Education News in India

Why do Chinese students outperform Indians? 3/Feb/2012
A handful of weeks back, in the ACER PISA test — the OECD’s annual global assessment of students’ skills (for South and South East Asia) — India came second from the bottom defeating Kyrgyzstan while China topped the list. This acts as the final nail in the coffin of India’s dented ..
Less than 12 pc graduates get hired in India 3/Feb/2012
Less than 12 per cent of graduates get employed in the country, lamented the chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), N.K. Ranganath, adding that the government and universities should join hands to improve the situation in the country. India would put a large pool of youngsters in the ..
Child Right Fellowship 2/Feb/2012
Internationally acclaimed child rights organisation, Child Rights and You (CRY), is inviting applications to its National Child Rights Research Fellowship. The organisation that is popularly known for its extensive work in the field of child relief in the rural areas of India is now trying to reach out to researchers ..
Lecture on Multiple Intelligences 2/Feb/2012
Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University and the father of the theory of Multiple Intelligences delivered his third public lecture in India at the American School of Bombay. The talk focussed on ‘Five minds for the future’ and was attended by over 400 of the city’s top business and ..
Wadhwani Research Centre in Biosciences and Bioengineering inaugurated in .. 1/Feb/2012
IIT Bombay and Wadhwani Foundation inaugurated the Wadhwani Research Centre in Biosciences and Bioengineering (WRCBB) recently. Romesh Wadhwani, chairman, Wadhwani Foundation and founder, Symphony Technology Group, Kathy Wadhwani and Devang Khakhar, director, IIT Bombay inaugurated the Centre by unveiling the ceremonial ..
School bus strikes a safety risk 1/Feb/2012
The long-drawn debate and discussions over the School Bus Safety Policy as well as periodic calls for strike by school bus owners have put both schools and the government in a spot. The latest, indefinite state-wide strike call has come from the School Bus Owners’ Association; buses may go off the roads from ..
Centre readies plan to check offending schools 1/Feb/2012
School education in India has undergone a tremendous transformation. But the one aspect where change is felt the most has been in the fact that paying for school now occupies a thick slice in the family budget pie, something that earlier went blissfully unnoticed. The soaring fees, the rise of private ..
BMC schools lack basic facilities 1/Feb/2012
The Right to Education Act has surely brought relief to many children, but a recent survey of the state of municipal schools in Mumbai has shed light on glaring loopholes in the implementation of the Act. Be it provision of basic infrastructure or sanitation facilities for students in civic schools, the survey found out ..
New JEE to blur class XII marks bias? 1/Feb/2012
The new single Joint Entrance Examination being proposed for admission to Indian Institutes Technology/ National Institutes of Technology/ Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research/ Indian Institutes of Information Technology and state government-run engineering colleges would not have a uniform weightage to ..
Faculty crunch dogs B-Schools 1/Feb/2012
Indian business school classrooms have been growing in size over the past decade, spurred by rising demand for management professionals. Top institutes are opening new campuses and new B-schools are popping up everywhere. Management education is more accessible than ever before. Quality, however, has taken a backseat...

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