With the aim of creating strong strategies and roadmaps to make school examinations less stressful Northwest Accreditation Commission, USA (NWAC) hosted a conference ‘De-stressing Examination’ in partnership with the Council of Boards of School Education in India (COBSE), in New Delhi recently.  The conference was inaugurated by Professor Ved Prakash, Ex-Chairman, UGC. The event gave special focus on ‘De-Stressing Examination’ on the lines of …

FLAME University, Pune, has announced the start of Admissions for its 2020 intake for the undergraduate and postgraduate programs Programs Offered  FLAME University offers three-year B.A., B.A. (Honours)*, B.Sc., BBA and BBA (Communications Management) courses in its undergraduate program. This year onwards a B.Sc. (Honours)** undergraduate program will be added to its portfolio of undergraduate programs. The liberal education anchored …

  The first batch of 60 outstanding talented students under the newly launched Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme-DHRUV for the gifted students is undergoing a 14-day camp where two groups of Science and Performing Arts will be separated for further conditioning. Broadly the chosen students are from classes 9 to 12, from all schools including government and private. To begin …

Researchers at Shiv Nadar University in Greater Noida have announced the discovery of two strains of plastic-eating bacteria that have the potential to solve the problem of plastic waste globally. The bacterial species namely Exiguobacterium sibiricum strain DR11 and Exiguobacterium undae strain DR14 were isolated from the wetlands adjoining the University by Dr Richa Priyadarshini and her team at the Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences. …

The process of admissions for international students to more than 21 programs at IIIT-Delhi has been made online and easy by launching the website. The Institute offers undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD programs in Computer Science (CS), Electronics and Communications (ECE), Computational Biology (CB), Human Centered Design (HCD), Mathematics and Social Sciences (SSH). Inter-disciplinary undergraduate programs in CS+X format equip the …

This year, the theme is ‘ocean opportunities’ and focuses on ocean pollution A team of five teenage girl students from Mumbai—Aarushi Shah  (Bombay International School), Radhika Sekhsaria (Oberoi International School),  Radhika Sekhsaria (Oberoi International School), Aayushi Nainan & Lavanya Iyer (Dhirubhai Ambani International School) and  Jasmehar Kochhar (Podar International School)— will represent Inda at the First Global Challenge (3rd edition) …