Education News in India

Indian students rank 2nd last in global test 15/Jan/2012
Across the world, India is seen as an education powerhouse - based largely on the reputation of a few islands of academic excellence such as the IITs. But scratch the glossy surface of our education system and the picture turns seriously bleak. Fifteen-year-old Indians who were put, for the first time, on ..
Finger On The Pulse 17/Jan/2012
HANSA, a market research company has launched the USA IT outsourcing MarketPulseTM, a study to gauge market perceptions of Indian IT companies. The study with a wide sample of 1,200 respondents will provide IT companies with the key insights needed to adapt and prosper in a changing marketplace. This ..
A Memorable Meeting 17/Jan/2012
The ninth annual alumni meet of IIT Kharagpur was organised at the Kharagpur campus recently. The institute honoured six of its alumni with Distinguished Service Award and among the recipients was Jaideep Sarkar (IFS), the private secretary to the prime minister; Yatinder Pal Suri, country head of Finnish Group ..
Kids make collage of ideas on canvas 16/Jan/2012
Mornings at the Sir J J Institute of Applied Arts are quiet affairs. But Saturday was different. About 3,000 children, brushes and palettes in hand, descended upon the institute’s lawns from all over the city to take part in a cartoon contest organised by the Times of India as part of its Mumbai for Kids ..
No notification yet on engineering examination 16/Jan/2012
Even as a decision taken in Mumbai University’s academic council scrapped the policy that made it mandatory for all engineering students to clear their BE course in eight years, the university is yet to pass a notification to that effect. Several students who missed their exams in November-December last year after ..
Memorable Signing 16/Jan/2012
IIMK plans to rapidly accelerate its international activities through selectively establishing partnerships with greater number of institutions in different parts of the world. As a direct consequence of this process, IIMK is entering into a collaborative agreement with Abu Dhabi University (ADU), Abu ..
Alarming decline in reading and mathematical skills in 6-14 age group, .. 18/Jan/2012
Less than a third of class III students in rural Indian schools can solve simple two-digit subtraction problems, the prestigious Annual Status of Education Report produced by a coalition of non-governmental organisations has found. The 2011 ASER has also shown an alarming decline in mathematics skills, ..
An enabling tool 18/Jan/2012
Visually impaired persons pursuing higher education will now be able to browse for books online in their mother tongues. Though there was no dearth of resources in English available online for the blind, this is the first time that an attempt has been made to provide the material in multiple Indian languages, says Mr ..
Universities gear up for elections 18/Jan/2012
It's in the air once again. There is anticipation and excitement, some butterflies too but an overall optimism prevails. Jawaharlal Nehru University students are gearing up to hold their students' union elections after a gap of more than three years, during which elections had stood banned. Student ..
Teachers have to balance demands from various quarters: Howard Gardner 18/Jan/2012
After challenging certain conventional notions of education with his ‘Theory of Multiple Intelligences', renowned developmental psychologist Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been involved in areas such as design of ..

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