China can improve its higher education system by introducing incentives for students and teachers so they take learning more seriously, a Stanford professor says. Under the current system, college students are essentially guaranteed a diploma, offering little motivation to excel. Prashant Loyalka, a center research fellow at the Rural Education ... Read More »
Labour says it would restore grants to help young people in England stay in further and higher education. This would mean a return for education maintenance allowances (EMA) scrapped by the coalition government in 2010. It would also mean reversing the decision to turn maintenance grants for poorer university students ... Read More »
Today, students up and down the country are anxiously discovering their A-level results. For the majority, their future depends on the grades they achieve – their place at university, or possibly their first full-time job. Some would have you believe students’ success depends solely on their individual grit, determination, and ... Read More »
New Delhi: Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday launched an interactive programme with citizens marking two years of the MyGov platform and said the site is for those who think about the country`s development. The MyGov initiative was launched two years ago to enable citizens directly interact with ... Read More »
For Nahid Parween, a first year nursing student of two-year diploma course in Revised Auxilliary Nurse and Midwifery (RANM), learning through a Virtual Classroom is a novel experience. The digital mode of learning from a remote centre is very useful because of its novelty and interactive nature. Similarly, Pooja Kumar, ... Read More »
Zee Learn Ltd, the education arm of Essel Group, has appointed former Manipal Global Education Services executive Debshankar Mukhopadhyay as chief executive officer, as per a press statement. Mukhopadhyay, who was previously heading the educational sales – financial services & insurance division at Manipal, has over two decades experience in ... Read More »
New Delhi: Terming education as a fundamental precondition of a democracy, Vice President Hamid Ansari on Friday said apart from providing knowledge education is instrumental for any individual’s personal and political development. “The quality of education depends on elementary education. While equality of status and opportunity contribute to nation building ... Read More »
Watch complete news story of Money Guru about Financial planning for Child education and stay updated with the latest trends and statistics in the stock market, commodity market and share market! Zee Business is one of the leading and fastest growing Hindi business news channels in India. The channel has ... Read More »
Education services player Zee Learn has posted a 50.6% rise in net profit for the first quarter ended June 30, 2016. The company posted net profit of Rs 8.01 crore for the first quarter of FY17 compared to Rs 3.95 crore posted in same quarter of FY16. The company reported ... Read More »
Education favourite CSR activity among Indian companies In 2014-15, nearly Rs 8,029 crore was spent by Indian companies towards Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. An amendment to the Companies Act in 2014, made it mandatory for companies to put aside 2% of their average net profit of the three preceding ... Read More »
Hillary Clinton’s post-convention lead over Donald Trump has continued to grow as more polls have come in, according to our models. Check our forecasts for the latest numbers. Initial polls conducted after the Democratic National Convention suggest that Hillary Clinton has received a convention bounce. In fact, it appears likely ... Read More »
Chilling footage showing detained Indigenous children being tear gassed and a child being hooded and strapped to a restraint chair in Australia’s Northern Territory must serve as a wakeup call for the government on the need to urgently change its policies on juvenile detention, Amnesty International said today. The image ... Read More »
