Education News in India
| Entrance exams to be time-bound 12/31/2011 | ||||
| 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' .. | ||||
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| IAF to select crew for India's 1st manned mission to space 12/31/2011 | ||||
| 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. .. | ||||
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| Kids dont give words special power to mark their worlds 12/31/2011 | ||||
| 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 .. | ||||
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| Faculty shortage in IITs 12/31/2011 | ||||
| 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 .. | ||||
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| Indian-origin scientist Ramakrishnan honoured with knighthood 12/31/2011 | ||||
| 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. .. | ||||
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| Education for special children has a long way to go, finds .. 12/31/2011 | ||||
| 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 .. | ||||
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| Admission process: Engineering aspirants get boost 12/31/2011 | ||||
| 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 .. | ||||
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| Controversy, scams bent the learning curve 12/30/2011 | ||||
| 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 .. | ||||
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| Good science is not possible without freedom of thought: .. 12/30/2011 | ||||
| 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 .. | ||||
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| Panels to monitor SSA 12/30/2011 | ||||
| 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 .. | ||||
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| DU may allow Pak student with poor attendance to take exam 12/30/2011 | ||||
| In a ray of hope for a Pakistani student of Delhi University, his department is considering giving him some leeway in appearing for examination despite his very low attendance record. The undergraduate student of the Department of Germanic and Romance studies had earlier been .. | ||||
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| Direction to issue appointment letters within 6 weeks 12/30/2011 | ||||
| The Madras High Court has directed authorities to issue appointment letters within six weeks to candidates, selected by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission on October seven last, for various Group-II posts. Justice K Suguna issued the directions on a batch of petitions filed .. | ||||
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| Indians in Malaysia urged to safeguard Tamil language 12/30/2011 | ||||
| Ethnic Indians in Malaysia should do more to safeguard Tamil language to hold on to their identities and customs, a senior minister has said. Indian culture and traditions would be lost if nothing was done to safeguard the Tamil language, said A Kohilan Pillayas, the deputy .. | ||||
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| JK govt to suspend principals of zero pass rate schools 12/30/2011 | ||||
| Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has ordered suspension of principals of those government schools in the Valley which have registered zero pass percentage in the recently declared matric examinations result. "At a high-level meeting chaired by the Chief Minister .. | ||||
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| Decks clear for AMU Centre in Bihar 12/30/2011 | ||||
| Decks have been cleared for opening of a Centre of Aligarh Muslim University in Kishanganj district with the Bihar government and AMU Vice Chancellor P K Abdul Ajij signing an agreement for construction of the facility on a plot of 224.02 acre land at Chakla village. Ajij and .. | ||||
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| MP medical admission scam: Guilty students to face action 12/30/2011 | ||||
| In the backdrop of a probe revealing that several medical students in the state had gained admissions by fraudulent means, the Madhya Pradesh government today said all such students would be asked to quit their courses. A government probe committee headed by the State Joint .. | ||||
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| TN to recruit 7,000 teachers for govt schools- 12/30/2011 | ||||
| With a view to ensure the 1:40 teacher-student ratio in government-run schools in the state, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa yesterday directed creating about 7,000 new additional teacher vacancies. The Chief Minister has directed creating a total of 6,872 graduate .. | ||||
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| State common board to examine Samacheer kalvi syllabus 12/29/2011 | ||||
| With an idea to get students' response to the newly introduced Samacheer kalvi syllabus, the state common board of school educaion is all set to take a closer look as soon as the schools reopen in January. Feedback on students' performance, along with teachers inputs would help .. | ||||
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| Rs 151 crore sanctioned for DD Upadhyay College building 12/28/2011 | ||||
| Delhi Government sanctioned Rs 151 crore for construction of a permanent building of Deen Dayal Upadhyay College in Dwarka in West Delhi. A cabinet meeting presided by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit cleared the project which will be completed in 30 months. The campus will .. | ||||
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| Balaji Telefilms to sell education, mobile content biz for Rs 8... 12/30/2011 | ||||
| Production house Balaji Telefilms on Friday said it has signed a pact to sell its media education and mobile content businesses for Rs 8.37 crore. It, however, did not disclose the buyer. Balaji Telefilms has entered into binding business transfer agreements on December 29, to .. | ||||
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