• COMPUTERS
    Old computers refurbished for Mid-Ohio Valley schools

    Photo by Kate York Fox Computers owner Jonathan Jeffers, front, and Paul Prachun look over a computer they refurbished at the shop. MARIETTA — A local business owner is hoping to turn one man’s trash into a local school district’s treasure, with plans to refurbish computers and put them directly into the hands of students. […]

  • ALL DEALS
    AICTE reduces land requirement for opening engineering schools

    National Institute of Industrial Engineering. Mumbai Students coming out of their classroom. Main building seen behind. New Delhi: Technical education regulator the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has reduced the land requirement to set up engineering schools, along with ushering in measures to improve quality, facilitate closure of ailing schools and tide over […]

  • NEWS
    Private schools fill just 15% of 2.2 mn seats reserved for poor students

    Governments can spend as much as 20% of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) for reimbursing schools for admitting students under this provision of the RTE act. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint New Delhi: Six years after the Right to Education (RTE) Act set aside 25% of seats in private schools for poor students, implementation of the plan […]