SSC results for the first time in her career, she was aware that a village in Ambegaontaluka was proud of its daughter who had made it to the topmost position in the board. Kale

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) books that are available online may now include video content along with text. The academic body is considering a proposal named Energised Textbooks under which books for higher classes may have digital links to multimedia material where

Adarsh Vidyalayas, or model schools, will be set up in the state's 68 assembly constituencies, Himachal Pradesh's Education Minister Suresh Bhardwaj said here on Monday. Ten of these model schools will be opened this year and a provision of Rs 25 crore has been made, he said. The minister said that

The mark sheets, pass and migrations certificates of all the 28 lakh candidates of CBSE of Class X and Class XII examinations are available in the students' digital lockers. These digital documents are digitally signed, digilocker verified and also have QR codes. This can be accessed https://cbse

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday showered praises on D Prakash Rao, a tea seller from Cuttack, for his noble deed of educating poor slum kids of his locality. Modi narrated Rao’s story while addressing the nation during his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’. “Rao has been a tea vendor in

Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar launched the ‘ SamagraShiksha’ - an integrated scheme for school education extending support to States from pre-school to senior secondary levels for the first time in New Delhi on Thursday. The Scheme is a paradigm shift in the

Fifteen-year-old Abhay Gupta did not have a study table or enough space in his one-room home to keep his books. The teen prepared for his ICSE exams under streetlights, perched on a packing case a few yards away from his father’s bookstall on a Park Street pavement. Yet, the braveheart — a student

Adeepur village in Tijara Tehsil of Alwar that recorded zero literacy for women in 2011 census report has seen zero girl drop outs in its primary school in 2017-18 academic year. The literacy rates of women in all these tehsils was above 30%, has over 100 schools where enrolment of girls is at par

In 2013-14, Kumar launched a free educational empowerment programme, called ‘Ente Kongappadam (my Kongappadam)’, giving tuitions to children from the colony who were in Classes VIII, IX and X. He roped in students from NSS Engineering College to volunteer as teachers and started morning and evening

Students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas run by Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti under Union Ministry of Human Resource Development have shown excellent results in Joint Entrance Examination Main 2018 conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education. Joint Entrance Examination is conducted for admission to