Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has warned against any rush to scrap theclass X board exam in what official sources described as an effort to clam theanxiety in certain quarters that doing away with the exam would leave studentsill-equipped for future challenges."We are still debating thisissue. This is an experiment. We should not take a decision in haste," Singhsaid in an interaction with school children...
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray comes out of the Bandra court in Mumbai on Wednesday.Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray was on Wednesday charge-sheeted along with 20 other party members, in a case pertaining to an attack on north Indian applicants appearing for a Railway Recruitment Board exam. The MNS chief appeared before the Bandra court on Wednesday.This...
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Educationists and parents have slammed the idea of Board exams in Class V as 'ridiculous and absurd'."It's just not possible," said Shakuntala Chanda, principal of Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Andrews Ganj. "Even though our school is located in such a good location, we still face the problem of dropouts and low enrollment rates. If board exam is According to Delhi Mayor Kanwar Sain's proposal,...
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FEROZEPUR: In what is perhaps a uniquecase, a Punjab School Education Board student lost two crucial academic yearsfor no fault of his own. Varun Kumar, a local youth, took his grievance to thedistrict consumer forum, which has now ordered the board to pay a compensationof Rs 50,000 and Rs 5,000 as litigation expenses to the complainant for failingto declare his matriculation examination result.The...
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Prime Minister ManmohanSingh has warned against any rush to scrap the class X board exam in whatofficial sources described as an effort to calm the anxiety in certain quartersthat doing away with the exam would leave students ill-equipped for futurechallenges.“We are still debating this issue. This is anexperiment. We should not take a decision in haste,” Singh said in aninteraction with school children...
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Will the boon for class Xth students in the form of grading system spell concern for class XIIth or will it be a smooth progression? Will the absence of Xth board exam result in subjugating their preparedness for class XIIth or will it provide a holistic development? These are the pieces of the riddle which students, parents and the teaching community are trying to solve. Over eight lakh students appearing...
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The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Saturday said the decision to abolish or not to abolish the 10th board exam would not be taken in haste.Dr. Singh's statement came during his interaction with schoolchildren who asked whether children are not being made weak by the decision to scrap the tenth board examination."We are still debating on this issue. This is an experiment. We should not take...
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Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Saturday said the decision to abolish or not to abolish the 10th board exam would not be taken in haste.Dr. Singh's statement came during his interaction with schoolchildren who asked whether children are not being made weak by the decision to scrap the tenth board examination."We are still debating on this issue. This is an experiment. We should not take a decision...
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IIT coaching classes do more harm than good by cranking out masses of problem-solving automatons who can't think for themselves, then what's wrong with Kapil Sibal's proposal to marginalise them by giving weightage to Class XII marks?DNA spoke to a cross-section of IITians past and present, educationists and faculty to get a fix on an industry that's perhaps become too efficient for its own good.Last...
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high court on Thursday directed the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education to re-evaluate within two weeks an answer in the history paper of a Madhyamik examinee.The father of Pritam Das, a Sonarpur Sarada Vidyapith student who had cleared the board exam in first division this year, moved the court after being allowed to go through his son’s history and physical science answerscripts under the Right...
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