The odds are good that privatizing education will be part of the agenda for President-elect Donald J. Trump’s administration. The Republican platform calls for increasing the role of banks in giving out student loans. And Mr. Trump and the platform advocate an expansion of both vouchers, which enable students to ... Read More »
For almost a decade now, 34-year-old Niranjan Giri, a night school teacher, says he has had only one priority — making night schools popular. He travels to different corners of the city, convincing those who can’t access school during the day to take up education in night schools. “Night shift ... Read More »
Prominent figures in science and technology have been acknowledged in the Queen’s New Year Honours, alongside sportspeople, entrepreneurs and philanthropists. The 2017 New Year’s Honours List has been billed as the most diverse and inclusive so far, with more than half of the honours going to women and more ethnic ... Read More »
WHEN they started working on it, their vision was to create a positive impact on the world. For education start-up Gradeup, its young founders — Shobhit Bhatnagar, Vibhu Bhushan and Sanjeev Kumar — saw ‘education as the most fundamental way of empowering people’. “With the rise of mobile phones and ... Read More »
BHOPAL: Ministers or bureaucrats associated with the departments of health and medical education being removed after eruption of controversies has become common enough. The BJP government may have completed 13 years in power but the state of affairs in the Hamidia Hospital – city’s biggest government hospital – is the ... Read More »
The Madhya Pradesh government on Friday effected a major reshuffle at the upper echelons of the medical education department soon after chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan conducted a “surprise inspection” at Hamidia Hospital, the teaching facility of the Gandhi Medical College (GMC), Bhopal. Additional chief secretary (medical education) Prabhanshu Kamal ... Read More »
Jharkhand Governor Droupadi Murmu Sunday said that education plays a vital role in laying the basic foundation in one’s life and is necessary to be successful. “It develops students’ personality, sets up physical and mental standard and transforms their living status,” Murmu said at the Golden Jubilee Year Celebration of Jawahar ... Read More »
People who leave school without a school certificate are more than twice as likely to have a heart attack as those with a university degree, researchers said. ‘The lower your education, the more likely you are to have a heart attack or a stroke – that’s the disturbing but clear ... Read More »
People who leave school without a school certificate are more than twice as likely to have a heart attack as those with a university degree, a new study has warned. Researchers from Sax Institute in Australia investigated the links between education and cardiovascular disease events – such as a heart ... Read More »
Amin, 18, became a refugee when his family fled Syria for Lebanon five years ago. He has not set foot in school since. With his father unable to get legal status or work, responsibility for supporting the family of seven fell to Amin. A seventh grader when he left his ... Read More »
A group led by Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, was hit with $5.2 million in fines for blatant election law violations in Ohio in 2008. When All Children Matter didn’t pay that fine, late fees added another $91,000. Now, Democratic senators are pushing for her to pay before ... Read More »
The absence of a strong regulatory framework remains a key challenge to ensuring quality of ECE programmes nationwide Across India, a lack of effective regulation appears to be eroding the overall quality of Early Childhood Education (ECE). ECE holds the key to every child’s lifelong development, as neuroscience research has ... Read More »
