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News18 rounds up undergraduate BSc and BS programmes in artificial intelligence offered by IITs, covering machine learning, data science, programming, deep learning and cybersecurity. It lists eligibility, duration and admission details so Class 12 students can compare before applying.
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BITS Design School in Mumbai is accepting applications for its four-year Bachelor of Design (Honours), with 210 seats. The last date is 31 January 2027. Applicants can use scores from BITSDAT, UCEED or NID's design aptitude test.
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With costs rising and visas uncertain in the US and UK, more Lucknow students are learning Japanese, French and German for the 2027 intake. Class 12 student Ashmita Sinha is learning Japanese alongside school to study automobile engineering in Japan.
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IIM Bangalore, long known for postgraduate management, now offers two four-year residential BSc Honours programmes in Economics and Data Sciences, plus a three-year online BBA in Digital Business and Entrepreneurship. Jagran Josh compares eligibility, fees and selection.
Read more at Jagran Josh →Nearly 40,000 UK 18-year-olds applied to the most selective courses by the 15 October deadline, down 4.9% from last year's peak, UCAS says. Applicants aged 19 rose 16%, and international undergraduate applicants fell 7.3%. Gap years appear to be having a moment.
Read more at UCAS →About 16% of 3,800 undergraduates surveyed by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation had changed majors over worries AI would undermine their careers, Good Times reports. As many as 47% had considered it. Students in health care and natural sciences were least likely to switch.
Read more at goodtimes.sc →CBSE's fourth national summit, with Sahodaya School Complexes of Delhi-NCR, aimed to bring skill education into mainstream schooling. School Education Secretary TK Anil Kumar listed technology and digital safety, design and innovation, the National Credit Framework and career guidance as focus areas.
Read more at EdexLive →California's 2026 school performance data shows only 55% of students statewide were considered ready for college or a career, and a majority still cannot read or do maths at grade level. One major district admitted it is significantly off track.
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Siddhartha Manaktala, a Grade 12 IB student at Pathways World School, Aravali, has built EyeSpy, an AI platform that screens for eight common eye diseases. He told Firstpost the aim is to make early detection more accessible.
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Class 12 student Kabir Gupta has built MediTrack, an AI platform that turns medical reports into plain regional Indian languages over WhatsApp and voice. The idea is to cut the anxious wait between getting results and seeing a doctor.
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Vidushee Shekhar built Sambhav to give children who avoid speaking English in class a quieter place to practise. One early user, a nine-year-old who would not read aloud in front of others, improved steadily over several weeks, Outlook reports.
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Avani Rao of The International School Bangalore built VRView, a phone-based virtual reality museum where students play games and earn artifacts from Karnataka's history. She has piloted it with 300 middle school students at two NGO schools. No bus permission slips required.
Read more at Outlook India →
Bailey Quinn Frank, 15, of Fort Lauderdale won the $25,000 Thermo Fisher Scientific ASCEND Award at the Junior Innovators Challenge in Washington, D.C. She built a low-cost environmental DNA sampler that collects airborne bacteria, Society for Science said.
Read more at The Times of India →Class 7 student Rajeswari Aiyappan of Amrita Vidyalaya, Bogadi, won two golds and two silvers in the Girls Under-11 category at the Asian Schools Chess Championships in Tula, Russia. She scored seven from nine and earned the Women Candidate Master title.
Read more at newskarnataka.com →Niyola Pinto and Ilaan Shafeek of Indian School Bausher won six medals between them for India at the Asian Schools Team Chess Championship in Russia. Niyola won rapid gold, and Ilaan took three silvers across classical, rapid and blitz.
Read more at Oman Observer →Harshit Chintan Padia of AB School, Navsari, secured second rank in the national Maths Genius competition run by I Am Samarth, winning ₹1,50,001. NewsX says it took 111 attempts and about 7,500 questions at 84% accuracy. The 3 has been avenged.
