Education News in India

School directed to admit a hearing impaired child as per RTE act by .. 27/Feb/2013
The Gauhati High Court has directed school authorities, who had denied admission to a hearing impaired child, to admit the child as a part of the child's Right to Education. The child was denied admission by Don Bosco School in Silapathar of Assam's Dhemaji district in 2011 following which his father, ..
Texting and smsing for long could lead to postural pain 27/Feb/2013
Too much texting and tilting your head down while looking at mobile devices may give some people a 'text neck', experts warn. Chris Cornett, orthopaedic surgeon and spine specialist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation said, "People get so ..
India becomes the worlds first country to launch a smartphone into space 27/Feb/2013
India has become the world's first country to launch a smartphone into space loaded with a number of experimental 'Apps', some serious and some just for fun. The British built Strand-1 spacecraft, developed by scientists in Surrey, was sent into orbit from Sriharikota in India to test the capabilities of ..
Henkel Innovation Challenge-6 throws up some innovative ideas 26/Feb/2013
Faced with the prospect of pitching a product on a platform shared by contestants from the postgraduate IIMs and IITs, enterprising second and third year engineering students Aditya Yadav and Harsh Vardhan Pande decide to play to their strengths and focus on strengthening specifications of the product. And a product of ..
80% of our teacher educators are far removed from the global approaches .. 27/Feb/2013
If over 99% failure percentage at the recently declared Central Teachers Eligibility Test 2012 results is any indication of the quality of pool of teachers in waiting, now a study on teachers' education showed how 80% of our teacher educators are not only far removed from the global approaches and methodologies, but ..
About two-third of all gram panchayats in Bihar do not have secondary .. 27/Feb/2013
In an indication of shortage of academic infrastructure in Bihar, about two-third of all gram panchayats did not have secondary schools, a minister admitted on Tuesday. Out of 8463 gram panchayats, 5500 of them did not have secondary schools, the education minister P.K Shahi said in the assembly in reply ..
Students take recourse to Guide books during exams rather than text books 27/Feb/2013
Examination time is probably the only period of the year when the university students turn pages of books. With just few days left for the examinations to start, guide books are registering brisk sale. The students have no time to go through textbooks. They prefer guide books to study the entire syllabus. ..
ASER 2012 (rural) a revelation of the sorry state of affairs of education .. 27/Feb/2013
In what seems to be a revelation of the sorry state of affairs of education in Assam, the Annual Status of Education Report-ASER 2012 (rural) was released here on Tuesday. As per the survey, as against the national average of 96.5 per cent, merely 95.6 per cent children in the state in the age group of ..
States grossly underutilising funds despite demand for increased .. 27/Feb/2013
Several surveys have shown a decline in the standards of school education across the country; now it turns out many states, including Tamil Nadu, have been grossly underutilising funds despite a demand for increasing allocation for education to 6% of GDP. The recent report by the Centre for Policy ..
CIIE launches a premier program for technology startups 26/Feb/2013
The Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), the business incubator located at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has launched a premier program for technology startups. CIIE has joined hands with Village Capital to launch an acceleration program for ..

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