Education

The Indira Gandhi National Open University Sunday invited applications for admission to its online programme in biodiversity.

As India’s education czars battled with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) teachers this May over creating a single national admission test for all engineering schools, neighbouring China was grappling with a similar debate: only turned inside out. Charu Sudan Kasturi reports.

The country's apex human rights panel Wednesday issued notice to Tamil Nadu, seeking reports in four weeks over the Scheduled Castes children being denied admission in a government school in Madurai district.

Indian IT major Wipro Limited will train 120 school teachers in partnership with the University of Massachusetts in Boston, US, over the next three years to foster excellence in science education among students.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Delhi University and the University Grants Commission (UGC) on a plea for introducing biometric attendance system for teachers to ensure punctuality.

It's an Indian school that's been in Iran since the 1930s. It shifted to its present location in Tehran in 1952, became a Kendriya Vidyalaya in 2004 and teaches five languages. On Wednesday, it received a Rs.2 crore boost, the third such grant in the past four years.

Somaiya was teeming with enthusiastic freshers within minutes of its start. Even the soaring heat couldn’t play spoilsport as the young students took to the dance floor. Punjabi songs ruled the roost, the favourites being ‘Amplifier’ and ‘Ishq tera tadpave’.

And the crazy answers to the straight questions are hilarious. Here is listing what the youth of today thought ATM stood for. Do you know the answer?

Annual fest Kiran begins this week, two-day cultural extravaganza to be themed around revolutionaries and their rise to fame. The two-day cultural gala will host events adhering to the theme of this year — ‘the rise’.

The season for freshers’ is here and so is HT City’s Fresh on Campus, which kickstarted with the bash at Delhi University’s Kamala Nehru College, recently.This year, their freshers’ theme was Arabian Nights.