Read more at newsx.com →A Nepal student team using satellite data to tackle water scarcity, and an Indian teacher linking climate education with menstrual health and waste reduction, won the Oxford Saïd Global Climate Tech Challenge 2026. Finals were held on 25 October with teams from nine countries.
Read more at pressreleases.responsesource.com →Six students from BMC schools were recognised in Blue Skies 2026, a contest by the civic body's Environment and Climate Change Department for Classes 7 to 9. Five won in the poster category and one for a rap song about clean air and climate.
Read more at Free Press Journal →Chloe Kizito, 17, researches online claims and debunks them in videos for young audiences as part of the MediaSmarts teen fact-checking network. She is the first recipient of MediaSmarts' Youth Leader Award for digital media literacy. Some teens play video games. She fact-checks them.
Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com →Kajal Dhochak, 18, won silver in the 76kg category at the senior World Championships in Astana on her debut, adding to her two U20 world titles. India Today says she is India's first female heavyweight medallist at the Worlds.
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A dwarf planet candidate provisionally named ED138 has been detected beyond Pluto by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, which can image the whole sky every three days. If confirmed it would join Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris, CNN reports.
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ISRO's GSLV-F18 is scheduled to launch NVS-03 from Sriharikota at 11.51 pm on 30 October. It is the third next-generation NavIC navigation satellite and carries an indigenous atomic clock along with procured ones, The Hindu reports.
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ISRO chairman V. Narayanan says India aims to have four operational launch pads by 2029, including a separate 2,000-acre SSLV facility at Kulasekarapattinam, Tamil Nadu. Preparation for Gaganyaan and Chandrayaan-5 was also reviewed.
Read more at currentaffairs.adda247.com →NASA's Anil Menon and the Canadian Space Agency's Joshua Kutryk were scheduled to spacewalk on 29 October to install the seventh of eight roll-out solar arrays on the ISS. One more spacewalk on 5 November will complete the years-long upgrade, Spaceflight Now says.
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A Southwest Research Institute team used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS three times, before and after its closest pass by the sun. Water ice leaves a fingerprint in infrared light, and this comet's showed a subtle difference.
Read more at mashable.com →The Zoological Survey of India has identified Tetronarce ramanamurthyi, a new electric ray from deep waters off India's southwestern coast, using nine specimens. It is the first confirmed record of the genus in the northern Indian Ocean. It is named after Deep Ocean Mission director M V Ramana Murthy.
Read more at The Indian Express →Zoological Survey of India scientists have described Allocaecilius nilgiriensis, a new barklouse insect from the Southern Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu and Keralam. It is only the second member of its genus recorded in India and brings the world total to thirteen.
Read more at researchmatters.in →Paludohadros proudlovii, a plant-eater about as heavy as a large hippo, roamed southern England 125 million years ago. Its bones sat in the Natural History Museum's collections for roughly 25 years before researchers realised it was a new species. Check your cupboards.
Read more at zmescience.com →A new fungus from Yunnan, China, officially Dianjunus rex, can grow fruiting bodies up to 20 inches tall and weighing 4.9 pounds, research in Frontiers says. That makes it the largest known in the Ascomycota group, from a lineage about 65 million years old.
Read more at dexerto.com →TOI-561 b, 280 light-years away, is covered in molten lava and blasted by radiation, so astronomers assumed its atmosphere boiled off long ago. After watching it for 37 hours with JWST, researchers now think it has a thick one, Popular Science reports.
Read more at popsci.com →Hubble observations show tiny comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák nearly stopped spinning and then turned backward, Futura reports, and its lead researcher expects it to self-destruct. Comets, it turns out, are still full of surprises 75 years after the dirty snowball model.
Read more at futura-sciences.com →Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team found possible evidence of an exomoon in the CD-35 2722 system. The object is at least comparable to Jupiter in mass and orbits a brown dwarf. If confirmed, it could blur the line between planets and moons.
