Education

Free vocational training for the poor from Unnati.

The best of corporate brains from Bangalore battled it out for top honours at the immensely popular Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz in the city.

Many of Bangalore’s schools now offer national and international boards of education in addition to the state board, with innovation around the curricula. How do parents and students choose?

Version One dot Oh, an amateur theatre group is all set to stage the Vijay Tendulkar classic ‘Silence! The Court is in Session’ this weekend.

Residents at Sudarshan Layout took the initiative to setup a community computer centre, with the help of volunteers from AID and Stree Jagrithi Samithi.

A government school operates out of a car shed, as authorities demolished its building in a road widening drive. A year later, the road is neither widened nor is the school relocated to another premises.

NGOs and corporate foundations in the city have adopted government schools to help improve their quality of education. Children at these schools are benefiting.

Two new badminton courts, including one dedicated for coaching recently opened at the Mahila Seva Samaja School Campus on K R road in Basavanagudi. Prakash Padukone inaugurated the facility.

Balaji Kutty shares his experience of working with government school students who battle again great odds to progress in life.