5 questions to help every district leader make better decisions
Key points: Stronger instructional decisions come from asking better questions We stopped waiting for the teacher pipeline–we built our own Building inclusive school communities through integrated digital strategy For more news on district investments, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Every district leader has experienced it. A new instructional program promises stronger student achievement. An intervention […]
Delhi Government Announces Construction of Hostels for 10,000 Students, Ensuring Safety and Affordability, ETEducation
Delhi government has decided to construct hostels for 10,000 students: CM Rekha Gupta New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has announced that the Delhi government has decided to construct fully equipped and secure hostel facilities for 10,000 students enrolled across colleges and universities in the city. According to a press release issued by the […]
Luna 2: touched by humans, touches the moon
Picture this. You are standing on a rotating sphere that is revolving around another bigger sphere. You are then required to shoot an arrow at another smaller sphere, which is revolving around the sphere on which you are standing and is also rotating at its own pace. Given that both your platform and your target […]
Spotted hyena daughters inherit rank, resources, and a taste for power
Among people, it is common knowledge that privilege is often inherited. But according to new findings, hyenas also inherit resources and status, and not just their forebears’ genes, from their parents. The findings were published recently in Science Advances — and they challenge the traditional evolutionary theories that assume males always face greater reproductive competition. […]
Trump Administration Carbon Limits: ‘Unleash American energy’: Trump moves to scrap Biden-era carbon limits on US coal & gas power plants
Trump’s latest climate rollback targets carbon emissions from US power plants The Donald Trump administration is set to scrap Biden-era limits on carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, marking another major rollback of US climate policy and removing restrictions that targeted a sector responsible for nearly a quarter of the country’s greenhouse gas […]
Tamil Nadu plans to establish a new university exclusively for emerging technologies, ETEducation
Tamil Nadu to set up university for emerging technologies CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu higher education department plans to set up a new university for emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotechnology, climate technology and space technology. Named Periyar Institute of Emerging Technology, it will first be launched as an autonomous institute under Anna University, […]
Karnataka Considers Reinstating Physical Marks Cards Amid Student Concerns, ETEducation
In K’taka, teachers now get ‘Tr’ prefix Bengaluru: The higher education department is considering revoking its earlier circular on not issuing physical marks cards and only relying on digital ones. At a meeting of vice-chancellors with higher education minister Basavaraj Rayareddi at Karnataka State Higher Education Council, VCs raised the issue of lack of physical […]
Teachers Took Nail Cutters, Not Textbooks, to This Tribal Hamlet in Tamil Nadu. Two Years Later, 50 Children Are in School
On a Saturday afternoon in Kodaikanal’s Kombai-Perungadu tribal settlement, a 5-year-old girl appears on a video call, her hair neatly plaited, her blue frock crisp. She offers a shy smile. “Hi! Yen per Karnika (My name is Karnika),” she says in Tamil. She is delighted to have someone asking her question after question, and even the […]
Science Snapshots: September 13, 2026
Elderly Meitei women sell betel nuts in Ima market in Imphal, Manipur, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Human drug use began millennia earlier than believed Researchers examined the teeth of two ancient hunter-gatherers from Sulawesi, Indonesia, dating back as far as 25,000 years, and found unusual, deep grooves in the teeth caused by sucking on […]
Controversy over ‘Mathathon’ at Caltech
A view of the Millikan Library at Caltech, 2013. | Photo Credit: Canon.vs.nikon (CC BY-SA) A new event at the California Institute of Technology, called ‘Mathathon’, pulled together by a group of undergraduate students to “promote the responsible use of AI in mathematics” quickly ran into controversy last week. Scheduled for October 30 to November […]