London: The right of Christian worship in British schools and Parliament faced a fresh assault after a High Court banned prayers at council meetings. In a landmark ruling on Friday on a case brought by the National Secular Society and an atheist councillor, formal acts of prayer in the chambers of town and city halls were outlawed by High Court Judge. Justice Ouseley issued a declaration that there was no...
11:04 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Tezpur: Over 16 million children are not attending schools in the country and the government has taken all possible steps to make them literate within this decade, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said. "Globalisation has led to much improvement in the field of education and the country is ready to compete with the rest of the world, but we cannot ignore the many children who are...
08:56 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Bangalore: As school admission fees are becoming a burden on the parents, the Karnataka government has fixed a 30 per cent profit margin for private schools. This after parents protested against the alarming rise in the admission costs. The ever rising cost of a school education is a biting reality for parents and Ashok Kumar Adiga President of the Parents' Association last year decided to fight against it. "What is...
06:23 AM, Feb 06, 2012
Islamabad: Chinese will soon be taught in schools across Pakistan, said a minister. Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan said arrangements were being made for introducing Chinese language at school level across the country and this programme would soon be initiated. She added that steps were being taken to promote Chinese language among the people, reported Associated Press of Pakistan. "China is our trustworthy friend and always...
02:20 PM, Feb 05, 2012
The Delhi Education Minister has taken note of the CNN-IBN expose showing schools flouting norms in nursery admissions. ...
02:26 PM, Feb 01, 2012
An investigation by Network 18 has revealed that Delhi schools are charging illegal fee for nursery admissions. ...
10:43 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: Despite the government laying down strict guidelines about nursery admissions on the basis of a point system, several schools in the Capital are openly flouting the norm. Rather than the child's ability, it is the amount parents are willing to shell out, that guarantees a seat at the nursery level. A special investigation by the IBN network has revealed just how difficult it is to secure admission if...
08:33 PM, Jan 31, 2012
HYDERABAD: The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, a brainchild of industry stalwarts, has once again been placed in the top twenty B-Schools in the world for its Postgraduate Programme, as per the latest rankings released by The Financial Times. Stanford Graduate School of Business topped the rankings, while the only other Indian management school, IIM-A, is ranked 11th. The rankings are based on a B-Schools performance three years prior to...
08:53 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Government school principal Vijay Pal Singh turned Citizen Journalist to expose corruption within the school system. ...
10:22 AM, Jan 30, 2012
On this episode we take a look at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management. ...
10:24 PM, Jan 29, 2012
BANGALORE: Representatives from various private schools across the city failed to arrive at a consensus over the issue of the proposed change in school timings, from 8.30 am to 3.30 pm, at an interactive meeting held on Friday between stakeholders from the education and traffic departments. The meet was arranged in the wake of increasing traffic in the city. While officials from the education and traffic department batted for implementation...
08:49 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Mumbai: Fifth standard students engaged in studies - no big deal. However, they are not studying on text books but on swanky apple iPads and this is not a concept classroom. At a universal school in Mumbai every student has an iPod and an iPad most of their teaching is done on iPad applications. They don't even have a computer class but all students have recently been given Macbook airs....
07:21 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Mumbai: Young children will soon be made champions of the fight against corruption if the Chief Vigilance Commission's new plan comes into effect. As corruption threatens to undermine the India story, the country's corruption watchdog, the CVC, is taking a long term view. Following the old adage of catching them young, the CVC now aims to make children anti-corruption champions. The CVC has written to all CBSE, ICSE schools asking...
10:43 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's much lauded free education scheme has allegedly turned into a multi-crore scam with over 3 lakh fake student enrolments come to light. The case came to light when most of the students were found to have been enrolled in several schools simultaneously. In fact a few were enrolled in government schools but were found to be studying at private schools. According to Bihar government's...
03:24 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai's municipal schools are in a dismal state. An RTI obtained by CNN-IBN reveals a high dropout rate, a dearth of teachers, and rampant mismanagement, which are just some of the problems plaguing the system. The elections to control the country's richest civic corporation Brihan Mumbai Corporation (BMC), are just a month away, but questions raised about municipal education in Mumbai have thrown up disturbing answers. The BMC's own...
08:50 AM, Jan 17, 2012
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