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At least 3,000 schools have been turned into evaluation centres for CBSE Board Exams 2020 and the process will begin on Sunday, i.e. on May 10. 

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The number of complaints of ragging received in 2015 were 423, most of them being from West Bengal. The number rose to 5,215 in 2016 and 901 in 2017, according to the data.

Paper-II and Paper-III have been merged together to be termed as Paper-II containing 100 compulsory objective type questions of two marks with two hours duration.

More than 1200 graduates from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) will be teaching at engineering colleges in poor districts.

The victim's family has demanded a postmortem. 

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said the first draft of the new National Education Policy will come out by December end.

Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday denied there were plans to drop 'Muslim' and 'Hindu' from the names of Aligarh Muslim University and Banaras Hindu University.

The Tamil Nadu government on Sunday submitted in the Madras High Court that a detailed report would be submitted to it after investigations into some job rackets that sent call letters for interview to several people, including a judge.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday said children will play a crucial role in the mission to achieve 100 per cent literacy in the country by 2022.

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In a reply to All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi`s statement on directing the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and central universities to host rock bands that would sing patriotic songs on the campuses, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday said that people with extreme view point and insecurities tend to oppose anything that comes up in terms of national interest.

The plan to introduce Higher Education Empowerment Regulation Agency or HEERA with an aim to eliminate overlaps in jurisdiction and remove irrelevant regulatory provisions is in limbo.

The government is not considering any merger of the UGC and the AICTE into a single higher education regulator at present, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.

Under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009, no child admitted in a school will be held back in any class or expelled till the completion of elementary education covering classes 1 to 8.  

The Human Resource and Development (HRD) ministry is expected to decide upon conducting a single entrance test for engineering courses across the nation.

The Department of School Education and Literacy, HRD ministry, is set to roll out a central evaluation system for teachers, though it will not be binding on the state governments, department Secretary Anil Swarup said today.

Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science is the India’s best university, according to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF).

The Ministry of Human Resource Development on Monday released the annual national rankings of all institutions of higher education in India. As per the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings, Miranda House in Delhi has been adjudged the best college in the country.

"We will have a committee headed by an eminent educationist in around ten days....” HRD minister Prakash Javadekar told PTI in an interview.