Education News in India 2011

Entrance exams to be time-bound 31/Dec/2011
The state government will take steps to make the entrance examinations more time bound. The results would be announced faster this year and earlier than other states, said Mr P.K. Abdu Rabb, the minister for education here on Saturday. The minister was inaugurating STEP (Students' Training for Expanding ..
IAF to select crew for India's 1st manned mission to space 31/Dec/2011
Joining the project for country's first indigenous manned mission to space, Indian Air Force(IAF) has signed an MoU with the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO). And is now planning to set up facilities for selecting the crew for the maiden flight. Director General of Army ..
Kids dont give words special power to mark their worlds 31/Dec/2011
A new study has dispelled the myth that young children use language just as adults do to help classify and understand objects in the world around them. In the study, involving four to five-year-old children, researchers at Ohio State University found the labels adults use to classify items words like ..
Faculty shortage in IITs 31/Dec/2011
Despite, IITs being premier educational institutions of India are suffering from faculty shortage for several months without being filled. Usually, IITs in India, generate students with capabilities to glitter worldwide. Shocking news revealed by Central human resource ministry that 35 ..
Indian-origin scientist Ramakrishnan honoured with knighthood 31/Dec/2011
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, India-born US citizen whose pioneering work in molecular biology won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has been honoured with a knighthood by the royal establishment here in a rare recognition of achievements by foreigners based in Britain. 58-year-old ..
Education for special children has a long way to go, finds survey 31/Dec/2011
There are 53,557 children with disabilities of various kinds enrolled in Goa schools. But Goa has a long way to go when it comes to providing inclusive education to physically and mentally challenged children. As per the survey for 2009-10 carried out by the Union human resource development ministry ..
Admission process: Engineering aspirants get boost 31/Dec/2011
The human resource development ministry will consider marks obtained in plus-II board examination with common entrance examination scores for admission to engineering courses from academic year 2013. Science and technology secretary T. Ramasami told DC on Friday multiple entrance exams neither helped ..
Controversy, scams bent the learning curve 30/Dec/2011
Delhi University saw a new high in June 2011 - Shri Ram College of Commerce declared a 100% cutoff for non-commerce students seeking admission to BCom (H). The cut-off for commerce students was 96%, and at the end of the first day, only 25 of 314 seats remained in the general category. The college never issued a second ..
Good science is not possible without freedom of thought: Ramakrishnan 30/Dec/2011
The idea of favouring experiment and observation over belief, and the empirical over the anecdotal, which was at the core of the evolution of modern science, continues to be its most important guiding principle, Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has said. The Joint Head of the Structural Studies ..
Panels to monitor SSA 30/Dec/2011
All government and aided schools in the State should soon constitute a School Management Committee that would plan, monitor and implement Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) schemes as per the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009. A Government Order to this effect, which was issued ..

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