London, July 2 (IANS) Children may love to see pictures on their storybooks, but having more illustrations than one on a page could result in poorer word learning among pre-schoolers, new research has found. The…
Shimla, July 2 (IANS) To improve the standard of education in over 14,000 government elementary schools, the Himachal Pradesh government has started a programme to identify problems and challenges and find out solutions, an official…
Bengaluru, July 1 (IANS) India will set up 20 world class institutions across the country to promote research and innovation, said Union Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday. “The government has decided to…
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) The Delhi University colleges have announced their second cut-offs for this admission season with the top colleges still trading in the above-90 realm for more popular courses. In the announcement…
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The Delhi Assembly on Friday passed a resolution demanding 85 per cent reservation in the recruitment of guest and permanent teachers for those graduating from universities in Delhi. Replying to…
Gurugram, June 30 (IANS) Eminent academic P.B. Sharma will take charge as President of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) on Saturday. Sharma is currently the Vice Chancellor of Amity University Haryana, Gurugram. He was…
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Centre’s response to two petitions challenging the grant of seven extra marks to all candidates who had appeared for the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination…
London, June 30 (IANS) An 11-year-old Indian-origin boy here has scored 162 in the prestigious Mensa IQ test, two points higher than geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Arnav Sharma, from Reading town in southern…
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Students from various parts of the country witnessed a live asteroid watch at the Nehru Planetarium on Friday in celebration of Asteroid Day organised by astronomy education organisation SPACE India….
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) The Delhi assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution to reserve 85 per cent seats for the students belonging to Delhi in the colleges funded by the Delhi government, which…
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) To make their students more competitive globally, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in India (ICAI) on Thursday announced changes in its syllabus and exam pattern which will be applicable from…
Bhubaneswar, June 29 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said the state public sector undertakings (PSUs) will facilitate coaching for 200 students next year to compete with other students for admission in the…
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) The CBI on Thursday announced Rs 10 lakh reward for information about Najeeb Ahmed, a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student who went missing in October last year. “The CBI will…
Gurugram, June 29 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said a medical college named after Mata Sheetla Devi will soon come up in Gurugram. The Municipal Corporation Gurugram, the Gurugram Metropolitan Development…
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) The National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) on Wednesday requested the Delhi University administration to look into the problem of slow university portal caused by increase in the website traffic,…
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) The FICCI Alliance for Re-Imagining School Education (FICCI Arise) on Wednesday advised schools to be extra sensitive towards students and parents with regard to payment of revised fees. Referring to…
Visakhapatnam, June 28 (IANS) Greater Visakhapatnam Smart City Corporation Limited (GVSCCL) on Wednesday announced a three-year partnership with IL&FS Education and Technology Services Ltd, a premier partner of Google for education, to provide holistic education…
Dehradun, June 28 (IANS) Students from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) here have left behind 39 teams from across the world by winning the first position at the global aerospace competition CanSat held…
San Francisco, June 28 (IANS) In what is being hailed as a “groundbreaking discovery”, astronomers have for the first time observed two supermassive black holes orbiting around each other in a distant galaxy. In an…
London, June 28 (IANS) Every school in London is to be offered knife detectors to enable students to be screened for hidden weapons, Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced. It forms one part of the biggest…