About two years ago, the heartwarming story of a remote train station in Japan keeping its doors open for a passenger to travel to and from school touched chords on the Internet. A similar story has emerged from Russia and chances are this one will warm your heart too. A St. Petersburg-Murmansk train has recently […]
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The girl, a class 9 student, was publicly shamed and asked to leave the class at the private school, her family alleges. Hyderabad: A 14-year-old girl allegedly hung herself last evening at her home in Hyderabad after being thrown out of class during an exam for not paying the fees. The police say a note […]
Higher education expenditures have ballooned to nearly half a trillion dollars a year, but despite rising costs, it is unclear that higher education is succeeding at its core mission: graduating students prepared for today’s dynamic world. Four-year completion rates for students at public schools are below 35 percent, and there continue to be massive disparities […]
Dhruv Arora recently revisited Kota, the dusty town where he had spent two of the most painful years of his life a decade ago, preparing for IIT. Arora, an alumnus of IIT-Bombay, feels Kota has become progressively worse, with coaching factories growing in size – what was once a three-storey building with 5,000 students has […]
18-hour study schedules. A brutal sorting system that segregates ‘average’ students. No fee refund policies for those who want out ‘We can’t take it anymore. Our parents have told us to return home only after cracking IIT-JEE,” said two distressed young students to psychologist Dr ML Agarwal in Jawaharnagar, Kota. The boys were both from […]
MUMBAI: Self-harm, substance abuse, bullying, sexual experimentation and the possibility of pregnancy, sleep-related issues, loneliness, weight loss, acidity and anxiety are common among students in Kota, the coaching class capital of Rajasthan famous for offering preparatory courses to IIT hopefuls, a report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences has said. MUMBAI: Self-harm, substance abuse, […]
Out of 462 cases of murder reported last year, killings over trivial issues accounted for 18 per cent of the cases, according to the Delhi Police. DELHI: A 30-year-old man was killed allegedly by three employees of an eatery following an argument after he complained about the quality of food he was served, police said […]
WASHINGTON: The deadly gun rampage at a Florida high school on Wednesday took to 18 the number of school shootings across the United States so far this year — a phenomenon that authorities seem powerless to prevent. The stunning number underscored how commonplace gun violence has become in America, with students in elementary and secondary […]
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