Bombay (Mumbai): President Pranab Mukherjee says there should be no room for intolerance, prejudice and hatred in educational institutes. In fact, educational institutes should act as flag bearers for coexistence of multiple views. Addressing a special convocation of the University of Mumbai to confer Honorary Doctor of Law to famous agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan, (March […]
New Delhi: The JNU has won the Visitor’s Award for being the best university in the country because of its “unrelenting pursuit of academic excellence”, President Pranab Mukherjee today said while conferring the honour (March 6). The JNU has been in the news through the last year for all the wrong reasons including issues like […]
How does Science and Technology benefit the Physically challenged and Specially Abled people? This is the theme for the 2017 National Science Day. National Science Day is celebrated on the 28th February every year to commemorate the Indian physicist, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and his discovery of what is called ‘the Raman Scattering’ (inelastic […]
New Delhi: A toddler, along with her mother and grandmother, has approached the National Green Tribunal alleging noise and air pollution due to the activities of a reputed private school here operating in a residential area, causing health problem to the residents.(Feb 3) The residents of Ashok Vihar Phase-IV sought shifting of DAV Public School […]
New Delhi: You can’t sue a college for not giving you a ‘placement’. Education isn’t a commodity to be bought or sold or with ‘special offers’. Students are not consumers. A youth’s plea against an institute for allegedly not providing him with an internship or job as promised at the time of admission, has been […]
New Delhi: This ‘new quota proposal’ will probably be hailed throughout India! A panel has recommended reservation for girl students in IITs to address the issue of slump in the number of female students entering the prestigious institutes (Jan 15). The guys need not be worried, because ‘new seats will be created only for girls’. […]
Sir, Education is meant for the all-round development of a person. But today the whole education system merely focuses on the quantitative aspect of the students whereas their qualities somewhere seem to die under the burden of the dreams, interests, and ego of the parents and teachers. In the present education system, teachers instead of […]
Government schools in Bihar would have to deliver better education. This is obvious as the majority of students who appeared for a retest flunked their Board exams yet again. The results of the second attempt of the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) have revealed a sad state of affairs in education in the state. Only […]
Why does the government in a rush to push through the ‘New Education policy’, to bring back the system of detention in elementary schools? Why doesn’t the government and the HRD Ministry give time for vetted experts in education to discuss it? Ahead of the 64th meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) […]
New Delhi: Now, the prestigious Nalanda University is being Modi-fied. And as usual, the dictatorial manner in which things are being done is under criticism. Some call it another covert ‘surgical strike’ with termination emails being sent after midnight! The Narendra Modi government kept the governing authority of Nalanda University, including the varsity’s chancellor George […]
Sometime between Deepawali and Chhat, news trickled in from the vernacular press that a four year old girl had been abused by two women teachers at the prestigious St. Xavier’s School in Patna,the capital of Bihar. At first glance, one was not amused.Having been associated with the campaign against child abuse in Bihar since 1997, […]
Having not received salaries for almost six months, around 2,600 aggrieved teachers under the Nagaland Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers’ Association (NSSATA) on Tuesday launched second phase of stir against the State government at the Directorate of School Education (DoSE) here. The aggrieved teachers, who were on first phase of agitation boycotted classes till yesterday since […]
