South Point High School students have to pledge to uphold the school’s and their teachers’ faith in them and take a set of tests without the direct supervision of teachers. The school has...

The Bengal Higher Secondary council has sent a circular to heads of all schools asking them to make their students practise how to write answers within a prescribed word limit in the Plus-II board exa...

The dismal condition of India’s education system is no secret. There has been little improvement in spite of reforms being a significant part of the public discourse on education. The problem may li...

The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is devising a system using artificial intelligence and technology based on machine learning that will automate evaluation of students’ answer scripts.Students ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education will create banks of questions for Classes IX to XII and make them public so that the pupils can test themselves against these and assess their progress with t...

A college in north Karnataka made students write their mid-term exams with their heads wrapped in cardboard cartons with just an opening in the front, the unusual “experiment” ostensibly aimed at ...

The Supreme Court has accepted a petition challenging a central government order that imposes the nationwide entrance test — mandatory for admission to all medical colleges in India — on students ...

Must indiscriminate improvement necessarily be a good thing? The answer to this cannot always be in the affirmative, as the concerns that have surfaced after the declaration of the results of the Cent...