Education News in India

Charitable trust aims to transform the lives of underpriveleged students .. 8/Oct/2012
Run out of a small office in Indiranagar with only a handful of paid employees , a Bangalore-based charitable trust dreams big . It aims to transform the lives of bright young students by focusing on the one surefire way of bootstrapping one's way up the income ladder : higher education in professional fields. ..
IIM-A study on sanitation workers indicates their eagerness to educate .. 8/Oct/2012
Despite low literacy rates, financial difficulties and health problems, the sanitation workers in Ahmedabad are eager to send their daughters to school. A study by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) on sanitation workers says that 44 per cent of such families in Ahmedabad want to ..
Growth in education health outstrips GDP 8/Oct/2012
The country may be achieving less-than-desired growth in infrastructure. But the growth in social infrastructure such as education and health has outstripped GDP growth in the past seven years. The combined spending of both central and state governments in social infrastructure from 2003-04 to 2010-11 ..
TERI and Tetra pak India launch environment education programme 8/Oct/2012
In order to sensitise students about the importance of waste management and the importance of practicing sustainable life styles, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Tetra Pak India have launched an initiative — 'Cartons to Classrooms' under Project SEARCH, an environment education programme, which was ..
NID to be brought on par with IITs through an act of parliament 8/Oct/2012
The National Institute of Design (NID) will soon be declared a Centre of Excellence through an Act of Parliament , bringing it on par with the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Pradyumna Vyas, director, NID, said, "The institute has been providing contextual and cross-disciplinary education and ..
UGC changes qualifying criterion for NET 8/Oct/2012
Alarge number of teaching aspirants who appeared for the National Eligibility Test (NET) of the University Grants Commission (UGC) recently, are disappointed with the commission's decision to change the qualifying criterion post publication of the results. A number of candidates are planning to file a ..
Army not to implement 25 percent reservation in its own schools 7/Oct/2012
The Army is opposing implementation of 25 per cent reservation for children of weaker and disadvantaged groups in its around 150 schools under the Right to Education Act, saying it will hamper the educational prospects of wards of its own personnel. A letter in this regard has been sent to the Defence ..
DEC asks students to be wary of the status of the distance education .. 7/Oct/2012
Cautioning aspirants desirous of pursuing educational qualifications through open and distance learning (ODL) mode, the Distance Education Council (DEC) has asked students to apply only to those programmes approved by it. It has asked the candidates to check the status of distance education provider before ..
Chennai Academics among the awardees of INSA award 2012 8/Oct/2012
Three academics from the city are among the list of nine awardees selected to receive the Indian National Science Academy Awards 2012. The INSA Teachers Awards was instituted to value consistent and high levels of teaching in Indian colleges, universities and other higher educational institutions. ..
Demand for B-Schools and Engineering on the decline 8/Oct/2012
When the sun of the new millennium came up, shining on the aspirations of a young India, it marked the golden age for professional education. In the early part of the last decade, hundreds of new institutes came up and thousands of aspirants queued up to join them. That was a time when the country added up to one lakh ..

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