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WhatsApp Group Comes Together to Set up a Smart Classroom in a Government...
Good Samaritans in the virtual space have done it yet again! It wasn’t until long ago that walls in the classrooms of the government-run Vanjamadai Panchayat Union Middle School in Udumalpet near...
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How Volunteer Teachers are Bringing Electricity to a Small Mountain School in...
Keerthi Sagar and Nagakarthik MP are engineers by qualification. They had lucrative jobs in the tech industry before realising that perhaps it was not for them. So, Nagakarthik quit his job and found...
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Chukka Ramaiah, The Man Who Made IIT Exam Accessible to Hundreds of Students
In Hyderabad, there is an educational institute that has become synonymous with the Indian engineer’s utopia, IIT. Called Ramaiah IIT Coaching Center, the institute has helped hundreds of students,...
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When ‘Snakes and Ladders’ Stops Being Just a Game, Young Lives Are Transformed
While we see statistics that show how India’s education sector has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years, access to quality education; especially in the primary stage in rural India, is...
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Has the UGC Suspended Your Distance Engineering Degree? Here’s How You Can...
Acting on the Supreme Court’s order banning correspondence/distance courses in technical education, the University Grants Commission, UGC issued a formal notification suspending the engineering degrees...
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This Ex-Armed Forces Veteran Needs Your Help to Educate Underprivileged...
Imagine a scene, where a teacher walks into a classroom with broken window panes, poor lighting, inadequate standards of cleanliness and no plug point to even use basic teaching equipment like a...
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Learn Chinese and Delve into Their Culture, Thanks to India’s First Confucius...
Mandarin Chinese is the highest-spoken language in the world, and understanding Chinese culture requires a substantial amount of learning. People usually think Chinese is difficult to learn and speak,...
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One Van That Has Enabled Hundreds of Youngsters to Get IT Training in Rural...
500 placements in rural parts of Bihar, supporting self-employment of female students and training 75 recruits in Jammu and Kashmir is no easy task when the institute is on wheels. However, Ashutosh...
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Digitalisation of Education Is the Solution to Our Archaic Learning Models
India is technology-savvy to some extent. The onslaught of technology has hit every sphere in our life—we book food, cabs and plumbers through applications. There are applications for finding a date,...
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Now, a Transgender Gets a Chance to Study Medicine – Thanks to This Judge
A Madras High Court judge has set a precedent in battling for the social upliftment of the transgender community. Tharika Banu wanted to enrol in the Bachelor of Siddha Medicine and Surgery course but...
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Tushar is a Teen in Class 10, But He Has Already Helped Transform a Govt School!
Tushar Mehrotra is a student of Class 10 at Pathways World School in Gurugram. As part of the curriculum, all students in his class are asked to take up an individual project, which they have to...
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Pune Varsity’s Radio Program Sets the Perfect Example for Colleges Across India
In the past few years, students across varsity campuses have come out in protest against unresponsive administrations. From episodes in Benaras Hindu University to Jawaharlal Nehru University,...
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Love Nature? Want to Conserve Earth? These Courses Will Give You a Unique...
Are you worried about the continuous felling of trees, and do you obsess over the effects of physical, chemical and biological conditions of the environment on organisms? You might be interested in...
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High Court Backs Anguished Dad, Ensures Dyslexic Son Gets the Education He Needs
Sankalpa Das, a student of Class 11, in K.V Ballygunge, Kolkata, was barred from appearing for the CBSE exam and his parents were informed that Sankalpa’s name had been struck off the rolls on the...
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Families of Martyrs Too Have Dreams. Why is Our Nation Looking to Curb Them?
The 1971 war with Pakistan, with pre-emptive aerial strikes, naval hostilities and ground operations, was a hair-raising conflict and both sides suffered heavy losses. Two days after the armed forces...
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The Small Changes in School That Make Gender Equality a Reality in India
Sumitra is the mother of Reena, a student of Class 8 in Dudri, Murhu block, Khunti district of Jharkhand. She says, “The moment Reena was born, my concern was for her safety. How would I ensure she was...
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Design Student Devises a New Way to Learn Kannada. And It’s Visually...
Moving to a new city, one often finds themselves a little lost in the beginning. The environment, atmosphere, culture and language change. That was also the case for Sakshi Gaggar, a fourth-year...
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In the Wake of Horrific Crimes Against Kids, This New Safety Manual Might Be...
A 7-year old boy found with his throat slit, a 5-year old raped in the washroom, a 3-year old assaulted by a bus-cleaner, and a 4-year old allegedly sexually assaulted by two teachers. The chilling...
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From Marriages to Markets, Empowered Women Are Changing India
TThe UN Gender Gap Index puts India at 132 out of 148 countries. The child sex ratio (CSR) – the number of girls to boys at birth – has been inching up but was still at a low of 909 in 2013. On the...
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This Sikh Community in America Raised Over Rs 12 Crore to Educate Kids in Punjab
The Sikh Human Development Foundation (SHDF) in Washington, USA has been working towards the education of underprivileged children in India, and has provided scholarships worth ₹12 crore since 2001!...
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