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The Xth and XIIth students studying in the CBSE(Central board of secondary education) will be starting their final exams from March 1st. CBSE regional officer K K Choudhury said, "The preparation for the examinations has already started. The question papers have already been dispatched from Delhi to the different centres. There are around 285 c more...

NEW DELHI: The Union Service Public Commission (UPSC) will conduct the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2012 on May 20, 2012. The examination will be held at various centres across the country. Candidates can apply online using the UPSC website. The last date for filling up the application form is March 5, 2012 till 11.59 pm post which more...

The three IIMs (The Indian Institute of Management--Bangalore,Ahmedabad and Calcutta have again topped the country's B-schools. They are also in the tip ten Asia-Pacific region. IIM Ahmedabad is ranked second, IIM-Bangalore fifth and IIM Calcutta is reanked eigth. Indian School of Business has been ranked seventh, SP Jain Management and Res more...

Model question paper for 10th and 12th students The Education board of Tamilnadu ha posted the model question paper for the 10th and 12th standard , who will be writing the public exam in March. This will be the first year the students will be writing the exam based on the newly introduced Samacheer Syllabus. After the request from the pare more...

Paramedical courses are becoming popular due to high demand in rural developments. Diploma in medical laboratory technology is becoming important education today. There is lot of expectation for this course. Even in small villages and towns the medical facilities are started developing and there is a high demand for medical research centers more...

It's been a journey of hope for Jyotsana Thirupati and Bhargavi Savarala Lokeshwari. The two 13-year-old girls from an under-privileged background and studying in a rural school have made it to the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) at Pennsylvania, USA next May. Their work was chosen from among 1,000 independent research done more...

Adam Grotsky, executive director, USIEF, the Fulbright Commision in India, speaks to Gauri Rane Shetty about opportunities the US continues to open even as the education climate undergoes a change. The United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), in collaboration with the Institute of International Education (IIE), a not-for-profit o more...

The Indian Business School, Hyderabad, announced its accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), US. ISB is the first business school in India to be accredited by the AACSB. With this accreditation, ISB now joins the exclusive league of 643 institutions in the world, including Harvard, Wharton and Yale in more...

Bharathidasan Institute of Management (School of Excellence of Bharathidasan University). Applications are invited for the two year full time residential MBA programme with specialisations offered in Marketing, Finance, Systems, Human Resourses and Operations Management. BIM's Online Registration commences on 1st Dec'2011. For Further more...

US has always been favourite destination for students. Mr.Anand Krishna , information officer, public affairs section, US consulate in Chennai, reassured students in Bangalore:"The US consulate in Chennai issues more temporary work visas than any other consulate in the world. Even when the US was recovering from the recession, the number of wo more...

The Joint Entrance Examination 2012 for IMU will be conducted by the IIT on 8.4.2012. The courses start in August 2012. For further details, Web site: www.imu.tn.nic.in Email: [email protected] Phone no.: 022--27706804,022-- 27701935/3876 Ext (201) Last date for receiving application forms(Off-line or printed copy of ON-line more...

18yr old Rachit Parasrampuria of Kolkata La Martiniere school has scored full marks in SAT. He has scored 2400 out of 2400 in the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).. In ICSE he has scored 96%. He says, " I was plain lucky. If you make me take the exam once again, the score can be a little less also. Scoring full marks is a matter of luck. more...

The Karnataka Private Medical and Dental Colleges Association has announced that the entrance exam will be held on May 6 , 2012. The test will be held for undergraduate medical and engineering courses.Online applications will be available from March 10, 2012. Further updates will be hosted on the Comed-K website from Feb 15,2012. The exam will h more...

OU (Osmania University) Hyderabad, is thinking to conduct its annual examinations online starting next year to check the incidence of copying among students. Presently it is pen and paper mode test. The present model has descriptive questions but next year the exam will be based on objective type questions. The students will be given a user id more...

The law schools have cancelled the web counselling for this year's CLAT (common law admission test). The National Law Universtiy, Jodhpur , which is the organizing university this time for the test has decided to cancel the we counselling. Instead the students have to give the preferences of their colleges in the application forms at the time o more...

Off late, one sees a mushrooming of new-age schools around the country. International schools, IB curriculum and ultra-modrn teaching methods are often advertised, along with promises to turn your child into the next Einstein, Mozart or Tendulkar. those who can afford such schools, enroll their kids there. Other parents face anxiety whether the more...

BANGALORE : Interest in research in India has been on the wane in the past few decades despite outstanding overall economic growth. In the 1980s, India was among the top 10 countries in the world producing original research, slipping to no. 12 in the 1990s. And in the first decade of the new millennium, its position further slipped, alarmingly, more...

BANGALORE: The arts-science team from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore has for the second time won the best human practice award at the International Genetically Engineered Machines (IGEM) competition at MIT, Boston. The school had earlier registered an international regional win in Hong Kong. At IGEM, undergraduate team more...

BANGALORE : Queen's University, Belfast, launched Dr APJ Abdul Kalam scholarships for Indian engineering and science students worth up to $4,00,000. The scheme is open to 100 Indian students who wish to enrol in post-graduate engineering and science programmes at Queen's University in 2012. Each successful recipient will be entitled to $4,000 sch more...