Students shut down Northern California freeway while protesting campus funding cuts

Protesting students shut down Oakland freeway

Nearly a million Class 10 students start Bihar board exams

PATNA - Nearly one million students across Bihar started their Class 10 exams Friday. The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB), which conducts the examinations, has made elaborate arrangements for peaceful and fair exams.

India plans to set up finance corporation for study loans

NEW DELHI - India plans to set up a National Education Finance Corporation (NEFC) to provide loans for educational infrastructure expansion and re-finance study loans to needy students who otherwise fail to pursue higher education.

School students win nationwide wildlife painting contest

NEW DELHI - Two students from Tamil Nadu and Assam have won a nationwide school-level wildlife painting competition held as part of the Animal Action Week (AAW) organised in 16 countries, the organisers said here Friday.

CBSE class 10 exams: students take first compulsory paper

NEW DELHI - Class 10 students of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) made their way anxiously to exam centres around the country Friday to answer their first major and compulsory paper Social Science, though some had taken their first exam March 3 in Music, an optional subject.

Rowdy students throw punches, block gates to protest funding cuts at US campuses

Rowdy protester target funding cuts at US campuses

Tuition protest at UW-Milwaukee turns violent; 15 detained after scuffling with police

15 UW-Milwaukee protesters detained after scuffles

When schools fail, firing teachers may work; harsh method had mixed results in Chicago, LA