New research has found no evidence Omega-3 fish oil supplements help aid or improve the reading ability or memory function of underperforming school-children. These findings are in contradiction to an earlier study run by the same team using the same supplement. In the second high-quality trial of its kind, published in PLOS-ONE, the researchers found an entirely different result …
Leading education finance company, Avanse Financial Services has launched an exclusive education loan offer for girl students aspiring to pursue higher education and build a strong future. The benefits include 12 year term as against the available 10 year term, 25% discount on processing fee and a 1% reduction on Rate of Interest. The offer starts from March 8, 2018 and concludes …
‘Value Education’ is a recipe for positivity. And in the present times, when the society is challenged by multitude of social problems, an onslaught of technology ‘bad effects’ and environmental degradation, values of harmony, peace, compassion and humility, which have for centuries been a part of the discourse of every society of the world, need to be reinforced. In this …
After a tussle of about a year, the ‘good’ old tuck shops return to schools affiliated to the central board of secondary education (CBSE, 18500 schools) following a Delhi High Court order of February 21 that effectively quashed the CBSE circular of April 19, 2017, which had barred these shops inside school campuses. The said circular had advised schools to …
With government’s aggressive push on digitalization in education, there is risk of a different kind whereby policy makers and administrators may set onto a different path. Schools, teachers and classrooms, facing a neglect already, will be further pushed to margins and a time will come when some people will demand scrapping these altogether. Socialization must have been the most progressive …
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) recently announced that children with Type1 diabetes will now be placed under the category of persons with disabilities (PwD). As per the standard dictionary definition, disability (noun) is a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities. Diabetes is not one of the 21 disabilities listed under Rights of Persons …
