Education News in India

Economy pushes students to core engineering streams 8/Nov/2011
For years, computer science was a rage among those who made it to the top of the Common Entrance Test (CET) selection list. But preferences have changed as the information technology shimmer has faded and the state of the economy has become less certain. Among the popular streams, computer science has the ..
Swiss touch to vocational training 8/Nov/2011
There is a standard story about India's untapped demographic dividend working age population (15-59 years). We lack skilled or in many way employable workforce that can further boost our economic growth. There might be some hope in the coming years as an Indo-Swiss joint initiative is working to train about a million ..
University plans research portal 8/Nov/2011
Future research scholars of the University of Kerala have reason to cheer. A year from now, the entire research-related administrative process — from the scrutiny of research application to the scheduling of the open defence — would be done by software. According to a proposal cleared by the ..
Schoolgirl undertakes green campaign 8/Nov/2011
Inspired by the quote: ‘Be the change you want to see in the world', Shriya Mahajan, student of Std. IX of Etasi Timpany Secondary School, CBM Compound, has taken the onus of spreading the message of ‘save our environment'. To start with, she has initiated a club ‘My Envirovision' along ..
Report on students' performance under Samacheer Kalvi to be sought 8/Nov/2011
All government and Chennai schools in the city will soon be asked to consolidate the marks students have obtained in the first term and send the report to the School Education Department. The initiative is to help the Department get a sense of how students have scored after the introduction of Samacheer ..
Need to provide quality education 7/Nov/2011
There is need for providing quality education to every child in India whether it is offered in government or private schools. This will ensure a corruption-free society, prosperity of individual and of the nation, felt Loksatta Party founder, Jayaprakash Narayan. Speaking at “Spardhaa 11” - ..
Top business enterprises offer summer internship to IIM-K students 8/Nov/2011
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode said over 100 firms have made summer internship offers to 343 students of its flagship PGP programme. In the two year programme, after the first year, every student has to undertake 8 week internship in an organisation. This is the first time that all the ..
Swiss initiative to train one million youths in India 8/Nov/2011
After successful completion of a Swiss industry driven pilot project to impart vocational eduction, a new initiative to train one million youths in India by 2022 was unveiled here. "Under the new initiative, a separate company is being set up to move the project seamlessly from the pilot to a ..
A man with a mission: Teaching free for 40 years! 8/Nov/2011
He's a man with a noble mission to educate all. Meet Balaram Das, aged 62 years, with an experience of over four decades. In an admirable show of community spirit, Das has been teaching children for free at Gobindapur, a remote village in Odisha's Kendrapara district, for the last 40 years. ..
IGNOU spreads wings to 14 districts in Maharashtra 8/Nov/2011
With a humble beginning from just 10 learning centres, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Nagpur Regional Centre has now expanded its operation to 45 locations across 14 districts of Maharashtra in a short span of two years. Launched in April 2009, the IGNOU covers 11 districts of ..

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