Education

Over 2,050 candidates, including five in their 80s, on Sunday appeared for the Aksharashree literacy exam conducted here, the state literacy mission authority said. Sumathi Ammal and Dharani, both aged 85, were the senior-most candidates in the exam, conducted as part of the ‘Aksharashree’ project which is envisaged to find […]

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced his government decision to meet the entire expenditure on education of Valmiki community children after class 12 while accusing previous governments of keeping Valmiki community bereft of developmental opportunities. He also alleged that various political parties wanted the Valmiki community children to […]

Union Public service commission has invited online applications to fill 88 vacancies for various posts. Candidates interested and eligible for the post can apply online at upsc.gov.in on or before October 31, 2019. Vacancies: •Botanist: 13 Posts •Legal Officer: 6 Posts •Joint Assistant Director: 13 Posts •Specialist Grade III (Anaesthesia): 20 Posts […]

Psychology students at the Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) are being trained to identify suicidal tendencies and provide psychological first-aid to prevent a “suicide attempt”, varsity officials said. It is also a major misconception that suicide prevention is the sole responsibility of mental health professionals like clinical psychologists and psychiatrists, they […]

Ethics and etiquettes of social media, how to use Google search better, yoga and pranayama and resume writing are part of the “life skills” curriculum developed by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The commission had recently launched “Jeevan Kaushal”, a life skills programme in the curriculum for under-graduate courses across […]

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) wants school principals and teachers to encourage students to innovate and get their innovation patented. During his visit to Lucknow on Saturday, CBSE secretary Anurag Tripathi spoke to Rajeev Mullick on this and a number of other reforms that the board has introduced for imparting […]

The Delhi government is introducing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education for girl students in its schools to ensure majority of them opt for the stream and stereotypes like boys for science and girls for humanities are broken. “In India, only 2 per cent of the CEOs are female. […]

HSSC Clerk Answer Key 2019: Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC) has released the answer key for clerk recruitment on its official website  at hssc.gov.in. The written exam for HSSC Clerk recruitment 05/2019 was conducted on September 21 to 23, 2019 in two shifts- morning and evening. Here are the direct links to […]

Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) has declared the result of its provincial civil service (PCS) exam 2017. The UPPSC interview was conducted from September 16 to October 1, 2019 for recruitment against 676 vacancies. A total of 2029 candidates had qualified for the interview out of which 676 candidates successfully cleared […]

UP Board is likely to announce the list of examination centers for its 2020 high school and intermediate examinations by second week of November, said a board official. Besides, the board is also planning to release list of schools blacklisted by it where copying was detected in 2019 examinations. “We […]

The online registration process for Steel Authority of India recruitment examination 2019 to fill 463 vacancies for the posts of the operator-cum-technician trainee, operator-cum-technician (boiler), attendant-cum-technician trainee at Bokaro steel plant will end on Friday, October 11, 2019. Interested and eligible candidates can apply online at sailcareers.com. Vacancies: •Operator-cum-technician trainee: 302 […]

‘DHRUV’, the Pradhan Manthri Innovative Learning Programme, will be launched from the ISRO headquarters here on Thursday by HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’. ISRO Chairman Dr K Sivan, Wing Cdr Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to enter space and Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, Prof K Vijay […]

Geared-Up Girls, a team of five girls between the age of 14 and 18 from different schools in Mumbai will represent India in a robotics competition, ‘First Global Challenge 2019’, to be held in Dubai from October 24 to October 27. The theme is ‘Ocean Opportunities’ and the challenge for […]

Last month, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) invited students to apply for doctoral programmes in 11 fields: business policy, economics, finance & accounting, food & agri-business, human resource management, information systems, innovation and management in education, marketing, organizational behaviour, production and quantitative methods, and public systems. The call […]

The Union government is likely to drop its plan to set up a National Education Commission (NEC), which was to be led by the Prime Minister, after objections by several states, including Gujarat. During a meeting with the human resource development ministry, education ministers from several states opposed the idea, […]