Read more at tech.news.am →String theorist Ashoke Sen, ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair professor at ICTS-TIFR in Bengaluru, has received the 2026 Oskar Klein Medal. String theory proposes that matter is made of tiny one-dimensional strings instead of point particles.
Read more at manoramayearbook.in →Partik Kumar and Dheeraj Chaudhary of IMD's Meteorological Centre in Shillong will join the 46th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica. Their observations will help scientists understand climate variability and global weather patterns. Packing list presumably long.
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News18 offers six focus hacks for students who keep reaching for their phones while studying, from managing screen time to beating distractions before exams. The phone has been informed and remains unconcerned.
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Staying up late to study can backfire, a South African guide warns. Citing the Sleep Foundation, it says too little sleep can cut learning ability by as much as 40% and weakens concentration and memory. Extra hours can leave less in your head.
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Namibian general practitioner Cornelia Ndifon urges students to swap energy drinks and sugary snacks for balanced meals, water and sleep. Relying on caffeine to cram can leave students anxious and unable to concentrate. Sleep, she says, is actually therapy.
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Jagran Josh lists common mistakes ahead of the CBSE 2027 board exams and urges students to follow a study plan, practise sample papers, revise regularly and manage time. Avoiding them, it says, helps students write the exams with confidence.
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If an August 2026 A-level maths grade fell short, students can resit in summer 2027 as private candidates. All three Pearson Edexcel papers must be sat again, since A-levels are linear. The guide says start revising this autumn and book before Christmas.
Read more at swlondoner.co.uk →A Kansas State Collegian piece argues the students who adjust quickly to college are separated by habits, not intelligence. One-on-one tutoring, it says, is one of the less obvious places those habits get built, beyond preparing for the next test.
Read more at kstatecollegian.com →A machine learning study of nearly 15,000 university students in over 40 countries found the cognitive benefits of generative AI depend far less on frequency of use than on metacognitive habits such as self-testing. It was published in Discover Artificial Intelligence.
Read more at Bioengineer.org →JEE Main 2027 Session 1 registration is open until 22 November at 11.50 pm. EdexLive lists checks from NTA's bulletin, starting with updating Aadhaar details such as photograph, name, date of birth and address. Typos are best caught before, not after.
Read more at EdexLive →Notes from Earth5R on university applications, profile building and live projects near home. FIELDWORK is a mentored fellowship for school students.
On the first episode of Earth5R’s Sustainability Podcast, The Sustainability Lounge, renowned environmentalist and Earth5R founder Saurabh Gupta addressed college students, sharing insights about the exciting career opportunities in the climate change and sustainability sector.
Top investors in this industry include Adani , Data Power , and ReNew Power. Engineers, technicians, analysts, and researchers work in this field. This industry includes solar, wind, hydropower, and biofuels.
Discover how Earth5R’s sustainability skill training model is equipping India’s youth with green job skills in waste management, climate finance, and eco-entrepreneurship, aligning with Skill India and Startup India to build a resilient, future-ready workforce.
The concept of a circular economy has rapidly gained global attention as a potential solution to some of the most pressing environmental and economic challenges of our time. Unlike the traditional linear economy, which follows a “take, make, dispose” model, the circular economy emphasizes resource efficiency, waste minimization.
India-specific policy investigation: How Instagram (481M users), Swiggy, Zomato, and Shein exploit teenage dopamine responses, draining mental health, nutrition, ₹25,000+/month from families, and generating 22,000 tonnes of plastic waste monthly
Competitions, olympiads, contests and scholarships still open for school students. India first where we can. Each deadline was on the official page this morning.
Six Nepali school students have been selected for the Open World Astronomy Olympiad in Russia's Sirius Federal Territory from 6 to 14 November. The Nepal Astronomical Society organised a preparatory meeting for about 30 students, parents and scientists.
