Students in schools should be made to enjoy the process of learning. Once this happens, children will not only learn better, but will also overcome their fear of appearing in the examinations. It is the ...
India is a huge country and has a mammoth education system to match. The sheer size of India’s educational system presents a huge opportunity for information technology (IT). Schools are now looking at IT as ...
In a society richly steeped in culture, traditions, heritage and multilingualism, we need to reflect on transforming the attitude towards education. The educational system must allow for the fact that there are different ways of ...
A friend of ours narrates this little tale: “When studying for our diploma in electrical engineering more than 25 years ago, me and my classmates used to discuss quite a many things technical. One topic ...
The system of education in India is gradually changing. From being primarily focused on exams and marks, it is now getting focused also on creativity and critical thinking. This has come from the realisation that ...
INDIA HAS offered to help build one of the world’s most advanced optical telescopes. The Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) has sent a letter of interest stating that it wants to become a partner ...
THE GOVERNMENT OF KERALA plans to set up science centres in every district in the state to popularise science. According to Kerala Minister for Education P. K. Abdu Rabb, the government would shortly chalk out ...
WASHINGTON, 8th December, 2011:- The Kepler Mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States has confirmed its first planet in the ‘habitable zone,’ the region where liquid water could exist ...
LONDON, 26th November, 2011:- The world now officially has three more elements, taking the total count of known elements to 112. The names of the three new elements were approved by the International Union of ...
THE CENTRAL BOARD of Secondary Education (CBSE) will establish science hubs in schools to encourage focus on science and technology. Schools that have been winning CBSE’s national-level science exhibition since 2004 will get science hubs ...