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  Naidu lauds engineering colleges offering courses in regional languages

  Education | July 21, 2021 23:16 IST

  Lauding the move of 14 engineering colleges across eight states to offer courses in regional languages, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday urged more educational institutions, particularly those imparting technical and professional studies, to follow suit.

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  50% class 5 students can only read class 2 text book: Report

  India | January 14, 2015 16:15 IST

  New Delhi: The 10th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2014) released on Tuesday shows that reading and mathematical abilities are not up to the mark amongst children aged 6-14 in India. However, the positive

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  Ramdev bats for re-introducing Gurukul system of education

  India | December 18, 2014 6:54 IST

  Mathura: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev lauded the constructive role played by the Gurukul system of education and expressed his commitment to revive the old system in the country.He said the British rulers abolished the Gurukul

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  President says, novel steps are needed to address lack of quality teachers

  India | July 18, 2014 23:23 IST

  Kasaragod (Ker): President Pranab Mukherjee today said that vacancies at universities was a concern and stressed on the need to adopt innovative measures to deal with the lack of quality teachers in the country.  “The

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  School education: Lakshadweep tops the chart, Jharkhand is at the bottom

  India | December 06, 2013 9:28 IST

  New Delhi: Lakshadweep continues to be the best state in the field of providing school education for a second year in a row according to the composite Educational Development Index 2012-13.The rankings take into account