Read more at english.nepalnews.com →
The Hindu in School Science Festival and Maths Olympiad 2026, Ramanujam Spark Quest, will be held in Chikkamagaluru on 4 November and Shivamogga on 6 November. It includes an inter-school competition to nurture scientific curiosity and mathematical talent.
Read more at The Hindu →Ateneo BUILD has opened applications for the IOAI Philippines 2027 national selection for K-12 students born on or after 1 July 2007. It offers free AI training and a route to international contests. No programming experience is needed for the first round.
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ALLEN Career Institute held its TALLENTEX-2027 talent exam for Classes 5 to 10 on 25 October at 1,405 centres in 447 cities across 27 states and 3 union territories. More than 3.47 lakh students took part offline.
Read more at news.allen.in →NASA's Lunar Grounding Challenge offers $150,000 in prizes for ways to stop Artemis astronauts getting electric shocks when they touch their landers after exploring shadowed craters near the lunar South Pole. The culprit is triboelectric charging, the moon's version of a carpet shock.
Read more at starlust.org →The Mathematics Teachers' Association (India) has named schools banned or placed on probation over cheating in IOQM 2026 and explained the effect on the Regional Mathematical Olympiad. It says most schools conduct the exam honestly and the aim is fairness for honest students.
Read more at pw.live →The 2026 Unified Robotics League has 279 teams with 1,007 students from 254 UAE schools. At least half of each team must be students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, working together on robot design and coding, Khaleej Times reports.
Read more at khaleejtimes.com →Velammal Academy, Nolambur, Chennai, won the CBSE National U-11 Boys Chess Championship with nine match points from four wins and a draw. Velammal Vidyalaya, Mangadu finished second and Modern School, Barakhamba third.
Read more at chessbase.in →Chrisland High School, Lekki, became national champion in both the junior and senior secondary categories of Science Olympiad Nigeria 2026, beating nine schools in each at Anchor University, Lagos. Its Division B and C teams represented Lagos State.
Read more at THISDAY →A team from Caleb British International School, Abijo, Lagos, won Zecathon 6.0, Zenith Bank's innovation contest for schools, and the ₦5,000,000 grand prize for their project ReLearn. They beat finalists from across Nigeria.
Read more at independent.ng →Five Mindanao secondary schools are in the national top 20 of the 10th DOST-SEI iMake.WeMake competition, where high school innovators build tech solutions to community, environmental and farm problems. One Iligan City school made it for the third time.
Read more at mindanaogoldstardaily.com →Divna Zhelecheva from Burgas won first prize and Petra Landzheva third at the 21st International Painting and Graphics Competition In My Homeland in Minsk. The contest drew 6,770 works from 24 countries, and their teacher Sevina Traykova was also noted.
Read more at burgasmedia.com →Omar, nine, an Egyptian boy living in Australia, is taking part in the Arab Reading Challenge for the first time, Khaleej Times reports. He started reading only eight months ago and says that if he wins, he will donate the prize money.
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The Federal Bank Hormis Memorial Foundation is inviting applications from students from economically weaker sections who have joined the first year of select professional courses, including MBBS, BDS, BTech, BArch and BSc Nursing, for 2026 to 27.
Read more at Tripura Star News →
A counsellor writing in News18 says fully funded scholarships rarely come down to luck and usually go wrong at the planning stage. Families often say they will sort out the money later, and later, she writes, is where most scholarship dreams fall apart.
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Road Forward, a volunteer group on New York's East End, gives multi-year scholarships and mentoring to high school seniors without the means for college. One recent recipient, a top student who loved maths, applied to a SUNY college on her phone because she had no computer.
Read more at jameslanepost.com →
Tennessee is urging high school seniors to apply for the TN Promise scholarship before 2 November. It is a last-dollar award, covering tuition and mandatory fees left after Pell, HOPE and other aid, at community colleges, TCATs and other qualifying institutions.
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Reinhardt University has announced two scholarships from Fall 2027 to make private higher education affordable for low and middle-income families across seven North Georgia counties. Eligible new students can receive free or reduced tuition.
