Mumbai: The irony is hard to miss. New Life is located above a slaughterhouse. English Dreams is wrongly spelt as InglishDreemz. But these slumtorials, today the mainstay in Mumbai’s bustees, are catering to thousands chasing a transformation that will pull them out of their jhopris. Largely located above a tailor shop or a butchery, a […]
IIMs received 208,000 applications at the end of the one-and-a-half month window for registering for CAT 2016, way below the 218,664 they received for CAT 2015 New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) on Thursday extended the registration window for the Common Admission Test (CAT) by five more days, after seeing a subdued response […]
HYDERABAD: After wading through waist-deep water, AjitYadav returned to his workplace, a food processing unit at Cherlapally, after three days on Sunday. But upon unlocking the door, he found his workplace in ruins. Worse, he was out of job because his employer said it would take months to set things in order. “I have several […]
NEW DELHI: Ashoka University, a private liberal arts institution in Haryana, will introduce a science programme for undergraduates in the academic year 2017-18. The university will have new departments dedicated to physics, biology and environmental sciences, in addition to existing departments of humanities and social sciences, mathematics, computer science and psychology, said Malabika Sarkar, principal […]
English language proficiency among the Chinese improved significantly in the past one year while India’s ranking among non-English speaking countries which use the language dropped a couple of notches, according to a new report. China improved its ranking by eight levels to be placed 39th among 72 countries, while India went down by two ranks […]
AGRA: Heightened strictness in the evaluation process of BR Ambedkar University has started showing its effect. Out of the 1,700 students whose five-year integrated law exam results were declared by the university, 90% have failed. The university administration added that the remaining 15,000 students would get their results by January 20. Earlier, for the first […]
NEW DELHI: The fate of at least 1.5 crore school-leaving students hangs in balance as chaos over moderation of marks grows. Amid indications that CBSE may move the Supreme Court against the Delhi HC order asking it not to do away with the moderation policy+ this year, several other school boards are likely to delay […]
KOCHI: A student from Kozhikode, Shafil Maheen N, got 4th rank in the highly competitive IIT-JEE (Advanced) engineering test. This is the first time a student from the state has made it to the top five in the engineering test, the results of which were announced Sunday. As many as 1.74 lakh students registered for […]
BENGALURU: With a whopping 2,023 villages reportedly not having produced a single graduate so far, the state government has undertaken a three-day campaign to ascertain facts and bring dropouts back to colleges. A study commissioned by the directorate of collegiate education (DCE) had revealed that 2,023 villages, out of the total of 27,530 villages in […]
They are not really experts. They preside over an obsolete system, preaching politically correct truisms. When I was in the process of setting up The Levelfield School in Suri, a small town in West Bengal, I had to face many questions. Some questioned my “foolhardiness” in leaving a high-paying job to set up a school. […]
