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The journalism faculty in Delhi University is going all out to make the admission process more transparent and student-friendly this year.

With the Council of Indian Secondary Certificate Examination (CISCE) dropping one of the subjects in Group I (environment education) from the coming academic year, students will be left only with five subjects in Group I and II.

In an open letter to all affiliated school principals, the CBSE chairman has announced the launch of a new website for the board’s academic section.

The school education department officials fear that many of the educational institutes are seeking to change to the minority status to evade reserving 25% seats for the poor, as the rule applies to only non-minority schools.

When MBBS students go to medical college this year they'll have to carry yoga mats, bats and rackets along with their white coats and stethoscopes.

In a tough stand against ragging, the Punjab government has issued strict instructions to all state and private technical education institutes to take steps to prevent such incidents.

Aspiring doctors will have to spend a year working in rural areas before getting their MBBS degrees, as the government has decided to make rural posting compulsory for them.

Kalyani is the topper among the students who took the exams in India while Rohan Sampath of Modern High School in Dubai came first globally with 99.5%.

All seven schools, which come under the Council for Indian School Certification Examinations, have performed well in Indian Certificate of Secondary Examinations (ICSE) 10th, and Indian School Certificate (ISC) 12th Std (Science) exams.

Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University (HNGU) has issued notices to 21 self-financed BCA, BEd and BBA colleges for violating its as well as that of University Grants Commission's norms.

Forty-two students, who had appeared for the ICSE (class X), and 16 students, who sat for ISC (class XII) from the city, have cleared their exams.

The pass percentage for the Class XII Indian School Certificate examination, the results of which were announced on Saturday, dropped marginally by 0.16 in Maharashtra to 98.86%.

After the class X & XII results were declared on Saturday, TOI spoke to some top rankers in the city who denied having taken tuitions or going to coaching institutes.

Mathematics emerged as the favourite subject among toppers, as most of them hit the magic figure.No wonder, the toppers claim that mathematics is their favourite subject.

Uttar Pradesh put up a poor show in comparison to other states in the ICSE and ISC examinations conducted by the Council for the Indian School of Certificate Examinations (CISCE).

For the first time, an Indian student from Dubai has emerged as the overall topper in the Class XII ISC exams, the results of which were declared on Saturday even as girls outshone boys.

Schools from the southern region repeated their sterling performance of last year when they had the best pass percentage for both Class 10 and Class 12 ISCE/ISC results.

Girls have outshone boys in both ICSE and ISC from the state.The pass percentage of girls in ICSE is 99.04% while for boys it's 98.31%.

Once a sleeping town in the state, Kota later became the hub for IIT-JEE coaching in the country.As many as 35 institutes have opened here which help students crack the IIT-JEE exam every year.

The schools are affiliated to the New Delhi-based Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) which declared the results on Saturday.