Read more at wbhfradio.org →TOPDON USA's Techs of Tomorrow programme will give four annual awards totalling $37,000 to students pursuing automotive technology. Each comes with a professional-grade TOPDON toolbox. Industry leaders will sit on the selection committee.
Read more at aftermarketmatters.com →SBGA, a Las Vegas group that has helped small businesses for nearly two decades, has launched a $2,500 scholarship for US students planning careers in business, entrepreneurship or nonprofit work. Applications are open until 31 January 2027 at sbgascholarship.com.
Read more at Yahoo Finance →Mary and Jim Carder have set up the Carder-Swiger Family Doddridge County Vocational Scholarship for local high school seniors heading into technical, vocational and health care training from 2027, through the Doddridge County Community Foundation in West Virginia.
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NTA has reduced JEE Main 2027 exam cities from 323 to 310, with 301 in India and nine abroad. Ten domestic cities were removed across Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana and West Bengal. Check the list before choosing.
Read more at Education Times →
NTA has published the JEE Main 2027 syllabus for Paper 1 (BE and BTech), Paper 2A (BArch) and Paper 2B (BPlanning). Physics and Chemistry have 20 units each and Mathematics has 14. The PDF is on jeemain.nta.nic.in.
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BSEB has extended registration for students who will sit the 2028 Matric and Intermediate exams, currently in Classes 9 and 11, to 6 November 2026. The extra time lets schools finish pending registrations on separate portals for each class.
Read more at Education Times →CBSE is expected to release the 2027 Class 10 and 12 board exam date sheet soon, possibly by the end of this month, going by past years. Students can download it from cbse.gov.in without signing in. Refreshing the page will not make it arrive faster.
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CISCE is expected to release the ICSE and ISC 2027 date sheets in the first or second week of November. Last year's schedule came out on 13 November. Students will be able to download them from cisce.org.
Read more at India TV →CUET UG, run by NTA, is the single-window entrance test for BA, BSc, BCom, BBA and BCA admissions at central, state, deemed and private universities. PW's guide sets out expected timelines, eligibility, steps and documents. The official notification is still awaited.
Read more at pw.live →Students appearing for the CBSE Class 10 and 12 board exams in 2027 should read the board's instructions carefully, check admit cards and follow official notifications to avoid last-minute problems, PW advises. Schedules and circulars should be verified on CBSE's portal.
Read more at pw.live →The British Examination Centre, set up under CEG Education Holdings, has launched in Colombo as an independent exam and assessment centre and a Cambridge Associate. Cambridge Assessment International Education's country head for Sri Lanka and Maldives, Zahara Ansary, attended.
Read more at dailymirror.lk →A student opinion piece at Richard Montgomery High School says Montgomery County Public Schools' new regional model, approved on 26 March 2026, restricts county-wide access to its IB programme. RM's IB programme began in 1987, the first in the county.
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The UK's 28 October Budget says the graduate visa will be two years for those graduating from high-compliance universities with strong labour market outcomes, The PIE News reports. The general route still drops to 18 months from January 2027. Eligibility details are not yet set out.
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UK Home Office data for the year to 30 September 2026 shows sponsored study visa applications down 19%, Financial Express reports. Skilled Worker applications fell 43% and Health and Care Worker applications 63%. Fewer people are applying to come to the UK at all.
Read more at The Financial Express →
Many German public universities charge no tuition, but Indian students still pay for housing, food, health insurance, travel, visa fees and other living costs, Education Times warns. Free, in this case, means free tuition.
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South Korea's proposed reforms would exempt international students with TOPIK Level 4 or higher, or Level 4 of the KIIP programme, from proving they can cover tuition and living costs, Business Today reports. Students seen as higher overstay risks may not qualify.
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The 404,500 international students who started UK courses in 2024 to 25 will bring £45.1 billion in benefits against £4.7 billion in public costs, according to a HEPI and Kaplan report by London Economics. Every 10 students generate about £1 million net.
