World Bank Grants USD 255.5 Million Loan to Enhance Technical Education in India
World Bank’s Loan to India Aims to Improve Technical Education Quality and Gender Equity Loan will support project to upgrade curricula, improve research and internship opportunities, and promote greater gender equity in technical education News: The World Bank has approved a USD 255.5 million loan to help India improve the quality of its technical education…
Bombay High Court dismisses plea challenging 75% marks criteria for IIT admission in Class 12 exam
The Bombay High Court has been hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the eligibility criteria for admission to prestigious Indian institutions like IITs, NITs, and IIITs. The petitioner, Anubha Srivastava Sahai said that the eligibility criteria is unfair to the students and should be either removed or relaxed. The eligibility criteria for admission into…
CBSE planning to introduce AI, coding, Data Science from Class 6-8
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is planning to introduce tech subjects such as AI, coding, and data science to the curriculum for students in classes VI to VIII. This is a departure from the current practice of offering skill subjects only after class XI. The CBSE has released a circular listing…
Bihar School Examination Board to promote students of Class 1 to 9 & Class 11
In view of the current Covid 19 situation Bihar School Examination Board(BSEB) has decided to promote students of Class 1 to 9 & Class 11 without conducting final examination and can begin the new academic year. BSEB had earlier announced the Class 12 examination result on 24 March 2020 in which the overall pass percentage…
Assam Higher Secondary Education Council will allow all Class XI students to be promoted
Due to the prevailing Covid 19 situation, Assam Higher Secondary Education Council will allow all Class XI students to be promoted without a final exam. With this decision, about 2.13 lakh students will be promoted. The exams were earlier scheduled to be held from 25 March to 08 April.
Study by Harvard Business School graduate: 90% Indian students are not work ready
The independent research on employability crisis in India that covered some of the top colleges in the country, has found that 90% college students in India are not prepared to take up jobs and 80% college students want to intern, but have no way to explore the opportunities. Talerang, coined from ‘talent’ and ‘boomerang’, began…
Best Schools State wise Ranking: Niti Ayog School education Quality Index 2019
Rajasthan, Kerala and Karnataka emerged as overall category top performers in the first ever ranking of school education quality carried out by Niti Ayog on School education Quality Index 2019. Delhi has been ranked among best in governance. On the other hand Punjab, J & K and UP have figured at the bottom of rankings….