The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere, by Kevin Carey (Riverhead Books, 288 pp., $27.95) Not everyone thinks that the decline of American higher education began in the 1960s. Kevin Carey, director of the New America Foundation’s Education Policy Program, believes that our colleges have failed to educate students properly for more than …

  It is hard to answer the question: “What advice would you give a new teacher?” The problem is that all teachers, even those of us who are most passionate about teaching, have a love-hate relationship with our jobs. We love the children and the look of pride on a child’s face when they master a topic. We treasure those …

MANGALURU: As many as 15 children, along with their parents and child rights activists, held a protest inside the deputy commissioner’s office, seeking their right to education, on Thursday. Many of them have been denied seats in private schools under the RTE quota. Parents urged deputy commissioner A B Ibrahim to make arrangements to provide seats to their wards in …

LUCKNOW: Getting admission into one’s preferred choice of college seems to have become too stressful and burdensome these days, as nearly 86% of class 12th students are fighting off nervousness and anxiety disorder, compared to class 10th students with lesser levels of anxiety of 62.5%, an ASSOCHAM paper revealed. According to the survey, science students have highest levels of depression, …

      NEW DELHI: Over 30 courses may be launched in colleges across Delhi University, increasing the total number of undergraduate seats in DU by several thousand. The academic council’s standing committee on academic affairs met on Monday, May 25, and cleared the proposals for launching new courses made by the colleges. Some of these proposals had been pending …

        NEW DELHI: For the third consecutive day annual exam papers of BCom final year of School of Open Learning got leaked on WhatsApp. On Wednesday, the Economics paper got leaked at around 2.02pm and on Thursday the Business English paper was leaked. TOI got access to both the papers at 2.02pm and at 2.45pm respectively. Both …

      CHENNAI: IIT Madras on Friday defended its decision to derecognize the Ambedkar Periyar Student Circle (APSC) by stating that the student group had violated guidelines issued by the institute. In a statement, IIT-M said, “Student groups desiring to use the institute’s resources are required to be recognized and they are to follow guidelines prescribed by the Board …

            NEW DELHI: Delhi University on Thursday approved the implementation of the choice based credit system (CBCS) from the upcoming session, ending confusion among candidates seeking admission to the undergraduate programmes. The proposal was vetted by the university’s executive council (EC) despite dissent from five members, who alleged that the programme is being pushed in …

      NEW DELHI: In a bid to enhance academic experience and cultural understanding, a private law school here has joined hands with the School of Law, Tsinghua University in China. Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) of O P Jindal Global University (JGU) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Chinese university to collaborate on research, faculty …

      The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) will declare the Class 12 board results at 10 am, tomorrow. The board will declare the results for all three streams, Science, Commerce and Arts, simultaneously. The candidates who appeared for the examination will be able to check their results atwww.ahsec.nic.in. The students will be able to check their results …