New Delhi, Aug 25 : Fifteen of Canada’s elite universities are in India to hold information sessions on Canada as a destination for higher education.

The delegation is led by Michelle Beaton of Ryerson University, Toronto, and assisted by Ginette Sanfaçon of McGill University. The delegation will be in India from August 18-28.

The sessions are being organized by the Canadian Higher Education Committee under the aegis of Council of International Schools (CIS) and have been held in Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune and Delhi. It is Council’s fourth consecutive tour to India.

London, Aug 23 : Teachers in Britain are under so much stress that they are turning to binge eating to cope with it, says a new survey.

In the survey by the Stroke Association, nearly half of the teachers admit they turn to comfort eating to cope with the stress.

It found that 47 per cent of teachers admitted they lost sleep when stressed, while 45 per cent said they turned to comfort eating to deal with it.

About 42 per cent said they cried, 37 per cent admitted they became angry, 29 per cent said they turned to drink and 16 per cent admitted to turn to smoking to cope.

Only 13 per cent said they took exercise to deal with stress and two per cent said they turned to drugs.

London, Aug. 23: Some of Britain’s leading universities are reported to be favouring less-qualified students from poorer backgrounds.

An investigation by The Daily Telegraph reveals five out of 20 elite institutions in the UK make lower grade offers to sixth-formers from poor-performing schools and deprived homes.

The London School of Economics, Bristol, Nottingham, Newcastle, and Edinburgh all allow staff to choose students with worse grades.

Overall, almost two-thirds of the elite Russell Group - which represents research-intensive universities - attach weighting to candidates' schools, home postcodes and whether family members also attended university as a tiebreaker during the application process.

Kuala Lumpur, Aug 22: Over the past almost one year, incidents of school teachers physically abusing students of Indian origin have been on the rise in Malaysia, and in some instances, teachers even called the Indian students by derogatory names.

The school teachers have reportedly acquired the ‘hate-Indian students’ attitude after the transfer of a school teacher from a secondary school in Banting, who is now facing an inquiry after she admitted to leveling racial slurs against Indian students.

Several parents of such children here have lodged police reports since November last year alleging that as many as five school teachers had physically and verbally abused Indian students.

New Delghi, Aug. 21 : Suggesting an integrated approach to improve India''s higher education standards, the Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Professor Samir Brahmachari, said the country urgently req1uired a research university.

Speaking at a panel discussion on "India''s Leadership in Manufacturing: Role of Engineering Education" at Observer Research Foundation today, Professor Brahmachari stressed the need for quality education, citing the instances of unemployability of many engineering graduates when there is also a demand for good engineers.

Professor V. S. Ramamurthy, the Chairman of Board of Directors of IIT, Delhi, underlined the need for creating enough market for post graduates and PhD holders.

Washington, Aug 20: Using calculators in the classroom does not hinder learning of multiplication, as long as children have a basic grasp of the skills first, suggests a group of researchers.

The study, conducted by Bethany Rittle-Johnson and colleague Alexander Kmicikewycz, will be published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Calculators are useful tools in elementary mathematics classes, if students already have some basic skills, new research has found. The findings shed light on the debate about whether and when calculators should be used in the classroom.