The Right to Education Act (RTE) has the capacity to usher in wide-ranging changes and teachers could play an important role in successful implementation of the landmark legislation, Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan said.
The Act can bring efficiency in the field of education and introduce ..
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pitched for continuous assessment of benefits derived by children through education besides tracking attendance, while voicing concern over poor levels of student learning.
Addressing 'Teacher Awardees' on the eve of Teacher's Day, Singh said the last eight years had ..
A PIL has been filed in Madras High Court, seeking a directive to Tamil Nadu government to direct colleges not to insist on payment of fees by first generation graduate students from economically and socially weaker sections, pending payment under a government scheme.
When the petition came up for ..
The UN's labor office says youth unemployment is likely to rise globally to 12.9 per cent by 2017 as more young people leave the work force and the euro crisis spreads to emerging economies.
The current rate of unemployment among youths aged 15 to 24 is 12.7 per cent globally.
An ..
A group of engineering students of Amity School of Engineering and Technology have designed a state-of-the-art racing car which was put on display at the institution's campus.
"It is the fourth in the chain of innovative cars and prototypes designed and developed by the engineering students of ..
Two teachers from Sikkim have been selected for the National Award for Teachers, government sources said here.
The two teachers are - Amrit Thakuri, headmaster, Government Primary School, Posokey, Rongli, East Sikkim and Lok Nath Koiralao, Government Junior High School, Lingee Payong, South Sikkim, the ..
Information Technology and Communications Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah said, the Andhra Pradesh Government will develop a 'Media City' here with the ultimate objective of making Hyderabad the "animation capital of the world".
"The vision of the Andhra Pradesh Government is to develop a ..
Government managed passage of a key legislation in Parliament for creation of six AIIMS-like premier medical institutes across the country despite uproar by BJP members over coal allocation issue.
The passing of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (Amendment) Bill, 2012, in the Rajya Sabha now ..
With political tensions rising days ahead of legislative polls, Hong Kong students and teachers protested for the sixth consecutive day against plans to introduce Chinese patriotism classes.
Protesters at the government headquarters said they would not vote for parties that supported "national ..
It's neither a hefty pay raise nor more holidays that employees crave most at their workplace!
According to a new US survey, what most workers want is a little flexibility.
A survey of 1,100 working adults by a US staffing firm found that nearly half of workers would trade a ..