A 14-year-old boy ran away from his home in Gujarat’s Surat, leaving behind a note for his family that said he was not able to understand anything taught during the online classes of h...

The day after New Year’s, John Reichert of Boulder, Colorado, had a heated argument with his 14-year-old son, James. “I’ve failed you as a father,” he told the boy despairingly...

Schools have conducted online exams this academic year but several heads said they were not sure if it was a “right assessment” of how much the students had learned. One school has done away with...

The National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, has appealed to its alumni for aid as “it is very important to bridge the digital divide that is threatening the future of many students in ...

Most people are glad that they put the nightmare that was the year, 2020, behind them. This may have something to do with the sea changes the year brought — an almighty shove in the direction of...

Grandmaster Surya Sekhar Ganguly, along with fellow GMs RB Ramesh and Magesh Panchanathan (now settled in US), is starting an online chess training school, which gets up and running from January 1. &...

Mamata Banerjee has said the administration will transfer Rs 10,000 each to the accounts of 9.5 lakh Class XII students at government or government-aided schools to buy tablets or smart phones for onl...

Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced that her government would distribute tablets to nearly 9.5 lakh Class XII students studying at 14,000-odd government or government-aided schools and 636 madrasas ...

By now, teachers across India are inured to online teaching. The abruptness of the move in March was a shock to the system and institutions took what they thought were emergency, one-time measures, on...

In-person classes at colleges and universities will not resume for now as the Covid pandemic is still raging, an official in the higher education department said. Classes will continue to be held on ...