Melbourne, Sept 18 : A new survey has found that over 40 percent of law students suffer from depression, with little improvement in sight when they become barristers and solicitors.

According to the study, almost a third of solicitors and one-in-five barristers suffer psychological distress associated with disability.

Professor Ian Hickie, from the Brain and Mind Research Institute in New South Wales (NSW), said that the survey of 738 students, 924 solicitors and 751 barristers supported earlier findings that consistently ranked lawyers first in surveys of depression.

Ahmedabad, Sep. 18 : Gujarat Higher Secondary Education Board has decided to introduce ''open book examinations'' system for standard VIII to X students, enabling them to refer the books while taking exams.

The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB), which is half way into this academic session (2008 to 09), has decided to introduce the Open Book format of examination for the VIII, IX and X standard classes.

New Delhi, Sept 18 : The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today gave its approval for initiation of the new Programme “Scholarship for higher Education (SHE)” a component of “Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE)” at a total cost of Rs. 820 crores including Rs. 20 crores as implementation cost during the 11th Plan period.

It will strengthen the innovation infrastructure of the country by promoting human resource development.

Sydney, Sept 18: In an attempt to stop “helicopter parents” from hovering over schools and stalking teachers, some of the US educational institutes are asking the guardians to sign behavioural contracts.

Gene Batiste, from the US National Association of Independent Schools in Washington, DC, who was present in Sydney for the opening of a leadership centre for the Association of Independent Schools of New South Wales, said that parents were taking on adversarial roles with teachers and school administrators.

"Helicopter parents is the growing issue of parents hovering over schools," he said. "They are just around too much,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Batiste, as saying.

London, Sept 17 : Searching simple words like ‘Chinese’ or ‘restaurant’ in the dictionary can be a cumbersome task for Britons, all thanks to their ‘lack’ of knowledge of spellings.

According to the Yellow Pages online service Yell. com, almost 12 per cent of people in UK fail to pronounce ‘restaurant’ correctly, and go for weird variations like ‘restauraunt’, ‘restauraunts’, ‘restaurent’, reports Telegraph.

And a massive 10 per cent of users type ''Chineese'' or ''Chinise'' in the search engine, when they want to look for Chinese.

Hungry People entered almost 23 variations of the word when they wanted to look for somewhere to eat.

ew Delhi, Sept. 16 : Emerging powers like India and China are the central feature of our times and the United States no longer can act on global issues on its own.

Saying this, Philip Gordon, Senior Fellow, US Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution, added that the United States needs to engage with rising powers since increasingly, New Delhi and Beijing’s global views have become important.

He was speaking at the session on ''The Geopolitics of Emerging Global Powers'' organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Aspen Institute India here today.