The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the dates for compartment examination for Class 12, which will be held on July 16. The students who have to appear for the examination will have to fill the forms on the official website cbse.nic.in. As many as 97,404 students of Class 12 would appear in the compartment exam for …

This year the Science and Arts streams have seen an increasing number of takers among the top high scorers, even though Commerce remained the most popular choice with high scorers. On Tuesday, June 16, the first merit list was put up for admission to degree colleges. The cut-off for Science has increased by almost 8 percent, 4 percent for Arts …

    The Bombay High Court, on Tuesday, June 16, has directed the Maharashtra state education department to ensure that there is total transparency in the admission process. Naresh Patil and S B Shukre, who are in a division bench of justices told the state to spell out its plan about seats in colleges that will remain after three rounds …

  The Supreme Court’s has scrapped the All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) after the use of deceitful means and measures during the examination. The Central Board of Secondary Education has hence been holding discussions to finalise the dates and venues to hold the test afresh. The CBSE was instructed by the apex court judges Justice RK Agrawal and Amitava Roy …

The cut-off for B.A. programme has been fixed at 96.50 per cent (Commerce) and 96.00 per cent (Science/Humanities). For Economics, the cut-off has reached 98.50 per cent. The candidates willing to take admissions to Mathematics course should have scored at least 96 per cent marks (Humanities). However, the candidates belonging to any other stream, wishing to take admission to Maths …

      There was an air of optimism among about 100 local and state education, business and community leaders at The Marshall University Foundation Hall Thursday. The goals of those in attendance simply were to listen and be heard during The Education Alliance’s EDTalks: Connecting Education, Jobs and Our Future event, where Interim Marshall President Gary White and West …

    Parents’ organizations plan to resume school disruptions throughout the country on Friday to protest overcrowded classrooms, following an unsuccessful meeting on Thursday with Education Ministry officials. The meeting between the forum of community parents’ committees and ministry director-general Michal Cohen was held at the request of Knesset Education Committee Chair MK Yakov Margi (Shas), in the wake of …

      The Vermont Legislature, following a fierce debate over education reform, is set to spend $300,000 for an “adequacy study” on the cost of public schools. The Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office is looking for an outside contractor it hopes will be able to tell policymakers how much it should cost to administer a decent education to students, Vermont …

      Realising the benefits of its NiE sponsorship to schoolchildren over the last three years, a property developer has decided to reinforce the exercise by increasing its contribution this year. The previous years saw sponsorships of RM50,000 each for the The Star’s Newspaper-in-Education (NiE) programme. This time, it has upped its contribution for the educational pullouts to RM60,000. …

      City education officials unveiled a new science curriculum Thursday to better prepare kids for the white-hot fields of science, technology, engineering and math — better known as STEM. The city’s updated science curriculum covers kindergarten through fifth grade, with lessons tied to new, national Common Core standards. “This new, cutting-edge curriculum will encourage students to explore, deeply …