Shift focus from enrolment to what goes on in class: PM
September 4th, 2012 - 5:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 4 (IANS) Voicing concern at the "poor levels of student learning", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said focus needed to be shifted from enrolment and ... Read more...
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Useless degrees making British youth unemployable
August 17th, 2011 - 11:03 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 17 (IANS) Millions of school passouts and graduates in Britain have "fairly useless" degrees that make them unemployable as they lack elementary skills, a business lobby group ... Read more...
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Chinese think cost of raising children very high
September 19th, 2010 - 10:04 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Sep 19 (IANS) About 87 percent of Chinese believe the cost of raising children is very high, a study has shown.
Some 3,283 people took part in the study carried out by ... Read more...
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Eye on reforms, budget allocates Rs. 42,036 crore for education (Second lead)
February 26th, 2010 - 8:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) India Friday allocated Rs.42,036 crore (Rs.420 billion/$ 9.1 billion) for both the school and higher education sectors in 2010-11, an increase of over Rs.5,600 crore from ... Read more...
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Government to spend 16 percent more on school education (Lead)
February 26th, 2010 - 3:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The union budget for the next fiscal has pegged an outlay of Rs.31,036 crore (Rs.310.36 billion/$6.7 billion) for school education, an increase of Rs.4,236 crore from ... Read more...
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