The present investigation aims at studying the status of physical education programme in degree colleges in Odisha. A sample of 50 Physical Education Teachers and 300 students of 50 degree colleges affiliated to 5 universities of Odisha participated in the study. The study revealed that six different indoor games were organized in colleges which include badminton, carom, chess, table tennis, tenikoit and yoga. Under outdoor games ten games were organized such as athletic, archery, basket ball, cricket, foot ball, hockey, kabadi, khokho, lawn tennis and volley ball. Five different criteria were followed by the institutes for the organization of Physical education activities such as physical facilities available, interest of the students, availability of time, availability of person to provide instruction and need of the time. Physical Education Teachers and Officers-in-Charge of games and sports organized physical education activities in colleges. Fee for physical education were collected from students. There was provision of incentives for students for their participation in physical education in all the institutions. In almost all the colleges internal evaluation was conducted to know the performance of students in physical education. Students of the colleges participated in physical education activities at different levels such as inter-college level, district levels university level and state level. None of the colleges subscribed any journal of physical education to their institutions.

Teachers are an extremely important facet of any society for a multitude of reasons. Teachers are the people who educate the youth of society who in turn become the leaders of the next generation of people. Teachers are the people who are teaching children and imparting knowledge upon them in their most impressionable years, what these kids learn from their teachers at a young age will most likely stay with them in some facet for the rest of their lives. So, teachers certainly have a significant mark on the development of young children and even older children alike, as they are teaching them and helping them develop their knowledge so that they can go on in life and be responsible and productive members of society. Microteaching is a teacher training technique for learning teaching skills. It employs real teaching situation for developing skills and helps to get deeper knowledge regarding the art of teaching. Microteaching can be practiced with a very small lesson or a single concept and a less number of students. It scales down the complexities of real teaching, as immediate feedback can be sought after each practice session. Knowledge acquisition, skill acquisition, and transfer are the three different phases of microteaching. Describes the various phases of microteaching. Knowledge acquisition phase is the preparatory, pre-active phase, in which the teacher gets trained on the skills and components of teaching through lectures, discussion, illustration, and demonstration of the skill by the experts. In the interactive, skill acquisition phase, the teacher plans a micro-lesson for practicing the demonstrated skills. This paper highlights on microteaching as an efficient technique for learning effective teaching. Key words: Microteaching, an efficient technique, learning, effective teaching & skill. 

 Jammu And Kashmir State is full of beautiful surrounding. The state is famous for its scenic beauty and unique culture. But at the same time the state is surrounded with some inter-national border and the people living in border areas come across with varied socio-cultural as well as academic complexities leading to some adjustment problems. It is generally observed that the people living in the border areas are better prepared to face any problematic situation of life related to adjustment. Various studies conducted on characteristics of people living in border areas have shown that the population living in border area is significantly better in life managing skills and other desirable abilities to enjoy successful life.

 The authors intend to convey the message to the readers through this paper that the students residing in the hostel for their studies, have a very poor economical background, hailing from remote areas/villages. The government through this scheme has taken up a very positive step to improve the condition of these students. The pilot result of the study has been depicted in this research paper.

The present study focussed on studying the variable of truancy in relation to non-verbal intelligence among different groups of high school students. The groups were formed on the basis of gender and place of habitat (urban or rural) of the students. The sample included 640 students taken from twenty schools situated in four districts of Himachal Pradesh. For measuring Non-Verbal Intelligence of the students included in the sample, Standard Progressive Matrices developed by Raven, Court, and Raven (1977) was used in the present study. The results of the study were not uniform in favour of truant or non-truant groups of students and necessitate the replication of the study on a larger sample. 

Throughout history,science has been an important instrument per excellence for development. As a tool in technological advancement and contributing to social and economic growth, science teaching-learning has become an accepted and indispensable aspect of the mainstream of educational systems in developed and developing countries.Globalization has its challenges amongst which conversation of the environment, population explosion, desertification, soil erosion, pollution, HIV/AIDS and increased use of science and technology. It is imperative to strengthen all the instruments of Science, Technology and Mathematics (STM)education especially the curriculum so that may equip learners adequately for survival in age that will be dominated by science and high technology. The close and mutual beneficial trilateral relationship among STM education will equip the learner with functional scientific knowledge for technological development. This issue becomes important once again in resonating with research on STM education as a way forward in the context of globalization. Keywords: Science, Technology, Mathematics, Education, Students, Teachers, Curriculum, Nigeria