[ad_1] The India campus of the University of Southampton, which was inaugurated in Gurgaon on Wednesday, is set to begin hosting its first cohort of 140 students for the 2025-26 academic session. In its maiden academic session from September, the UK university’s campus will offer 4 UG and 2 PG courses. The UG courses are […]
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[ad_1] Describing Babur as a “brutal and ruthless conqueror, slaughtering entire populations of cities”, Akbar’s reign as a “blend of brutality and tolerance”, and Aurangzeb who destroyed temples and gurdwaras, the NCERT’s new Class 8 Social Science textbook, which introduces students to the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals, points to “many instances of religious intolerance” […]
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[ad_1] Learning levels are yet to bounce back to pre-Covid levels in the primary stage, with students in Class 3 still not having caught up with the performance recorded in 2017, the Centre’s latest school education assessment released Monday shows. Class 3 students assessed in language and Mathematics fared better compared to 2021, when learning […]
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[ad_1] A recent CBSE circular directing schools to introduce mother tongue instruction in primary classes has left institutions in metro cities like Delhi and Mumbai — which serve mobile, multilingual populations — in a bind. But a proposal under consideration for Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs), run by the Centre, may offer a way forward, officials told […]
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[ad_1] For the first time in at least a decade, more girls cleared their Class 12 examination in science than in the arts stream, data from the Ministry of Education on board exam results for 2024 shows. Ministry of Education data on central and state board exam results across the country shows that from at […]
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[ad_1] A year after 17 candidates secured a perfect score of 720 in revised NEET-UG results last year, the top score this year dropped to 686, with no candidate securing a full 720. This year’s results featured a single topper, Mahesh Kumar from Rajasthan, who secured a percentile of 99.9999547. Utkarsh Awadhiya from Madhya Pradesh […]
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[ad_1] Pointing to the “disturbing trend” of students “moving away from government schools”, and the steady increase in private school enrolment in states, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Uttarakhand, the Ministry of Education has asked them to take steps to reverse the trend, official documents show. The enrolment of students came up in meetings that […]
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[ad_1] Signalling the Centre’s intent to make teaching in the mother tongue mandatory at the primary level in the future, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has asked all affiliated schools to map students’ mother tongues “at the earliest” and align instructional materials accordingly before the end of the summer break. Currently, English is […]
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[ad_1] A steep drop in government school enrolment at the primary and upper-primary levels across 23 States and UTs in 2024-25 has evoked concern within the Union government, prompting the Ministry of Education (MoE) to ask for probes and remedial action plans from the states concerned. Minutes of meetings held by the MoE with 33 […]
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[ad_1] The CA exams, which were postponed in view of security situation in the country, will now be conducted from May 16 to 24, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) announced on Saturday night. The exams were earlier scheduled from May 9 to 14, 2025. The ICAI had earlier this week announced postponement […]
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