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Rajya Sabha Member and former Union Minister Karan Singh has said that a value orientation was missing in the current education system as a consequence of constant neglect of the great thoughts in every religious system practised in India and those that represented a wholesome philosophy. “Science is a blessing but one should have the… Read More: Value orientation missing in education system: Karan Singh »

The report says that ‘mortgage deed in the name of the Governor was not furnished by 14 employees for the period May 1, 2011, to March 30, 2012, by 28 employees in 2012-13 and 21 employees in 2013-14. On the one hand when there are no hostels set up by the Higher Education Department for… Read More: Education dept advances several crores to staff 'without documents' »

ALBANY – Three groups pushing education reforms that spent heavily lobbying state government this year funded at least a portion of their efforts though donations whose original sources are essentially untraceable. Those question marks remain despite a 2011 ethics reform law meant to illuminate the sources of funding behind major lobbying efforts. Gaps in the… Read More: Education lobbyists' backers stay in the shadows »

Citizens of Logba resident in Accra and Tema have launched an education fund to support brilliant but needy students in the Logba traditional area in the Afadjato South District of the Volta region. The fund known as the Akpana Education Fund seeks to mobilise resources to help selected pupils of Logba to pursue secondary education.… Read More: Logba citizens mobilise to set up education fund »

Pearson is selling its stake in the Financial Times to Nikkei Inc., a leading Japanese media organization, for $1.3 billion. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg News) Pearson, the world’s largest education company, the one that testing critics love to hate, wants to get much, much bigger. It is selling other investments so that it can focus entirely on… Read More: Pearson selling some investments to be '100 percent' focused on… »

OCR has said it will need to hire an extra 5,000 staff to mark exams, to cope with changes instigated by Michael Gove during his time as Education Secretary, which have been dismissed by teachers’ unions as “poorly thought-through” . The reforms, which switch the emphasis from coursework marked by teachers to end-of-course exams, will… Read More: Michael Gove's education reforms blamed by exam board for shortage… »

On Broadcasting House, one of my favourite Radio 4 programmes, was this morning discussing a report (pdf) from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty commission. It finds, amongst other things, that ‘education at a private or a Grammar school is also associated with an increased chance of labour market success’ amongst dim kids. Who’d have… Read More: The myth of Britain's two-tier education system »

They will insist that membership of the 28-nation bloc has had an “overwhelmingly positive” impact on the standard of higher education and has helped to cement the strong global reputation of Britain’s universities. The intervention of Universities UK in the debate over Britain’s place in the EU comes amid preparations for David Cameron’s promised vote… Read More: EU referendum: 'Brexit' would harm higher education and research, universities… »