View: India’s public elementary schools are in crisis — and hiring more teachers is not the solutionAlready, in 2010-11, enrolments in 57% of public elementary schools in India had dropped to 100 or fewer students. The average number of pu...
07 Jun, 2020, 10.51 PM IST
88 per cent of Chinese schools connected to internet: ReportThe number of real-name online learning spaces exceeds 63 million, state-run media reported, citing a statement issued by the ministry.
16 Sep, 2017, 05.13 PM IST
Last shot to keep job for untrained elementary tutors"The plan is to train untrained in-service teachers. If these conditions are not fulfilled they will cease to be teachers. So this is one f...
18 Aug, 2017, 11.53 AM IST
Bill introduced in Lok Sabha to amend Right to Education ActThe ministry has brought in the bill to insert a new provision in the Act -- which provides for free and compulsory education to all childr...
10 Apr, 2017, 03.28 PM IST
Six jobless youths climb atop mobile towers in Parkash Singh Badal's villageThese dramatic events only seem an example of the apparent anger against the Badals, even in their own backyard.
14 Oct, 2016, 02.09 AM IST
Government has plans to set up Kendriya Vidyalayas in all LS constituencies: Smriti IraniSmriti Irani said that the Ministry has plans to set up KVs in all LS constituencies in the country and efforts are on to get adequate budg...
21 Dec, 2015, 02.47 PM IST
World Bank approves $250 million for primary school teachers in BiharThe programme, approved by the World Bank's Board of executive Directors, will be part of the government of Bihar's Manav Vikas programme.
21 May, 2015, 11.53 AM IST
One in five primary teachers unqualified to teach young childrenWhat is even more worrying is that according to district information system for education, this condition has persisted for past many years.
05 Apr, 2015, 11.37 AM IST
- Jammu and Kashmir to soon have Right to Education Act: Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand
Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand today said that Jammu and Kashmir will soon have its own Right to Education Act.
18 Nov, 2013, 10.35 PM IST
- Odisha seeks enhancing TTI capacity
The government proposal for increasing TTI capacity is pending with the National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE).
29 Jun, 2013, 06.02 PM IST
Ten ‘Nudges’ for educationRight to Education (RTE) is a supplyside intervention by the government that will make education cheaper and, in the process, every child w...
18 Feb, 2012, 09.24 AM IST
- RTE Act will take 3 more years to show results: Sibal
Many hurdles have to be overcome for effective implementation of the Act as the states don't have the necessary "wherewithal and infrastruc...
28 Jun, 2011, 03.35 PM IST
- Innovative ICT scheme to be started in school education: Sibal
Kapil Sibal today announced plans to launch an innovative scheme to spread elementary education using Information Communication Technology ...
12 May, 2010, 07.41 PM IST
- 107 teachers training insitutes granted extension
The J&K government has granted extension to 107 Elementary Teachers Training institutes provided they follow stringent norms and ensure ade...
27 Apr, 2008, 09.44 PM IST
- NCERT trains Afghan academicians
National Council of Educational Research and Training has organised a 40-day workshop for academicians from Afghanistan.
11 Oct, 2007, 11.42 AM IST
- Planning Commission agrees to toe Arjun line
Union minister for human resource development Arjun Singh seems to have succeeded in convincing the Planning Commission to support the idea...
31 Aug, 2007, 01.02 AM IST
- Govt's elementary education programme a tech shot
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, has - away from the glare of those who talk the most about public-private partnership and and a bigger role for the ...
14 Nov, 2006, 01.17 AM IST