Education News in India

Each college to adopt one school: VC Madras University 5/Oct/2010
The University of Madras has called upon affiliated colleges to adopt a school in their neighbourhood with poor infrastructure and facilities and share their resources with it. Speaking at a two-day event to mark World Habitat Day, vice-chancellor G Thiruvasagam said: â€œIf we allow ..
TN to encourage private sector in medical education: Official 5/Oct/2010
Tamil Nadu Government would encourage the private sector to set up medical colleges in the state as there was a huge shortage of doctors, a top Medical Education official said. At present only 35,000 medical graduates passed out of the over 300 medical colleges in the country every year against the ..
Young talent programme in schools 5/Oct/2010
In a bid to give a boost to extracurricular activities in government and government-aided schools in the State, the School Education Department will hold a series of 10 competitions for students. These would be held as part of an initiative titled ‘Young Talent Scheme'. According to a senior ..
PM on same page with the health ministry 4/Oct/2010
The health ministry’s proposed bill for a separate council for medical education has got the nod of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, putting an end to the dispute between the health and the Human Resource and Development (HRD) ministry. The Prime Minister, while addressing the 38th convocation of All ..
Proposal to club BEd with other courses accepted 4/Oct/2010
The proposal to club the BEd course alongwith other graduation courses in science and arts has been given the go-ahead after a vice chancellors’ meet presided by Human Resource and Development Minister (HRD) Kapil Sibal. Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai of the Indira Gandhi National Open ..
Tata Building India School Essay Competition for students 4/Oct/2010
The Tata group has announced the launch of the fifth edition of Tata Building India School Essay Competition for students. It is a national level competition in eight languages which is expected to attract nearly three million students across 150 cities. The theme for this year’s competition is based on reducing ..
London School outsources maths classes to India 4/Oct/2010
Ashmount Primary, a north London school, has outsourced mathematics teaching to India. According to a BBC report, pupils in this institution are improving in this subject. Shortage of mathematics teachers in British schools has for some time presented an opportunity to Indians to teach the ..
IIM-A students study to tackle Naxalism 4/Oct/2010
Naxalism, which has wreaked havoc in various parts of the country in the recent times, may soon get a management perspective solution. A team of five students of the post graduate programme for executives ( PGPX) at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) have taken the initiative to find ..
Frankfinn initiates 4 new air-hostess training courses 4/Oct/2010
Frankfinn Institute of Air Hostess Training has announced the launch of four new "scientifically designed" short-term part-time courses for graduates and 12th pass students. There are two courses on offer for graduates or those in the final year of graduation â€“ Frankfinn ..
New IITs face huge faculty shortage 4/Oct/2010
Even after three years, the seven new IITs that took off, seemed to have hit doldrums, that of being unable to attract adequate faculty. By now each of the new educational institution ought to have had 90 teachers, the number of positions sanctioned by the HRD ministry, but none of them has managed to ..

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