Read more at The Indian Express →A preliminary ICEF Monitor analysis suggests Australian universities will raise international student tuition for 2027 more moderately than last year. Institutions are being cautious amid policy volatility, including the July 2026 rise in the non-refundable visa fee.
Read more at ICEF Monitor →New research from IDP Education finds students are highly aware of visa approval prospects from the earliest stage of research. Australia is still the top preference but its lead is slipping, and a third of students weigh AI's impact on jobs when choosing a course.
Read more at ICEF Monitor →For decades Asian students looked to the US, UK, Australia and Canada. ETEdge Insights argues the map is spreading out, with Asia becoming an increasingly important hub for learning, innovation and jobs. Traditional destinations are not declining, it says, just sharing.
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NCERT has introduced a 20-hour AI module for Classes 9 to 12 covering deepfake detection, data privacy, ethical AI use and computational thinking, ABP Live reports. Students will learn how machines learn from examples.
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A Virginia seventh grader named Eloise traces AI-generated answers back to sources and checks their reliability in her research class, GovTech reports. Students say they want AI literacy and purposeful use of technology, not tech for its own sake.
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A Vooys hackathon highlighted startups that value AI skills over academic background when hiring young developers, including high school students, Chosun Ilbo reports. Coding portfolios, it seems, are the new report cards for some employers.
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The West Palm Beach Center for Arts and Technology runs free AI and cybersecurity training that connects high school students and underemployed young adults with programmes that can lead to careers. Not every teen wants college, and some cannot afford it.
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Writing in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Rex Bringula and Fredrik Heintz propose LLM-Assisted Modern Programming Pedagogy, or LAMPP. They argue large language models have upended how programming is taught and the field lacks a theory-based response.
Read more at Bioengineer.org →A new University of Minnesota report finds generative AI use by students poses a severe threat to learning, MPR News reports. The report adds to a growing debate on how schools and colleges should handle the tools.
Read more at mprnews.org →Children pick up internet habits by watching how adults browse, what they click and how much they share, Tech Insider argues. Everyday habits matter more than formal lessons. The child is watching you accept all cookies.
Read more at tech-insider.org →Talks for teachers and school people. Each one was still up on YouTube this morning.
Empowering Teachers: Navigating Parental Concerns and Communicating Value. From English with Cambridge, 51 min.
English with Cambridge, 54 min.
Start the school year right Routines, relationships and results. From English with Cambridge, 55 min.
EdSurge notes New York City Public Schools and Los Angeles Unified have both paused AI in classrooms. The piece argues AI carries risk but students still need AI literacy, and asks who gets left behind when schools wait.
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Nathan Kraai writes in EdSurge that deciding whether students should use AI means balancing safety with the developmental need to learn to manage risk. He recalls a 12-foot metal slide from his childhood playground as the model.
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As the first cohort begins the IB Middle Years Programme in Bahrain's government schools, a four-day workshop prepared 38 teachers to assess students under the new programme, News of Bahrain reports.
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Tamil Nadu's teacher-training body is equipping postgraduate teachers in government high and higher secondary schools to use AI tools to create animated videos, audio, images and songs for lessons, starting with physics, chemistry and maths.
Read more at Elets Digital Learning →
As Bogotá restricts phones in schools, students at Colegio El Porvenir in Bosa use AI tools to investigate community problems from the environment to social issues, through an initiative called PorvenIA, The Bogotá Post reports.
Read more at thebogotapost.com →Sean McFadden has taught science for 13 years at Eagle Academy for Young Men II in Brooklyn, where students grow food in a hydroponics club and measure the air around their school. He has won a $20,000 Robertson Award for Teaching.
Read more at aol.com →Chalkbeat reports science of reading training is central to Michigan's literacy push. Hemlock teacher Karlee Little, 34, who studied teaching at Central Michigan University in 2010, says college never showed her step by step how children best learn to read.
