Education News in India Apr 2011

More Colleges Accept GRE 30/Apr/2011
In an announcement on April 28, Educational Testing Service (ETS) said that the GRE® General Test is now accepted by more than 500 business schools worldwide for their MBA programmes. In the last four years, the number of business schools accepting the GRE General Test for MBA admissions has quadrupled. <br ..
State will monitor schools to curb arbitrary fee hikes 29/Apr/2011
From this year, schools will not be able to impose exorbitant fee hikes on helpless parents. The state government on Wednesday directed education officials to strictly implement the Capitation Fee Act till it comes up with a law to curb ‘arbitrary’ fee hikes by schools. School education ..
More medical than engineering aspirants this year 29/Apr/2011
For years, a degree in engineering has been considered a motor for success. Medicine, for the punishing length of the course, has had to swallow the bitter pill, for most it was the second choice. This time around though, medicine has contributed more to the growth in the number of aspirants taking the state’s ..
Premji pledges Rs 10, 000 crore for schools project 28/Apr/2011
Wipro’s Azim Premji is set to give some competition to two of the world’s richest and most active philanthropists – Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. The Azim Premji Foundation will spend Rs 10,000 crore for setting up schools and educational institutes across the country, the foundation’s CEO, ..
Get domicile certificates in schools from May 1 28/Apr/2011
Students will no longer have to queue up outside the tehsil office for a domicile or caste certificate. The revenue department will coordinate directly with schools and ensure that all standard IX students fill their forms and obtain the certificates in school itself. The certificates are necessary during ..
Freedom from bonds for 2000 MBBS students 28/Apr/2011
The Medical Education Department is set to grant hundreds of MBBS students their long-standing wish - scrap the Rs 10 lakh bond they are required to sign when they opt out of year-long field postings after graduating. And this, say sources, is primarily because the government does not have enough field openings to ..
State ready with bill to curb bogus varsities 28/Apr/2011
Bogus or unauthorised educational institutions which take students for a ride under the pretext of offering technical and professional courses will have to pull down the shutters. The state government is ready with a bill to curb unauthorised institutions. An ordinance will be issued within a fortnight once the state ..
Delhi has over 50,000 street children: study 29/Apr/2011
The National capital is home to over 50,000 street children – constituting 0.4 per cent of Delhi’s population and one per cent of the total number of children here– a latest study has claimed. North Delhi has the highest concentration of street children at 10,091 of a total figure of 50,923 ..
More confusion in PG medical and diploma counselling 29/Apr/2011
The last-minute change in the counselling procedure for medical PG degree and diploma admissions not only led to delay by three days in beginning the process, but it also forced the authorities to revise their earlier schedules causing a lot of inconvenience to the rank holders. The counselling began two ..
National finance corporation for education loans likely 29/Apr/2011
The Union Ministry for Human Resource Development is considering setting up National Education Finance Corporation (NEFC) for improving access to education loans. The NEFC will refinance student education loans and offer institutional loans at concessional rates with longer repayment tenure, Union ..

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