Education News in India

India calling 30/Nov/2009
THE Open Doors Survey 2009 reveals that while India remains the leading country, for the eighth consecutive year, to contribute the largest chunk of international students to the US there has also been a sharp increase in the number of American students going to study in other countries and India is among them. The ..
Focus on fusion 30/Nov/2009
The scientific community today needs professionals who can effectively work across the traditional boundaries of academic Dr RA Mashelkar, former director general of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and president of Indian National Science Academy (INSA), aptly summarises the course ..
For a future ready education system 30/Nov/2009
WITH more than 400 universities and over 20,000 colleges, the student enrolment in India has crossed 12.9 million in 2007-2008, clocking a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.2% since 1985-86. Also, participation of the private sector has increased, with about 63% of the total higher education institutions in the ..
In the wild 30/Nov/2009
WILDLIFE conservation is a subject that has been debated in India both within the intellectual and popular social circles. But for 34 year old Bahar Dutt, it goes beyond the challenge of ensuring safety to endangered species. In her words, “People have to be sensitised to the fact that we need to conserve wildlife ..
Breaking News: Crashing start for CAT 2009 30/Nov/2009
THE Common Admission Test (CAT) for MBA, which for the first time has employed an online format, kick-started on a wrong note on Saturday with servers crashing across several test centres. Around 10,000 students had showed up across the country for the first day of the 10-day series of this online test. The test ..
Presi students demand script review 30/Nov/2009
Kolkata: Students from Presidency College have demanded a review of answer scripts. The statement made by the Student Federation of India (SFI) comes after Calcutta University’s results for BA/BSc/Bcom part II revealed a decline in marks for the second consecutive year. SFI ..
IFP prepares historical digital atlas 30/Nov/2009
Puducherry: After the successful launch of a historical atlas of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in digital format, the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), in association with four universities in southern states, has moved to the next phase to prepare a similar atlas of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. The ..
Conference on Digital Libraries 30/Nov/2009
New Delhi: Digital Libraries are increasingly playing a vital role in business, research and education and facilitating ‘anytime, anywhere access’ to knowledge resources. They are emerging as a crucial component of global information infrastructure and resources that bring the physical library and ..
IIM-A's business school confluence 30/Nov/2009
Ahmedabad: Honesty and profit can go hand in hand. This is the mantra for the new age corporate world where the issue of sustainabilty often crops up, said Gurcharan Das, former chief executive officer of Procter and Gamble (India) Limited and TOI columnist at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A)'s ..
CAT servers crash at a few centres 30/Nov/2009
Mumbai: There are reports that CAT servers in few centers faced overload problem and even though CAT convenor do not want to accept the word ‘crash’, they have mentioned that exams at few centers (Bangalore, Chennai, Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Varanasi and Bhopal) were disrupted and students were asked to take a ..

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