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Young People Exposed to Lower Quality of Jobs: UN

Young People Exposed to Lower Quality of Jobs: UN

Young people are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than adults and continuously exposed to lower quality of jobs. The United Nations (UN) is observing July 15 as the World Youth Skills Day with a special event on the theme of “Skills Development to Improve Youth Employment.” Understanding…
Education Policy of India: Why Do You Send Your Child to School?

Education Policy of India: Why Do You Send Your Child to School?

स्कूल की बिल्डिंग स्कूल नहीं है। स्कूल का अर्थ तो स्कूल की पढ़ाई है, जो किसी स्कूल में नहीं हो रही। ~ Rakesh Raman The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), Government of India, has released the outlines of the government’s Draft National Education Policy, 2016. Released in the last…
Education Dilemma: Let Us Save the Lives of Our School Children

Education Dilemma: Let Us Save the Lives of Our School Children

Education Dilemma: Let Us Save the Lives of Our School Children Today, the Indian government boasts that India is a nation of the young people. But the government does not realize that in the absence of right education, these young people are like time bombs. By Rakesh Raman As the…
Should Indian Schools and Universities Teach Yoga?

Should Indian Schools and Universities Teach Yoga?

As nearly 80% of the 1.3 billion people of India are Hindus, it becomes a virtual compulsion for all political parties to woo Hindu voters. Politicians, therefore, play all types of tricks to bind Hindus with common threads. Yoga is one of them. By Rakesh Raman The unemployment in India…
Vidyanjali Invites Volunteers for School Activities in India

Vidyanjali Invites Volunteers for School Activities in India

Vidyanjali, which is being implemented under the aegis of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, will enhance the community involvement in government-run elementary schools. The education minister of India Smriti Zubin Irani introduced in New Delhi Thursday ‘Vidyanjali’- a school volunteer programme. The programme is supposed to inculcate reading habits among children…
Meet the Scripps National Spelling Bee Champions

Meet the Scripps National Spelling Bee Champions

Jairam Hathwar, a 13-year-old speller from Painted Post, New York, and Nihar Janga, an 11-year-old speller from Austin, Texas, are co-champions of the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee, presented by Kindle. It was a marathon finish for these two competitors. In the 39th round, Hathwar correctly spelled "Feldenkrais," a medical…
NASA Next: News Magazine for Young Space Explorers

NASA Next: News Magazine for Young Space Explorers

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland released the first issue of its new online news magazine NASA Next on Monday, May 23, 2016. NASA Next is a news magazine made entirely for kids and teens in grades 5 through 8. The magazine breaks down complex science and brings…