Education

"Children shouldn't be a vehicle for our ambitions. They should be a vehicle for their own aspiration. Not everyone wants to become a doctor, engineer, or pilot." #Education #India

A recent meeting of the board’s governing body decided that the subject would be introduced in classes 8, 9 and 10 as a skill subject.

Anandkumar has organised the pages of the syllabus into ten books, each covering a month of study.

As part of this project, all the duplicate and redundant portions will be edited out, leaving the students with concise, crisp textbooks. The ministry promises that this reduction will be scientific.

From a Rs 10 device that allows women to avoid UTI by standing and peeing, to the machine that could filter 90,000 litres of water in six months without electricity, here are our top ten picks for 2018’s coolest Indian inventions!

"Dear Mr @anandmahindra, the Jeep you tweeted has a lovely story. It served us faithfully between 1997 to 2007 before taking new avatara", tweeted Sonam Wangchuk.

It is not about how heavy a school kid’s bags are! This much-loved teacher’s vision still shows India the way forward. #India #Education

What started out as an initiative to simplify teaching, soon led to the creation of a YouTube channel named Mangarani Lessons six years back.

Today, at 35, the young man with 95 per cent disability in his body has not only earned a PhD in Computer Science but is also working on a start-up, with two fellow PhD scholars--K R Anandam and Prabhat Ranjan.

The district head who was visiting the school to inspect the infrastructure and learning outcomes, decided to pick the chalk and duster and teach the students who seemed quite delighted to listen to her speak.