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With the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) officially announcing for its decision to introduce grading for Class X from 2008, Board examinations will finally come without the pass or fail tag for students.

The nine-point scale grading system will require students to get qualifying grades in four of the five subjects to get promoted to the next level. It had been decided not to carry pass or fail on the marksheets of students, who will have four options to improve on...

The importance of IT in education, whether it is its use to support teaching and learning, or to develop student IT capability, or to support educational management, is vast and recognised throughout the world. It is used by teachers for illustrating the pictures and diagrams to be studied through Powerpoint presentations.
Technology offers the opportunity to change the roles that teachers and students have traditionally played. Administrative uses of technology allow teachers...

India's captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, led the accolades that poured out of Gwalior after Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to score a double hundred in a one-day international, to lead India to victory over South Africa by 153 runs. But perhaps the most astute observation came from the former Pakistan captain Aamer Sohail, who said: "The biggest reason he gets all these records is because he respects the game tremendously.

"We all know how talented and how passionate he...