Month: July 2016

Prakash Javadekar lighting the lamp at the inauguration of the IIT-Goa, at Farmagudi, in Ponda, Goa on July 30, 2016

Learning Teachers

How to Prepare for the IIT Entrance Examination

Prakash Javdekar, the Minister for Human Resource Development in India, inaugurated Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Goa on Saturday, July 30th. The newly set up IIT Goa will function from a temporary campus at Goa Engineering College, Farmagudi and will…

July 31, 2016 RMN Kids

Food Parents

How Breastmilk Reduces a Child’s Risk of Death

According to UNICEF, 77 million newborns globally are not breastfed within first hour of life and delayed breastfeeding increases risk of newborn deaths by up to 80 per cent. Some 77 million newborns – or 1 in 2 – are…

July 29, 2016 RMN Kids

Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi, Chairman of CBSE

Learning Teachers

Need to Improve Quality of School Education: New CBSE Chairman

The new CBSE chairman emphasises the need for improving the quality of education in schools across the country with ample thrust upon teacher quality to sustain improvement in the standard of education. By Rakesh Raman The Central Board of Secondary…

July 27, 2016 RMN Kids

Young children forced by parents to sell eatables outside a school building in New Delhi, India. Photo: Rakesh Raman

Learning Parents

UNICEF Disturbed Over India’s Child Labour Bill

UNICEF India said Monday that it welcomes the Rajya Sabha’s recent approval to amend the Child Labour Bill prohibiting children under the age of 14 from working. But it is concerned about one provision that could further disadvantage the most…

July 26, 2016 RMN Kids

Learning Teachers

Sahitya Akademi Invites Applications for Yuva Puraskar

For Yuva Puraskar 2017, Sahitya Akademi is inviting books from publishers and young Indian writers of the age of 35 and below in all the 24 languages recognized by the Akademi. Sahitya Akademi under Ministry of Culture had introduced ‘Yuva…

July 25, 2016 RMN Kids

Poor children who do not have access to proper schooling in India. Photo: Rakesh Raman

Charity Learning

Minority School Students Can Apply for Scholarships

It is a sin to treat a person differently based on their caste, creed, color, and religious affiliations. Such a treatment not only kills the spirit of competition particularly among students, but it also amounts to human discrimination. The beneficiaries…

July 23, 2016 RMN Kids

स्कूल की बिल्डिंग स्कूल नहीं है। स्कूल का अर्थ तो स्कूल की पढ़ाई है। Photo: Rakesh Raman

Learning Parents Teachers

अध्यापकों का आतंक – Teachers’ Terror – कैसे करें शिकायत?

गुरु गोविंद दोनों खड़े, काके लागूं पाँय । बलिहारी गुरु आपनो, गोविंद दियो मिलाय । With his verses, the Indian mystic poet Saint Kabir had given a higher status to teacher than even the God. However, today’s school teachers –…

July 22, 2016 RMN Kids

The CEO, NITI Aayog, Shri Amitabh Kant, the Secretary, School Education and Literacy, Dr. Subash Chandra Khuntia and other dignitaries at the inauguration of the Expert Consultative Group Meeting on Creating a framework for operationalizing 500 Atal Tinkering Labs, in New Delhi on July 19, 2016.

Learning Tech Trends

Government Invites Applications for Atal Tinkering Laboratories

With a vision to ‘Cultivate One Million Children in India as Neoteric Innovators,’ Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is establishing Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATLs) in schools across India. The objective of this scheme is to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in…

July 19, 2016 RMN Kids