No-satchel days for juniors, allowing seniors to share textbooks in class and pruning the timetable are some of the measures two schools in the steel city have been taking for a couple of years now to...

Indrajit Ray, professor of economics at Cardiff Business School in the UK, has been appointed Presidency University’s new Infosys distinguished chair professor in economics, ending a 10-month wait f...

St James’ student, St James’ teacher, St James’ principal. Aniket Deb Roy, who will take over as the principal of his alma mater St James’ School in June, is a “teacher first”.“I still t...

For the first time, students of Classes IX and XI of schools affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) answered their annual exams similar to board exams.From th...

Gone are the days when every winter brought in choicest theatre productions from across the globe to the Calcutta auditoriums and Nandikar invited the best of contemporary Indian theatre. With the tou...

The state government on Friday set up a five-member fact-finding committee to look into the grievances of the 300-odd aspiring teachers, who have been holding an indefinite sit-in off the Maidan for 2...

The Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations has clarified that the annual exams of classes IX and XI in schools affiliated to it “are not board examinations”.The council’s decision to...

A schoolboy gamer who found it tough to download games with limited data, Subhigya Priyansh did not sit and crib. He worked out a solution. Now, this 14-year-old student from DBMS English School will ...

What is the best way to overcome the fear of maths? Flex your grey cells and become a number ninja! DBMS English School on Thursday hosted the second inter-school maths quiz, Number Ninjas, on Thursda...

Yet we have the US-China Trade War and different countries joining one camp or the other. I was drawing a distinction between what happens on the ground and what certain politicians like (Donald) Trum...