Education News in India

How job-ready are you? 10/Oct/2011
A lot has been said about the lack of skilled workforce in India. Compared to countries such as Germany and Japan where 75 per cent of the total workforce is skilled, and the 85 per cent skilled workforce in South-East Asia, a meagre five per cent of India's total workforce can be called skilled. In this ..
How good are you at making your point? 10/Oct/2011
For Shreyans Mehta, a class XI student of Velammal International School in Chennai, interacting with his hostel mates over the last few months on what he actually felt about the anti-corruption movement was always a challenge. “Every time I told them there could be a better way to make the ..
Australian state to push for reforms in education market 10/Oct/2011
Australian state of Victoria is all set to push for easing visa restrictions to boost its USD 5.8 billion international education market, particularly vocational sector which has been recording severe drop in enrollments. According to 'The Age' newspaper report, Premiere of Victoria Ted Baillieu has ..
PSLV-C18 set to take off on Oct 12 10/Oct/2011
The Indo-French climate monitoring satellite Megha-Tropiques and three other nano satellites on board PSLV-C18 are all set for launch on October 12 from the spaceport of Sriharikota, the ISRO said. "The countdown for the launch started at 9 AM today. The countdown will be for 50 hours. All the ..
INSPIRE expo energises students 10/Oct/2011
Prospective young scientists at the district leg of the national level INSPIRE awards exhibition here on Saturday attempted to find creative scientific solutions for contemporary issues like spiralling fuel prices, depleting energy sources and restriction of subsidised LPG cylinders. Electricity extracted from water ..
Fate of AMU centre in Bihar hangs in balance 9/Oct/2011
Fate of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) centre at Kishanganj hangs in balance with Bihar government allegedly failing to provide a single plot of 250 acres to the AMU administration to open it. Official sources said erstwhile AMU vice-chancellor P K Abdul Ajij while informing the ..
NVEQF proposes university to create skilled workforce 9/Oct/2011
The National Vocational Education Qualification Framework (NVEQF), seeking to create a pool of skilled workforce for the country, has proposed a university with regional centres in states to execute implementation of the ambitious initiative. The Framework, unveiled by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal here ..
Vocational education programme launched for technical colleges 8/Oct/2011
Government's ambitious National Vocational Education Qualification Framework (NVEQF) programme was launched for polytechnic and engineering colleges. Unveiling the initiative, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said multiple sectors were involved in developing the syllabi which enunciates the requirements of the ..
Don't agree with Murthy: Sibal 8/Oct/2011
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal refused to subscribe to Infosys chief Narayanamurthy's view about slump in the quality of education in IITs and pitched for creating more such institutes in the country. "We are capable of producing world class institutions like IITs and IIMs and we need to have more of these ..
US Asst Secy of Commerce to lead trade mission to India 8/Oct/2011
In a bid to give boost to Indo-US education ties, American Assistant Secretary of Commerce Suresh Kumar, who is of Indian-origin, will lead a Department of Commerce education-focused trade mission to India from Monday. The mission, organised in partnership with the US-India Educational Foundation ..

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