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. […]
It’s important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased. A declaration of members’ interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to you about reading. I’m going to tell you that libraries are important. I’m going to suggest that reading fiction, […]
The upcoming ban on the use of calculators in most maths exams for 11-year-olds in UK schools reminds me of a persistent concern in education: when do the tools we use to learn become crutches we can’t do without? When I was in school, we had to analyse the roots of novel words to make […]
