Education News in India

Baba Ramdev favours local languages as medium of instruction 26/Mar/2011
Amidst heated discussion on the Medium of Instruction (MOI) in Goa, Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev rendered his support in favour of local languages â€“ Konkani and Marathi, as MOI. Briefing media in Panaji, Swami Ramdev said that he was not against English but Indian languages should be given ..
Job-oriented skills training initiated 26/Mar/2011
India Skills, a vocational training initiative from Manipal Education and City & Guilds, here today launched 'GMS Vocations and IndiaSkills' in association with Gowtham Model Schools (GMS). The joint venture will facilitate job-oriented skills training for 9,000 students from Class XI and XII ..
Coffee table book on IIM-A released 26/Mar/2011
The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, (IIM-A), celebrating its golden jubilee year, today released a coffee table book on itself. 'IIMA: India's Management Athenaeum' was released by Vijaypat Singhania, Chairperson of IIM-A's Board of Governors. "The coffee table book ..
CET for MBBS aspirants not applicable in J&K: PDP 26/Mar/2011
Common Entrance Test (CET) for MBBS aspirants at the national level should not be applicable to students in Jammu and Kashmir, Opposition PDP said in the state Assembly. Raising the issue in the state Assembly, PDP chief and Legislature Party Leader Mehbooba Mufti demanded that CET for MBBS at national ..
Political apppointing of VCs need to stop: Kapil Sibal 26/Mar/2011
Kapil Sibal, the Minister of Human Resource Development stressed to end political interference in appointing vice chancellors. "This must end," Sibal told a conference of Central and State university vice chancellors after noting how such appointments are made "at the instance of the ..
AP Govt to push English at primary education level 26/Mar/2011
With English increasingly becoming the preferred language of education even among students hailing from poorer sections, the Andhra Pradesh Govt has decided to lay emphasis on the language right from Class I in its schools. English will now be taught as the second language from Class I from 2011-12 ..
Mumbai boy wins International Furniture Design Award 25/Mar/2011
Samir Wadekar, a graduate of Raffles Design Institute, won the Singapore Furniture Industries Council’s Furniture Design Award 2011 for his contemporary Liseta Bookcase. He received the FDA 2011 Merit Award in the student’s category. The Liseta Bookcase creates a visionary effect of books ..
ISC students worry about math scores 25/Mar/2011
What happens if we score bad in maths? Can we depend on chemistry?”, “I am surely not scoring more than 60 in maths”, “Was the maths paper too tough and lengthy indeed, or was my preparation for the paper too bad?” These and many more such comments flooded an online forum where Indian ..
Board exams play spoilsport 25/Mar/2011
While a majority of Mumbaikars were glued to their television sets on Thursday, following the India-Australia cricket match, 18-year-old Kaustubh Patel had locked himself up in his room so that he could prepare himself for his paper on Friday. “It’s our final paper and I was sincerely hoping that no major ..
US university visa scam just tip of iceberg: Report 25/Mar/2011
A visa scam at Tri Valley University (TVU) in California, that has affected hundreds of Indian students, is just the tip of an iceberg and a large number of such institutes exist in the US, a probe report in Washington has said. “Other colleges – most of them unaccredited – exploit ..

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