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Bengaluru, home to some of the best educational institutions in the country, is fast becoming a hub for dubious firms offering fake degree certificates.

Spurious degrees: A thriving underground market

PhD is the highest possible academic degree, there's no doubt that having a PhD creates better opportunities.

30 Dec 2018 6:34 AM IST

The school day is already long and it feels developmentally inappropriate to make children continue to work in the evening.Getting kids to do their homework can be a hassle in any household.

Spare them the load: they're just kids, not study mules

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, has said that children aged three to five should sleep 10 to 13 hours every day.

28 Nov 2018 3:13 AM IST

Numerous cancers are preventable, but strategies to prevent them are either not accessible or not being adopted, leaving people at risk.

Want to fight cancer? adopt a healthy lifestyle

Many people believe that getting cancer is purely down to genes, fate or bad luck.

18 Nov 2018 6:37 AM IST

The concept of a spiral curriculum in which topics are visited and revisited at time intervals, at different levels of intensity, and often with a different emphasisbasic science, pathology, clinical scienceis important in curriculum design.

MCI syllabus prescribes better clinical skills

Medical education is changing rapidly, and many challenges remain for the future.

10 Nov 2018 7:21 AM IST

Administrators- Take ten minutes out of your day and talk to a high school dropout. Ask them why they dropped out? The answers that you get will give you valuable insight into what is wrong with Education system. Our kids deserve better.

Administrators, talk to a dropout'

Right to Education Act brings social classes together and the lower strata to the main stream.

20 Oct 2018 3:04 AM IST

Here 11% of the children finishing school joins a college whereas in the US, this figure amounts to a whopping 83%. Indian education system is one of the largest in the world with 1.4 million schools, 36000 higher educational institutes and 227 million students. There are 789 universities, 37,204 colleges and 11,443 stand-alone institutions in India- UGC.

Indian education: Marks define the outcomes, not skills

The shortage exists because there are simply not enough qualified teachers to fill the number of vacant positions.

30 Jun 2018 6:32 AM IST

Some students who were supposed to appear for the university exams in February were detained for six months for lack of attendance. (Representational Image)

Vice-chancellors should be invited not appointed

Universities are hallowed grounds - they are centers of academics, free thought, and progressive ideas.

16 Jun 2018 2:05 AM IST