An irritated Gov. Mark Dayton lashed out at Republican lawmakers on Tuesday, saying he would veto a bill that funds education without providing money for his top priority of universal pre-kindergarten. For the past week, Dayton had intensely lobbied House Republicans and Senate Democrats to add spending for his pre-K plan for four-year-olds. In the final hours of the …

Not a single Indian institution of higher learning figures in the list of top 200 universities prepared by The Times Higher Education Supplement. These dismal rankings are quite often taken as a measure of the crisis of higher education in India, notwithstanding the obvious limitations of the ranking exercise. But all is not well with Indian universities. So far, the …

      It is well known that becoming an economically developed country requires a well-educated and skilled labor force. Nevertheless, because of its history of backwardness in education, Turkey cannot boast of this human capital. The average person has undergone less than seven years of formal schooling, while in South Korea this average is close to 12 years. The …

President Gutmann, trustees, faculty, alumni, friends and family, and class of 2015 – has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? It is an indescribable privilege to share this remarkable day with you. Graduates, you made it! You’ve got your families and loved ones – people who have been in your corner for as long as you have been breathing …

    The Board of High School and Intermediate Education Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad has declared results of Class 10 and Class 12 today, announcing the fate of millions of students who have toiled hard to get good marks in the examinations.   While, 83.74% students passed class 10 examinations, around 88.83 per cent students were successful in class 12.   …

  Despite being remembered as Israel’s greatest spy, Eli Cohen, who infiltrated the highest echelons of Syria, remains an unknown figure to today’s youth, his widow said. Born in 1924 in Egypt, Cohen immigrated to Israel at the age of 33 and settled in Bat Yam. Almost immediately he began collaborating with Israeli intelligence agencies and in 1960 was recruited to Military Intelligence’s …

      The state Board of Education gave schools chief Diane Douglas until the end of the day Tuesday to give its investigator unfettered access to teacher records or face the threat of litigation. Today’s 7-1 vote came after Christine Thompson, the board’s executive director, said her investigator lost the ability to view the records online following the move …

      The institution today reviewed its policy on fossil fuel investment after calls from the Oxford University Student Union to consider divestment. It is the first time that Oxford has stated its investment policy on oil and tar sand extraction companies, which are considered to be the most polluting. But the announcement stops short of full divestment in …

  The Great Recession has served as a flash point for public discussion about Americans’ finances, exposing their poor financial health and limited financial knowledge. In addition to systematic failures in financial regulation and misconceptions of risk, blame has sometimes been levied against individuals withlimited financial knowledge for contributing to the recession. This latter explanation implies that the recession’s effects …

    Students of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) have a reason to rejoice! Their classrooms will soon have white projector screens instead of regular blackboards. Thane mayor Sanjay Bhaurav More has devised a project to turn classrooms into a digital arena and use audio-visual tools to teach. This initiative has been taken to be at par with the swiftly …