UNESCO education report advises ban on smartphones in school

Jul 28, 2023, at 10:03 pm

New York: A new UN report raised concerns on Wednesday about the excessive use of smartphones, calling for them to be banned in schools worldwide. According to the UN's education, science and culture agency UNESCO, the over-use of mobile phones impacts learning.

Kolkata school shines in All India Co-Ed Day School rankings

Oct 19, 2022, at 05:37 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: In the recently announced All India Co-Ed Day School rankings (2022-23), Kolkata based South City International School has bagged fifth position both in the city and state level categories, the institution said in a release.

5 Signs That It's Time to Change Your Child's School

Feb 07, 2019, at 03:28 pm

Finding a school for your child is a tough task. However, the difficulty level surpasses this limit when you have to pull your child out of their school and select another one. This challenging decision often gets ignored,and parents don’t understand if changing school is the need of the hour or not. 

Chhattisgarh school started with 7 students and 2 Franciscan sisters to soon complete 25 years

Nov 02, 2018, at 06:00 pm

Bilaspur, Oct 31 (IBNS): It is hard to imagine that St Francis Higher Secondary School in Bilaspur (Chattisgarh), with its 7.5 acres of modern techno-savvy campus and five thousand students, began its journey under a shed in 1980 with seven students and two Franciscan sisters, Jocita and Elisa, from a Sisters of the Poor Catholic congregation in Germany.

Despite decades-long effort, one-in-five children worldwide out of school – UN cultural agency

Mar 03, 2018, at 09:09 pm

New York, Mar 3 (JEN): Updated data reveals that some 263 million – one-in-five – children, adolescents and youth worldwide are out school, a figure that has barely changed over the past five years, according to a new United Nations cultural agency report.