Devi Kar, director of Modern High School for Girls, said writing strengthens motor movement and “despite all gadgets, a hand-written note is and will be more significant”. Jessica Gomes S...

Calls to Jain on Thursday went unanswered. This newspaper sent him a message asking why private schools were being asked to go online despite favourable weather conditions now. He did not respond. Se...

A government school in the Sunderbans is reaching out to students, a large number of whom are still not going to school regularly and need help to catch up with lessons, said the head of the instituti...

Parents alleged that there was no prior notice sent to them and they came to know about the school shutting only when they reached campus on Thursday morning. The gates were closed and the closure no...

The high court on Wednesday ruled that private unaided schools whose names had come up with regard to allegations of arbitrary fee hike during the pandemic could not deny promotion to any student or w...

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Montessori teachers and psychiatrists are noticing a delay in speech development among children aged around 3, a trend they are attributing to long confinement at home and lack of interaction with oth...

The play also weaved in the human tragedy brought on by the pandemic by portraying the loss of livelihood of people selling ice creams and pickles outside schools. The play mirrored the aspirations of...

Preschools are limping back to life but they are not yet ready to open centres they had shut down in the last two years, at least two proprietors said. One preschool that had four centres had to shut...

Students with special needs, many of whom go to dedicated schools or centres, are showing behavioural issues in classrooms, some of those who work with them said. In-person classes of the children ha...