Education

Above: A Delhi High Court bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V Kameswar Rao  said that there is no privacy issue in having CCTVs in classrooms/Photo: edgecctv.com The Delhi High Cour...

~By Meha Mathur In the otherwise vitiated atmosphere in higher education, there is almost uniform response to the new regulations on plagiarism approved by the University Grants Commission, wherein...

~By Sucheta Dasgupta It is both a vindication and a setback. After a couple of flip-flops, a hunger strike and much heartburn, West Bengal’s premier institute of learning, the autonomous Jadavpur U...

Above: Children in a classroom at a private school in UP. Enrolment of weaker section kids is far from satisfactory Private schools in the country are guilty of ignoring the Right to Education Act ...

Above: Young school children carrying heavy bags/Photo: UNI The HRD ministry’s move to ease the burden of students has drawn flak from educationists who say this will not make them globally compete...

NLIU students in Bhopal raise placards to highlight their protest Students of this prestigious university in Bhopal are up in arms and one of their main grouses is against the director, whom they a...

This controversial rule of some schools could well go against the Juvenile Justice Act and invite legal action ~By Sujit Bhar Schools and their rules have come under the radar after the gruesome...

The recent apex court ruling that children in the age group 10-14 years should not be expected to commute long distances to schools is a pertinent one. But it remains to be seen if it can be applied a...

The medical entrance exam has created so much turmoil in Tamil Nadu that the Supreme Court was forced to take note of it and pass an order for peace to be maintained in this state ~By R Ramasubrama...

 Above: A “topless” demonstration by Shiksha Mitras in Mathura. Photo: UNI Shiksha Mitras, or para-teachers, filled the basic educational infrastructure gap for children. In Uttar Pradesh, a severe...