Education News in India

Business ideas in children to the fore 13/Feb/2011
Team leader B. Gopika and her seven-member group are brainstorming hard to raise funds for their venture ‘Baby's Day Out' – a play school targeted at parents who work on late shifts. But the venture is having a tough time getting capital. “Why should I give you funds, you are new in the ..
Educational institutes must lay the base for inclusive society: N. Ram 13/Feb/2011
The foundations for an inclusive society, which presupposes a secular, democratic and progressive outlook, must be laid in schools, colleges and universities, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, N. Ram said here on Sunday. Delivering the chief guest's address at the Eleventh Graduation Day of Bannariamman ..
Stone laid for medical college 14/Feb/2011
Deputy Chief Minister M.K.Stalin laid the foundation stone for the government medical college to be constructed at a cost of Rs. 100 crore at M.Pudur near here on Sunday. Earlier, he opened the Periyar Memorial Samathuvapuram at Ramapuram, some distance away from M.Pudur, built at a cost of Rs 2.55 crore...
Sleep turns elusive for students 14/Feb/2011
Table Tennis player K.K. Narmada remembers how challenging it was to take her first semester examinations in college, while simultaneously training for the State championship held around the same time. The B.Com student, going to a city college, says she would stay up till midnight to study and wake ..
As exam fever catches on 14/Feb/2011
With the Board examinations approaching, students of Chennai Schools are gearing up to face the challenge head on. While the Class XII examinations are a fortnight away, the Class X examinations would begin by the end of next month. For V. Gnanasekar, a Class X student, who wants to become an IAS ..
Tri Valley University students should be ?absorbed? into U.S. varsities: .. 12/Feb/2011
India today said that the Indian students of California-based Tri Valley University, which has been shut down on charges of massive visa fraud, should be absorbed into other U.S. universities and not victimised. “The student who came in good faith, they should not be victimized,” External ..
A birthday to remember 12/Feb/2011
A few weeks ago, a boatload of five Indian social workers arrived on an island on Chilika Lake in Orissa, accompanied by a pale, white-bearded American in a wide-brimmed canvas hat. I was about to visit a 14-year-old girl named Deepa, a fisherman's daughter, whom I'd been exchanging letters with for about a year through ..
Varsity to set up community college 12/Feb/2011
Mahatma Gandhi University will set up a community college based on a finishing school concept to help students from weaker sections who have not been able to complete their professional courses, a top official said today. A sum of Rs 50 lakh earmarked in MKU's 2011-12 budget for the college, to be set up ..
AP professional colleges to shutdown from Feb 16 over fee row 12/Feb/2011
The managements of professional colleges in Andhra Pradesh said they will shutdown their institutes from February 16 to protest the State Government's refusal to release the full amount for the tuition fees reimbursement for backward class students. The representatives of the managements held discussions ..
HC expresses anguish at MCD 12/Feb/2011
The Delhi High Court expressed its anguish at the MCD for failing to make proper portable cabins in schools, which are run in tents, despite its repeated directions. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjeev Khanna said the condition of the schools is "pathetic" despite ..

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