Beaten up and humiliated in front of his classmates, Standard IX student of Raje Shivaji Vidhyalaya in Dadar jumps to his death on the railway tracks at BycullarnA kabaddi enthusiast and an average student, Rohan was allegedly beaten up by his teachers for indiscipline, his mother Ratna (right) said
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After a hectic new year night festivities, some collegians bunk college while others attend classes forcibly. They claim that they are not mentally present even if they sit in the class.
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PUNE: When 13-year-olds Sujit and Akshay met their idol, former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, on Sunday, they were desperate to ask him one question: ‘Why does the government want to snatch away our land for building an airport and factories, and would you help save it?’ But lack of communication skills in English prevented them from doing so.
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Wait... let me explain before you all start calling me a US supporter... or Kiran labels me an Israeli lobbyst (??!!)
I came across an article in todays Times of India newspaper about a 10th standard Mumbai girl who has devised a circuit breaker for railway trains where the fans in the area above your seat will get automatically turned off if the seats are unoccupied !
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I came across an article in todays Times of India newspaper about a 10th standard Mumbai girl who has devised a circuit breaker for railway trains where the fans in the area above your seat will get automatically turned off if the seats are unoccupied !
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We will soon have a desi version of Wikipedia. Only, this one will focus on improving the education system at the school level.
The Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education is in the midst of developing an online educational resource learning and teaching materials for students, teachers and parents in both English and Marathi.
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The Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education is in the midst of developing an online educational resource learning and teaching materials for students, teachers and parents in both English and Marathi.
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For lakhs of aspirants who don’t make it to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), here’s something to cheer about. After earlier putting the IIT open courseware online, IIT-Bombay is going one step further and opening its classrooms to the world.
Starting January 2008 it will broadcast its lectures live through Edusat, the satellite which caters exclusively to the educational sector.
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“Unity in Diversity”, this phrase is widely used for our Motherland as it’s a home of multi-religious, multi-lingual, multi-caste based society. I was proud of it as a child. But as I have grown older I understood that this caste based system is actually the biggest curse. “Divide and Rule” is the most apt phrase for our motherland. This diversity has made us the most vulnerable and exploitable c
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Prices Quoted for Digital Cameras by are more than the market prices and this is not about the camera at railway stations. BMC wants to install a camera each in muncipal schools while school is struggling with the quality of basic facilities like Uniform, school bags, shoes etc. Though the price difference is big, putting cameras in schools with no seating arrangements has definately no meaning.
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Improved facilities was the reason behind this trend. “But,” he said, “the increase would have been more had the student incentives came on time. For instance, raincoats were supplied when the rainy reason was over.”
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The JJ School of Arts will have its own museum within two years. The museum, where students will display their work, is part of the plan to renovate the school premises, which is a popular heritage structure. The state government with Jindal South West Foundation (JSW) will undertake restoration.
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A school in Kandivli plans to introduce Sanskrit for students; even their family members are encouraged to attend classes
Students at Kapol Vidyanidhi International High School in Kandivli may soon start speaking an arcane ancient Indian language.The school authorities plan to introduce Sanskrit for students from Class II onwards in an effort to popularise the read more »
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A school in Kandivli plans to introduce Sanskrit for students; even their family members are encouraged to attend classes
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Middle-school children in Mumbai are subject to an interesting educational experiment: they are taught history, supposedly a boring subject, through Amar Chitra Katha comic books. While this is a novel teaching method, there are many dangers in letting children learn about important historical details through a comic book.
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Award-winning civic teachers will be roped in to revamp the BMC-run schools and suggest ways to improve the quality of teaching.
The BMC has set up six committees, comprising state- and national-level award-winning teachers, to study the education system, infrastructure, increasing student dropout rate and curriculum at its schools. read more »
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Although there is a ban of conducting interviews for kids or parents at Kindergarten admission levels there are still many schools who conduct interviews.Now parents are sending their children to some private tuition at a very young age (as young as two-and-a-half years) so that they can be well trained to attend these interviews.
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'Is sugar sweet (Yes/No)?' The bitter reality is that 30% of Maharashtra's Class V students could not answer this question in a basic written test on English.
Several Class IV students could not tell a triangle from a square or a circle, and thousands of Class V students could not write the first five letters of the English alphabet despite having studied the language for three years.
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Several Class IV students could not tell a triangle from a square or a circle, and thousands of Class V students could not write the first five letters of the English alphabet despite having studied the language for three years.
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