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VC of Central University of Karnataka urges teachers to set creative, imaginative and intellectual question papers to test real knowledge of students. CIIL provides support to train teachers in evaluation and testing in Indian languages. Six-day Workshop-cum-Training Programme to help teachers understand art and science of setting question papers in…

‘It’s been translated into different languages, there’s a version for a cabaret band – and the songs have been covered many times. Björk’s version of Why? is better than mine!’

Vikram Visaji, Dean of School of Humanities and Languages at Central University of Karnataka, believes experiences of all walks of life should be reflected in literature to keep language growing. At an interaction on Satish Chapparike's novel, Ghandruk, in Kalaburagi, Mr. Visaji said it captures the conflict between corporate world's…

Desis for Yes seeks to provide accurate information on the referendum to one of the country’s most influential voting blocs

It is time to evolve ideas to arrest the decline of languages and the world must at least try to find ways and means to preserve some of its endangered languages

The first non-language subjects on the app will boast a similar gamified experience

An exhibition featuring around 150 calligraphy works in different languages is expected to be a big draw. Master calligraphers from abroad and India including Michel D`Anastasio and Achyut Palav, pictorial calligrapher Qamar Dagar, D. Udaya Kumar who designed the Rupee symbol, and Tarun Deep Girdher of National Institute of Design,…

In a moment of distraction from the laborious work of marking an “enormous pile of examination papers”, J.R.R. Tolkien flipped to a blank page on a student essay and scribbled, “in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”.

Reading about West Virginia University’s plan to solve a budgetary shortfall by eliminating the study of foreign languages, it occurred to me the entire purpose of a college education has been turned inside out since my undergraduate days.

West Virginia University plans to eliminate its world languages department but is recommending letting students take some language elective courses as it faces a growing budget shortfall

The Catalan-Valencian formula seems to Òscar Escuder, is a good way to respond to those who want to fragment the language.