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.

Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 27 : Many Tamil schools do not have basic facilities although the country has been independent for more than 50 years, Malaysia Nanban quoted Selangor state executive councillor Dr Xavier Jayakumar, as saying on Wednesday.

He said some schools were conducting their classes in warehouses and under trees.

He added that in the 1980s and 1990s, many parents were not interested in sending their children to Tamil schools due to the deplorable conditions, which made it unsafe for them.

He said the trend had changed and more Indian parents were eager to send their children to Tamil schools due to the excellent academic performance by students in such schools.

Geneva  - About 75 million children globally, over half of them girls, do not receive education, including one third of primary school age children in sub-Saharan Africa, the UN's education, science and culture agency said Tuesday.

The lack of education and inequalities in schooling systems caused poverty and diminished opportunity, according to UNESCO's Global Monitoring Report which said governments had to take action to make improvements.

In general, children from poor countries are three times less likely to attend primary school than children from rich nations, and the education they do receive will probably be of lower quality.