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Washington, September 17 (ANI): It may not be wrong to say that the pen is mightier than the keyboard, for a new study on schoolchildren so suggests.

Virginia Berninger, a University of Washington professor of Educational Psychology, looked at [...]

London, Sept 6 (ANI): In an attempt to beat exam stress, some schools in the UK are offering pupils chocolate and access to relaxation rooms, academics told an education conference.

Researchers at Edge Hill and Manchester universities have urged that parents and teachers are putting the wrong kind of pressure on teenagers to succeed.

The study has [...]

Panaji (Goa), Aug.22 (ANI): The coastal state of Goa on Saturday is said to have registered its first swine flu death when a 67-year-old man died at a private hospital here.

State health authorities said Shiva Murthy, arrived in Goa from Bangalore on Friday. He was admitted with high [...]

Pune / Chennai, Aug 22 (ANI): Two more swine flu deaths were reported on Saturday in the country, taking the death toll to 47.

One death each was reported from Pune and Chennai.

With a 60 year old Baban Hangule succumbing to the virus on Saturday, Pune [...]

Pune / Chennai, Aug 22 (ANI): Two more swine flu deaths were reported on Saturday in the country, taking the death toll to 47.

One death each was reported from Pune and Chennai.

With a 60 year old Baban Hangule succumbing to the virus on Saturday, Pune [...]

Washington, Aug 21 (ANI): The affectionate bond between kids and their grandmothers is well known. And now, a new study has revealed that frequent visits to nana’s place could keep toddlers away from developing negative old age stereotypes.

A variety of negative stereotypes are attributed to the elderly such as they are considered forgetful, hard-of-hearing, absent-minded [...]

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Ahmedabad, July 10 (ANI): Schools and colleges remained closed in Ahmedabad in Gujarat on Friday as a mark of protest over the death of around 105 people due to consumption of spurious liquor.

Cases of people dying after consuming spurious liquor were reported on [...]

New Delhi, July 9 (ANI): The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has signed a Grant of Permission Agreement for establishing, maintaining and operating a Community Radio Station (CRS) at Manav Rachna Education Society in Faridabad.

The Community Radio Station is expected to be operational within three months as per the agreement. With this, the number of [...]

New Delhi, July 9 (ANI): A team of archaeologists have sketched out the layout of the first capital of Kublai Khan’s empire, known as Xanadu in Marco Polo’s Travel Notes, through a large-scale excavation in China.

“The most exciting findings are the layout of moat in front of the Mingde Gate to the royal capital [...]

Washington, July 1 (ANI): Students who share a healthy relationship with their teachers and schools tend to have higher success rates, suggests a new study.

According to a research review co-authored by Christi Bergin and David Bergin, the University of Missouri, students with [...]

London, April 26 (ANI): Having a bad teacher in the reception year can harm a child’s entire education, according to a new study.

Researchers at Durham University found that the effect of having an exceptionally poor – or an unusually good – teacher in the first year at primary school was still detectable six years later.

The [...]

New Delhi, Apr 25 (ANI/Business Wire India): The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is proud to celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2009, marking its unprecedented international growth and success in setting the standard of English language proficiency [...]

Dhaka, April 14 (IANS) Bangladesh’s education ministry has directed district authorities to gather information about madrassas after a number of militants were arrested this month and charged with using the seminaries to store huge quantities of arms and explosives.
Authorities held seven members of Pakistan-based Islamic organisation Dawat-e-Islami from Patharghata area in Chittagong Monday on suspicion [...]

MILAN, April 11 (Reuters) – Unicredit (CRDI.MI), Italy’s second-biggest bank by market value, said it faced a claim for more than $360 million in the U.S. state of New Mexico over sale of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) by its units there.
Frank Foy and his wife have filed on behalf of the state a claim [...]

London, Apr 12 (ANI): A research has confirmed what many parents and teachers already feared: social networking site Facebook is damaging students’ academic performance.

As per a new research into the academic impact of Facebook, users of the site are likely to perform poorly in exams.

The researchers discovered that the majority of students who use Facebook [...]

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CHENNAI: In an attempt to stamp out ragging in educational institutions, University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to recommend that ragging be
treated as a cognizable offence on par with rape.
Significantly, even “freshers who do not report the incidents of ragging either as victims or as witnesses shall also be punished suitably,” says the UGC’s policy [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Mar 23 (ANI): Malaysia’s Human Resources Minister Dr S. Subramaniam said that about 7.4 percent of the Indian population were eligible for JPA scholarships this year.

He said the government scholarships would be given to students with outstanding SPM results and after taking into [...]