SAT is basically a reasoning test conducted by the US based universities for students seeking admission at the degree level. It was first named as Scholastic Aptitude Test, which then changed to Scholastic Assessment Test, and now it is just known as SAT. The test was formerly introduced by Educational Testing Service(ETS) and is now owned, published, and developed by the College Board of US. However,...

Whether studying or doing a job, one come across several documents that require effective reading for a better understanding and meeting certain objectives. As students required to read their subjects effectively to score well in exams, those who are in professional phase must have a clear understanding of documents that they come across everyday. Effective reading skills are needed by every individual....

Washington: A teacher from Maharashtra in India has been chosen for the US Space Foundation's elite 2012 Flight of Teacher Liaisons programme.

Vandana Suryawanshi of Vidya Valley School in Maharashtra is a middle school educator who has been teaching biology, earth science and general science for 20 years. He joins 19 other outstanding educators selected for their active promotion of space and science...

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) here, one of the world's largest, on Friday received an award for the best teaching practices at the India Today Aspire Education Summit 2012.

"It is a great pleasure to recive the award in this category. This showcases that IGNOU is doing great and heading on the right track," said Vice Chancellor M. Aslam.

The award was...

New Delhi: A group of 19 school students from Pakistan will visit Delhi from Feb 8-14 under the "Students Exchange for Change", an initiative launched by two NGOS of Pakistan and India.

Routes 2 Roots from India and Citizens Archive of Pakistan had launched this campaign in 2010 to promote relations between both the countries.

The 16 month programme was divided into four parts and...

New Delhi: With only five percent of its people able to speak "good English", Algeria has invited Indians to teach the language in its universities, according to the envoy of the largely Arabic and French-speaking North African nation.

Some 100 institutes affiliated to 13 Algerian universities need nearly 250 English teachers and his government is keen to have Indian educators, said Ambassador...

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), one of the world's largest universities, will be focusing on more foreign tie-ups in order to provide more quality education to students, Vice Chancellor M. Aslam said.

"IGNOU should get more international presence, so we will have more foreign tie-ups as we want to provide more quality education to large number of students. We are...

New Delhi: A new and improved website of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), with easy access to regional centres, was inaugurated here on Thursday.

The inauguration was done by Vice Chancellor M. Aslam after unfurling the tricolour at the campus on Republic Day.

The website has a better look, easier accessibility and more user-friendly.

"The sites have a unified...

London: A British school is compelled to offer anger management lessons to its pupils as young as five after 40 of its rowdy students were excluded for bad behavior.

Psychologists and other mental health professionals have been drafted to help pupils at the Hillcrest Primary School, in the run-down Leeds suburb of Chapeltown in Yorkshire county.

The move came after inspecting officials labelled...

Thiruvananthapuram: Sam Pitroda, advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on Wednesday launched the country's first cloud-based tablet solution for school students called 'e-tutor tablet'.

This can be used by students from Class 1 to 12.

Priced at Rs.7,500, inclusive of content, the product would be available in the market from April onwards.

The e-tutor tablet is a joint effort of Technopark-based...