Education News in India

5 member school team climb 19,688-ft high Mt Tibba peak 20/Jun/2013
A five-member team of a school here has scaled 19,688-ft high Mt Tibba peak in Himachal Pradesh. The students of Bishop Cotton School scaled the peak on June 11, a school spokesman said here. The expedition commenced on June 3, he said adding the team had set ..
BAI launches the Indian Badminton League School Programme 18/Jun/2013
For students in Mumbai, monsoon points to reopening of schools, new books, new teachers and beginning of another academic year. However, this year, students in the city are getting an opportunity to welcome the academic session in a different way. The Badminton Association of India (BAI), in an effort to promote ..
Students appearing for supplementary exams can obtain their hall ticket on .. 19/Jun/2013
Both, students appearing through school and private for supplementary exams can obtain their hall ticket on June 21 and June 22, according to official sources. Hall tickets can be obtained from the hall ticket-issuing centres that are mentioned by the Regional Director, Govt. Exams. ..
Oxford English Dictionary breaks its rule to include tweet in their .. 18/Jun/2013
The word 'tweet' in the sense of social networking has entered the hallowed pages of the Oxford English Dictionary with the lexicon breaking its rule that a new word needed to be in use for ten years before inclusion. John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary, said, "The noun and ..
Indian students selected to participate in an innovative global internship .. 18/Jun/2013
A group of 14 students, including two from India's O P Jindal University, have been selected to participate in an innovative global internship programme on human rights and governance in Europe. The students from various universities, including Oxford University, Harvard University and O P ..
Smart phones user base of students higher in smaller cities than .. 18/Jun/2013
About 70 per cent students own smart phones with a larger user base in smaller cities than the metropolitan cities, according to a survey by software services firm TCS. Nearly six out of 10 post-millennial respondents own a smart phone, but what is remarkable is that the difference in ..
University of Madras on a massive recruitment drive to fill in 150 faculty .. 19/Jun/2013
The University of Madras will begin a massive recruitment drive to fill in nearly 150 faculty posts, including that of 91 assistant professors and 50 associate professors from the first week of July. University officials said recruitment on such a scale is taking place after more than a decade. The last ..
SC order causes confusion over regulatory powers between UGC and AICTE 19/Jun/2013
A tug of war is on between the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) over the Supreme Court order that approval of AICTE is not required to obtain permission and run MBA courses by private institutions since it does not fall under the definition of technical ..
Himachal HC upholds the government decision to close down 8 degree .. 19/Jun/2013
The Himachal Pradesh high court has upheld the government's decision to close down eight government degree colleges that had reportedly been opened in haste, without proper infrastructure and budgetary provisions, by the outgoing government last year, and dismissed a bunch of petitions challenging the new government's ..
Uniform procedure for the recruitment of lecturers/professors in all the .. 19/Jun/2013
The state government is considering bringing about a uniform procedure for the recruitment of lecturers/professors in all the universities in the state, said minister for higher education RV Deshpande here on Tuesday. He said the move is to limit the discretion of the interview committee members and allow ..

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