THE UNION GOVERNMENT plans to make education less focused on examinations so as to relieve the burden on students and unlock the creative talent in children. According to Union Minister for Human Resource Development, the ...
PROF. PARVIN SINCLAIR, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), has been appointed Director, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi. She will hold the post for five years from the ...
PRIME MINISTER Dr. Manmohan Singh has called upon the younger generation to pursue Mathematics at the advanced level to continue the high standards of teaching in the discipline at the school and college levels. Inaugurating ...
THE INDIAN SCHOOL Certificate (ISC) examination (Class XII) conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) will be held from February 13, 2012, while the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) examination ...
THE CENTRAL BOARD of Secondary Education (CBSE) proposes to digitise the assessment of answer sheets of its examinations. According to a CBSE spokesman, a pilot project will be conducted in Delhi for the English language ...
THE CENTRAL BOARD of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to do away with board examinations for Class X students from the next academic session, 2012-13. It means that there will be no board exams for ...
CONVENTIONAL LOGIC says that alternating current (AC) is more suitable for transmission over long distances than direct current (DC) is. We were taught so when we studied Physics in school. We were told the same ...
THE UNION GOVERNMENT has cleared a proposal to set up an umbrella body to supervise and monitor all aspects of higher education in universities and technical institutes, including distance education, but excluding medical and agriculture ...
INDIA’S ‘MISSILE MAN’ and former President Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam has called upon all stake-holders to make primary education a priority. Addressing a conference on education in New Delhi, Dr. Kalam said that ...
INFOSYS CHAIRMAN EMERITUS N. R. Narayana Murthy has said that there is great power in India’s youth and the country should be proud of it. Speaking after receiving the Mother Teresa Memorial Award in Bengaluru, ...