Education News in India

Copycat suicides led to calls for help last Jan 24/Feb/2011
January may have been the month when Mumbai was most worried in 2010. Data from a helpline shows that the most calls from those seeking mental or emotional help came in the first month of last year. This included callers seeking information on mental health, those making general inquiries, the suicidal and even blank or ..
RTE Act violates rights of unaided schools: Counsel 25/Feb/2011
Providing free and compulsory education for all children aged between six and 14 under the Right to Education (RTE) Act violated the unfettered rights of unaided schools in making admissions of their choice, senior counsel Vikas Singh argued in the Supreme Court on Thursday. Under the Act, every ..
17 colleges to be closed due to poor student strength 24/Feb/2011
Seventeen government degree colleges in Karnataka are being closed down because of poor student strength. Higher Education Minister V S Acharya said these colleges had a student headcount of less than 50 each. Among them are degree colleges in Hassan and Holenarasipura, where the student strength was as ..
Aided colleges must appoint senior most staff as HOD: HC 24/Feb/2011
The Madras High Court bench here refused to quash the Government Order directing aided colleges to appoint the senior most person in the respective departments as Head of the Department. Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice R Subbhiah, dismissing the appeal filed by the Secretary of the St.Joseph's ..
National Conference on Engineering and Technology 24/Feb/2011
Around 120 delegates including many from across the country would participate in the two-day national conference on emerging trends in Engineering and Technology, scheduled to be held here on February 25 and 26. Speaking to mediapersons here today, Prof P A Saheeda, Principal, Government Engineeing ..
Workshop on filmmaking 24/Feb/2011
A two day workshop on Film making conducted jointly by Amrita School of Arts and Science and Association of British scholars, a wing of British council, was organized here today. Reghunath Paleri, well known director and script writer inaugurated the workshop, a press release from the oganisers said.<br ..
Maharashtra raises retirement age for college teachers to 62 24/Feb/2011
Maharashtra Government raised the retirement age for college teachers to 62 years in accordance with the guidelines by University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). "The retirement age of teachers in Higher and Technical education has been increased from 58 ..
Commerce grads all CET to lead the race 23/Feb/2011
Engineers have always been ahead in the race when it comes to taking MBA entrance tests. But Maharashtra has beaten the trend this year. More commerce graduates have signed up to take the state’s common entrance test (CET) for admissions to management courses. According to data provided by the ..
School suspends boy for abusing principal on FB 23/Feb/2011
A 13-year-old student of a city school has been suspended for a Facebook ‘prank’ targeting his principal. Authorities at M P Shah English High School, Vile Parle, claim the class VIII boy posted “abusive language” on the principal’s Facebook wall. A source claimed the school is planning to ..
More options for online junior college admissions 23/Feb/2011
The junior college online admission system will have more options for Class X students this year. Students will have to enter codes of at least 35 colleges, unlike just a minimum of five last year. This has been done to reduce the queues for offline admission. In the first part of the form students will have to fill ..

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