NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Lee’s school voucher proposal has cleared its first hurdle inside Tennessee’s GOP-dominant statehouse but not without facing a wide range of questions from lawmakers uneasy about the broad scope…
West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee. Several organizations of university teachers had said they would take legal action if the state government implemented the new terms and conditions. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint Kolkata: The West Bengal government…
Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ went on sale for the first time in India on Friday. While the handsets are available across various channels, Airtel has also introduced the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ smartphones on its online store with down…
A Muslim woman has dropped her plan to join a teacher training course at an institute in neighbouring Malappuram district after the institution told her that she could not attend classes wearing ‘Purdah’. Husna, decided…
The year is 2030. Former president Donald Trump’s border wall, once considered a political inevitability, was never built. Instead, its billions of dollars of funding were poured into something the world had never seen: a…
The director of the US Office of Government Ethics has criticised Donald Trump’s plan to hand control of his business empire to his sons before his inauguration on 20 January. The plan does not match…
Ministers’ grammar school plans have been dealt two blows, with lawyers arguing that a key plank of the scheme is ‘not lawful’ and plans for a comprehensive to convert scuppered by lack of parental support…
One teacher shares some simple tricks for making your maths lessons more exciting All too often, maths gets branded a “dull” subject. Particularly if you are a non-specialist, it can be difficult to think of…
The government must plan now to avoid a post-Brexit languages crisis, say a cross-party group of MPs and peers. Trade talks after leaving the EU will need more UK officials with language skills, say the…
Councils have hit out at government plans to remove their role in boosting school standards in England. From next year, the civil servants who oversee academies and free schools will take over responsibility for raising…