Education News in India

University to gain from PURSE 24/Oct/2011
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, is one among the 30 universities in India selected by the Department of Science and Technology for funding under the DST-PURSE programme. Under it, the university will receive Rs.9 crore for development of research infrastructure. The university has been placed eighth ..
Reforms debate yet to reach closure 24/Oct/2011
The countdown to admissions to engineering courses in 2012 will soon begin amid apprehensions over whether the State government will continue the ongoing reforms in the admission process implemented this year, such a giving equal weight to the marks scored in the qualifying examination and the score in the entrance ..
The dropouts' story 24/Oct/2011
Forget research and Ph.Ds. In Karnataka, only 12.2 per cent of those who have completed pre-university/12th Standard join college. These astounding facts have been made available in a study conducted by the Karnataka Knowledge Commission on ‘The gross enrolment ratio in higher education in Karnataka'. <br ..
UGC grant to KU for literature research 24/Oct/2011
The Department of English, Kakatiya University, has recently been sanctioned Rs.32.5 lakh for five years under the Special Assistance Programme of UGC to carry out collective research in the area titled “Multiculturalism in Indian Literatures in English” with three thrust areas: a) Women's Writing and ..
Indo-Global Education Summit in November 24/Oct/2011
The third Indo-Global Educational Summit will be held in November in three cities wherein more than 200 foreign universities and more than 1,000 Indian institutions will participate. The summit being organised by Indus Foundation will be held at New Delhi (Nov. 4 and5), Bangalore (Nov. 8 and 9) and Mumbai ..
SNAP-2011 to be conducted on December 18 24/Oct/2011
The Symbiosis National Aptitude (SNAP) Test is a common and mandatory written test for the admission to all the Post-Graduate Institutes of Symbiosis International University. SIU runs 17 Post Graduate programs in streams ranging from Healthcare, Media, Computer Science, Business Management, to Telecom ..
AP govt providing employment to state youth 24/Oct/2011
In a bid to train and provide employment to youths by the year-end as part of Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu Programme, Andhra Pradesh Municipal Administration and Urban Development department today entered into an MoU. The organisations with whom the MoU was signed are SETWIN (a Government of Andhra Pradesh ..
Kalam stresses importance of nurturing literature 24/Oct/2011
Former President A P J Abdul Kalam today stressed the importance of books and nurturing of literature in the greater interest of acquiring knowledge and development. Delivering the Pandit Tirthanath Centenary Memorial Lecture, organised by the premier literary organisation Asam Sahitya Sabha, he said ..
Tiny planet has water ice, may have atmosphere too: Scientists 23/Oct/2011
Astronomers have discovered a mysterious little dwarf planet which they believe is covered in ice and may sport the wispy remnants of an atmosphere. The planet, nicknamed "Snow White", lies outside Neptune and is orbiting the sun as part of the Kuiper belt the ring of icy bodies that orbit ..
Partners have 20 per cent chance to contract HPV virus: Study 23/Oct/2011
If a person is infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), there's a 20 per cent chance that his or her partner will pick up the virus within six months, a new study has found. The study, the largest-yet analysis of HPV transmission cases and published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, found no ..

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