50% of parents unaware about their childrens online activities

A nationwide survey carried out to see parents’ awareness parents about internet security and their children’s online activities has brought out some shocking results. More than 50% parents from the surveyed families did not have any idea about parental control applications that can be used online to prevent their children from surfing harmful or objectionable

Creative geniuses

I Genius Scholarship aims to inspire students to take the less travelled paths in their creative journey. Ruskin Bond’s enthusiasm as he talks about the children he’s met for the ‘I Genius Scholarship’ screening is obvious. “There is a lot of talent out there, children who can dance, sing, play the piano and do taekwando.

Father called, teen jumps from school building

NEW DELHI: After a bottle of alcohol was recovered from his bag and he was asked to call his father to school, a 17-year-old student of Somerville School, Vasundhara Enclave, allegedly jumped from the third floor of the building around 12.45pm on Tuesday. The Class XI arts student was rushed to Dharamshila Hospital and is

Shanghai schools experiment with less work, more play

Wang Chuanfu, head of BYD, the Chinese electric car company that Warren Buffett loves best, is famous for saying he does not understand the concept of leisure. He told the FT recently, “I enjoy working very much, if you ask me to go sightseeing for a day I probably wouldn’t enjoy it”. He predicted that the

Teachers feel lost in classroom

Come September 5, the teaching fraternity is all set to celebrate Teacher’s Day. But for teachers in Bangalore, it is not celebration time. They are a disgruntled lot as they feel their powers have been clipped because of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, which does not specify the exact role of a teacher. “Teachers