‘Need to include sex education in schools’
She walks tall, sporting a saree, with her head held high and a smile on her face. Meet 35-year-old sexual educator Pallavi Barnwal. She teaches people […]
India beats China in schools, but lags in quality
1/5 The problem of qualitative improvement In the decade after passage of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, while the target of 100% enrollment in […]
Schools funding shortfall of £5.4bn ‘worse than estimated’
Headteachers protest against school funding cuts in September in London. Photograph: Matthew Chattle/Barcroft Images There has been a £5.4bn shortfall in school funding in England […]
Ban cars outside UK schools to tackle air pollution, teachers say
A PHE report said air pollution was the biggest environmental threat to health in the UK. Photograph: Focke Strangmann/EPA Nearly two-thirds of teachers would support […]
Our school system may be one of the worst, but that makes it easier to improve
A Stanford University researcher has concluded that a teacher adds value to an institution of learning; if teachers’ salaries reflected their value added they would […]
3 pvt schools cock a snook at fee Act
v Naina Mishra Tribune News Service Chandigarh, March 20 Despite the 8 per cent fee hike cap under the Punjab Regulation of Fee of Unaided […]
Parents complain to Manchester schools about LGBT lessons
Andrew Moffat, assistant head at Parkfield community primary school in Birmingham and author of the No Outsiders programme. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Primary schools in Manchester […]
To help fight vaping, schools look to their own students
San Jose, California (CNN)Teen vaping is on the rise, and schools are searching for solutions, with some taking disciplinary action or installing vape detectors in bathrooms. […]
Hungry, unwashed children fill our schools – how has it come to this?
otograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images According to a survey from the headteachers’ union, the Association of School and College Leaders, schools have become “an unofficial fourth […]
Technical institutes to be ranked based on startups created annually
Representational Image. AICTE issues new rules for assessment of standard to maintain education and research quality in technical institutes All India Council for Technical Education […]