With the aim to attract students towards science by the next few years, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has made announcement about the launching of ‘INSPIRE’ (Innovation In Science Pursuit for Inspired Research), a scholarship programme of the Department of Science & Technology in New Delhi. 

London, Dec 13: Increased usage of "text message speak" and street slang in essays has left UK teachers baffled, according to a study.

The study found that four-in-10 teachers couldn’t understand some pupils'' writing as it was laden with obscure language.

It was revealed that phrases like "innit" and Gr8 have become a regular sight in schoolwork.

In fact, one teacher actually claimed that how an essay contained the sentence "i noe u dnt noee mii, i donno huu u r" - I know you do not know me, I do not know who you are.

There was another student who wrote "ma m8s wnt ova" - my mates went over.

Washington, Dec 10 : For most students, thinking about the next day''s math exam makes them so anxious that they face difficulties while solving arithmetic problems. Now, a new study has explored why the stress related to the ''dreaded'' subject leads to poor performance in tests.

The study has been conducted by University of Chicago psychologist Sian L. Beilock and her colleagues.

Much Beilock''s her work suggests that working memory is a key component of math anxiety. Working memory (also known as short term memory), helps to maintain a limited amount of information at one time, just what is necessary to solve the problem at hand.

The Adnani Group has announced the launch of the Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management (AIIM) at Navrangpura in Ahmedabad. The institute takes off its academic activities with a one-year (fulltime) residential Post Graduate Programme in Infrastructure Development (PGPIM) for executives.

London, December 6 : An American study has shown that the brains of kids belonging to low-income families process information differently to those of children from wealthier homes.

Conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, the study involved 26 children in the age group of nine to ten years. Half of them were from low-income homes, while half from high-income families.

The researchers used an electroencephalograph (EEG) to measure activity in the "prefrontal cortex" of the children’s brains.

During the test, the children were shown an image onto a screen. They had not been briefed about the picture.

The researchers measured the subjects’ brain responses as they saw the picture.

IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) has informed that it intends to build 650 examination centres across the country, including 15 in various jails, for its ensuing 'term-end examination' commencing December1.

"More than 2.73 lakh candidates will appear for the examinations," IGNOU spokesperson Ravi Mohan said.

According to the sources, IGNOU has also established 15 examination centres in jails for inmates who have enrolled to its various undergraduate courses.