Read more at chalkbeat.org →Anjan Banik, a Tripura science teacher and winner of the National Award for Science and Technology Communication 2022 to 23, has been invited as a solo delegate to ESTIC 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
Read more at Tripura Star News →A SHAPE America leader tells K-12 Dive that confidence and social skills built in physical education transfer to academics too. The full piece is behind a browser check, so this is from the teaser.
Read more at K-12 Dive →As Utah rolls out new core maths standards for Pre-K to Grade 2, the state is helping parents use maths language during play, K-12 Dive reports. The full story sits behind a browser check.
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MAGIC Incubation Centre, nodal coordinator for Atal Tinkering Labs in Marathwada, ran an online workshop on 22 October for principals and ATL teachers on utilisation certificates and online dashboards. NITI Aayog's Atal Mission led it. Tinkering, it turns out, includes forms.
Read more at lokmattimes.com →Some 87% of school leaders reported phishing or email compromise, and over 50% of schools and districts had a cybersecurity incident in the past year, a report by leading cybersecurity groups found, K-12 Dive says. The full piece is behind a browser check.
Read more at K-12 Dive →
A Pennsylvania Senate bill aims to keep teachers, not AI, at the front of classroom learning. Riverview School District superintendent Neil English says AI should support educators, not replace them.
Read more at triblive.com →
CBSE's Computational Thinking and AI curriculum for Classes 3 to 8 starts in 2026 to 27. A Hindu piece says the early-years design makes sense but asks whether schools have the working computers to teach it.
Read more at The Hindu →
Four US school districts have prioritised student outcomes over worrying about falling enrolment, and more should follow, a report by The 74 concludes, Heartlander News says. It argues states can set a clear model for access to better schools as attendance falls.
Read more at heartlandernews.com →An Education News Kenya opinion piece argues the country should consider lowering teachers' retirement age from 60 to 55, citing the pressures teachers face despite their role in shaping children's futures.
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Delhi will set up first-aid medical rooms in all 1,086 government schools under the Directorate of Education, each with a trained health worker, Careers360 reports. The rooms will also provide for the menstrual health needs of girls.
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Keralam General Education Minister N Samsudheen says the government will meet on 24 November to discuss reducing school bag weight, including changes to how textbooks are printed and distributed. The petition came from students, who know the weight best.
Read more at EdexLive →
Fifty Indian students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds visited UN offices in Geneva and CERN during the second edition of a Switzerland study tour, meeting representatives of international institutions, Education Times reports.
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An NSO survey shows 47% of children aged 6 to 14 walk to school, more so in rural areas, Careers360 reports. Urban families spend Rs 617 on commuting. The RTE Act seeks a primary school within 1 km of habitation.
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More than 3,500 students from 42 schools are expected at Utsav 2026, the CBSE Kochi Sahodaya School Complex arts festival, from Thursday to Saturday at Cochin Refineries School and Global Public School. Director Jude Anthany Joseph will open it.
Read more at The Times of India →The Zonal Education Office in Khag, Budgam, held a Result Declaration Day and distributed Holistic Progress Cards at zonal level for the first time, with Government Girls Middle School, Khag, Roshan Kashmir reports.
Read more at roshankashmir.net →Adilabad collector Rajarshi Shah's Aarogya Pathshala brings health education into schools in Telangana, helping students build healthy habits, Whispers in the Corridors reports. Children's health, he says, is part of education.
Read more at whispersinthecorridors.net →Lend A Hand India's founders and six trainers visited the 48th WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai to study global skills standards and industry-linked practices. The aim is to bring those standards to Indian classrooms.
Read more at Devdiscourse →Student events, teacher webinars and school conferences coming up, each checked against its own page this morning. Permission slips not supplied.
Teacher roles at international schools, checked today. Every listing links to the original page. Deadlines are real, unlike extensions.