Education News in India

Indian students suffer as foreign varsities slash grants 23/Oct/2010
Candidates counting on big ticket scholarships in your favourite foreign university, here is some pensive news. With several universities across the globe desperately trying to cut costs, as they are yet to emerge out of economic turmoil that hit the global financial market after the crash of Lehman ..
Job-oriented diplomas after 10+2 23/Oct/2010
Choosing a Diploma course in India must be little sleazy, as many of them do not provide a prospective career for individuals in the future. In spite of this several individuals have managed to get good jobs after completing a mere diploma. Many claim that they were able to even get fulfilling careers out ..
Students keep alive spirit of debate 23/Oct/2010
Quotable quotes of well-known personalities, statistics, analysis, charisma – the finals of ‘The Bait' debating competition on Friday saw the participating students use all these and much more to drive home their point. The competition, which began on Thursday, was planned and organised by The ..
Financial Literacy Programme to be launched today 23/Oct/2010
A specially-designed Financial Literacy Programme for school students in the State is being launched by the School Education Department on Saturday. On a pilot basis, the VIII class and Plus One students of 182 government-aided schools will be covered in the first phase, according to V.S. Rameswara Murugan, Joint ..
Samacheer Kalvi' textbooks to be finalised by month-end 22/Oct/2010
‘Samacheer Kalvi' school textbooks for all classes, which have to be given for printing, will be finalised by this month-end. Those involved in preparation of textbooks for various subjects up to Class X have been asked to submit the material in CD form by Tuesday in order to quickly take a final ..
Dropout rate in schools is disturbing 22/Oct/2010
Though there are over 500 universities and 27,000 colleges, higher education enrolment ratio in India is only 12 per cent and the nation has a long way to go for catching up with the 50 per cent higher education enrolment ratio of developed nations, said Ved Prakash, Vice-Chairman, University Grants Commission, here on ..
Sibal meets directors of new IITs 22/Oct/2010
Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal met the directors of the eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) to discuss the problems they were facing as regards the functioning of the new institutes. IITs have been started in Ropar (2008), Bhubaneswar (2008), Gandhinagar ..
Vocational courses for school students planned - Sibal 22/Oct/2010
Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday said the central government was planning to set up a national vocational education framework to help school students who fall short of receiving higher education. "We need a national vocational education framework to empower and ..
IGNOU announces admissions for 2011 session 22/Oct/2010
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced admissions for the January 2011 session, a university official said on Wednesday. Aspirants can apply for Master's, Bachelor's, Post-Graduate Diplomas, Diplomas, Post-Graduate Certificates and Certificate programmes. "The ..
NIMHANS now institute of national importance 22/Oct/2010
The National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore was on Wednesday announced as an institute of national importance by the union cabinet, an official statement said here. "The union cabinet today approved the proposal of the ministry of health and family welfare to ..

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