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Just 29 per cent of those taking part in the survey for Ipsos Mori had a favourable view of the prime minister - down a whopping 12 points since July and the lowest score Mr Johnson has recorded since his landslide general election victory in December, putting him behind ...

New Delhi: Over 17 lakh candidates have already downloaded their admit cards for JEE and NEET, and this shows that the students want the exams to be conducted at any cost, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ said on Thursday. The minister’s comments come against the backdrop of a growing ...

MiltabtPulwama: Aadil Rashid Bhat of Charsoo-Batpora village of Awantipora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district who recently announced that he has joined militant ranks, Wednesday qualified the Bachelors of Unani Medicine and Surgery (BUMS) with distinction. Aadil has secured over 80 per cent marks in 3rd semester of BUMS, the ...

Boris Johnson has been accused of “shamefully” trying to dodge blame for this summer’s exam chaos after he told schoolchildren that a “mutant algorithm” was to blame. In an address to pupils at a Leicestershire secondary, broadcast live on social media, the prime minister acknowledged that the botched announcement ...

Education secretary Gavin Williamson has raised the prospect of disruption to next year’s school exams due to Covid-19, saying the government was preparing “fallback measures” to determine results in the case students are unable to sit papers in the normal way. Mr Williamson said the measures would be “different ...

The head of England's exams regulator Ofqual has resigned in the wake of this summer’s A-level and GCSE results fiasco, the organisation has announced. Sally Collier’s departure came as prime minister Boris Johnson admitted that the government “might have done some things differently” on school qualifications in a year ...

Srinagar: Environmental activist from Sweden, Greta Thunberg on Tuesday advocated postponement of NEET and JEE exams 2020 in view of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic.“It’s deeply unfair that students of India are asked to sit national exams during the COVID-19 pandemic and while millions have also been impacted by the ...

The Prime Minister is “sorry for any distress” caused by his government’s handling of exam results this year, Downing Street has said. Boris Johnson initially defended the A-level results produced by a controversial algorithm, saying “they’re robust, they’re good, they're dependable for employers”. But he defied calls to return ...

New Delhi, Aug 21 Government sources have issued a statement explaining why conducting exams is an important process and are unlikely to postpone JEE and NEET. They said that the exams would be conducted keeping all pandemic norms and maintaining social distancing norms.With regards to a request for centre ...

Last Monday, Sunaina, who's in her final year for the Master of Arts programme in Social Sciences at the University of Delhi, was sitting in front of her computer to appear for her online exam. The question paper for the exam was supposed to be uploaded on the university's ...