Tag: Students

Kolkata :  Students of Jadavpur Presidency University and some other educational institutes on Monday alleged they were attacked by Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) supporters outside a city-based college when they were campaigning for an upcoming joint convention on the educational policies passed by the Centre and purported corruption in college admissions in West Bengal. A […]

New York: Researchers have found that school-based services delivered by teachers and other school-based professionals can help reduce mental health problems in elementary-aged children. “Given the limited accessibility of traditional mental health services for children school-based mental health services are a tremendous vehicle for overcoming barriers to mental health care and meaningfully expanding the reach […]

New Delhi: It’s that time of the year when both students and parents feel “exam pressure”. Students are under pressure to perform their best, but doing so requires a balanced approach to health, in addition to consistent studying. This balanced approach helps students boost their memory and remember what they have studied. Dr. Hariprasad, Ayurveda […]

London: Students who are unable to concentrate and retain their lessons at school,take Just 15 minutes of break with a run or walk activity at own pace. This may help improve your memory and attention span, finds a study. The findings showed that the children who participated in the run or walk activity reported feeling […]

Kannur/Thiruvananthapuram: Four women teachers who are believed to have asked a girl to remove her top innerwear before entering the classroom to write the NEET entrance exam at a school near Kannur have been suspended for a month by the school authorities. The state police is to probe the incident, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. […]

Ahmedabad: The BJP government in Gujarat has asked schools to ensure that students respond with ‘Jai Hind’ or ‘Jai Bharat’ during roll call instead of customary ‘Yes Sir’, which it feels will instill “a feeling of patriotism”. The move has drawn flak from opposition parties which said the government should rather work towards improving the […]

  Santiniketan: Following unruly scenes over lack of drinking water here at the Visva-Bharati premises here, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday sought apologies from its students during the 49th convocation which he attended as its Chancellor. “As the Chancellor of Visva Bharati University, I seek your apology. While I was coming here, some students […]

  New Delhi: A group of students at IIT Roorkee have developed a mobile application — Dhadkan — for monitoring the health of people suffering from heart ailments and provide them with medical assistance in case of emergency. The application developed by Computational Biology group at IIT-Roorkee can automatically send notification to both the doctor […]

Alappuzha: A group of vegetarian students of College of Engineering campus of CUSAT here complained the district authorities that they were made to eat beef cutlets served as a vegetable dish. As per information, the incident took place at a feast organized during a college seminar at Pulincunnoo on January 25, some of the affected […]

Baripada: While government schools across the state are grappling with teacher post vacancies, youth volunteers who have taken up teaching at schools free of cost has come as a boon for students in Mayurbhanj district. After completing their Bachelor of Education (B. Ed) many youths are filling the vacant posts at government schools in the […]

Bengaluru: State-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday announced the launch of its Young Scientist programme to train class 9 students in space technology and its applications. “ISRO has launched the special programme for school children ‘Yuva Vigyani Karyakram’ (Young Scientist programme) to impart basic knowledge on space technology, space science and applications to […]

New York: Insufficient sleep is associated with a wide range of mental health issues such as anxiety, self-harm and suicide ideation among students and athletes, according to a study. Published in the journal Sleep, the study analysis involved 110,496 students, out of which 8,462 were athletes. “It was really surprising to see how strongly insufficient […]

Bhubaneswar: In what could come as good news for Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) aspirants from Odisha; the Department of Higher Education is going to offer free and subsidised coaching services in Bhubaneswar from this month. The decision was taken to improve the success rate of aspirants from the State which has reportedly declined over […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today extended the summer vacation of all schools including privately run ones till June 25. As per the previous schedule, the schools were supposed to re-open tomorrow, but due to prevailing heat wave conditions, the vacation was extended. The extension of the vacation was officially announced by School and Mass Education […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to stop parents and students from getting misled, the Odisha government has ordered action against coaching centres for using photos of fake students in newspaper advertisements to attract parents for admissions in their institutes. In a letter written to the Director General of Police, School & Mass Education department secretary and […]