Another year, another wave of students trampling across autumn leaves, making their way to their first lectures heady with a cocktail of excitement, apprehension and a nasty hangover. But while every ...

While tablets and smart screens enter a few classrooms, nearly one-fourth of schools in India function without blackboards. The study was conducted in 750 schools across 71 districts in 13 states, ...

Blackboards, the legend goes, were invented by a teacher. In the mid-19th century, James Pillans was headmaster of the Royal High School in Edinburgh, Scotland. Teaching geography, he found himself in ...

With an aim to improve the quality of school education by focussing on technological upgrades, the central government plans to shift country’s schools from ‘blackboards to digital boards’ in the next ...