Education News in India

Pay more to learn more 15/Mar/2011
Earlier this week, the Higher Education Minister, V.S. Acharya, confirmed that a fee hike is imminent for engineering courses in Karnataka. While he is confident that the hike will be “marginal”, going from the noises emanating from the other camp, i.e. private college managements, the hike will be anything ..
Birth pangs of a new entrance test 15/Mar/2011
The proposed National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to the MBBS and postgraduate medical programmes have at one stroke heightened expectations in Kerala of a smooth, nation-wide ranking system of candidates and raised concerns about how much of an adjustment would students and college managements ..
New scheme for CSIR-UGC test 15/Mar/2011
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in collaboration with the University Grants Commission conducts the National Eligibility Test (NET) for determining the eligibility of candidates for the award of Junior Research Fellowships (JRF) and for determining eligibility for appointment as lecturers in specified ..
KVS signs MoU with IGNOU 15/Mar/2011
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) entered into an understanding with IGNOU for continuous professional development of its teachers to maintain quality in teaching under the RTE regime. The target group for the training programme to be imparted by IGNOU include primary teachers, graduate teachers and ..
Jharkhand govt keen to give reservation to BC, OBC 15/Mar/2011
Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda revealed his government favoured reservation to backward and other backward classes in districts where the 50 per cent cap did not leave them any scope for reservation in district-level jobs. "There are some districts where whole of the 50 per cent reservation limit goes ..
Maharashtra open varsity to train defence personnel 15/Mar/2011
The Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) has signed an MoU with the Defence services to train armymen working on the border through the distance mode of education. The MoU was signed between Dr R Krishnakumar, Vice Chancellor of YCMOU and Lt. General V ..
XLRI signs MoU with American Varsity 15/Mar/2011
XLRI school of Business and Human resources, Jamshedpur and Santa Clara University (SCU), California, USA, have signed an MOU recently to promote and foster social entrepreneurship in India. The two institutes have decided to collaborate whereby XLRI will be the Indian partner to manage and support Global Social ..
Girls more sensitive to issue of ragging than boys: Study 15/Mar/2011
Girls are far more logical and sensitive than boys on the issue of ragging, says a new survey that found that many students still believe in the myth that the practice helps in personality development. The summary findings by an anti-ragging NGO whose representative toured 28 universities and colleges in ..
Spelling Out Success: Bangalore man clinches Guinness Record 15/Mar/2011
Spelling the word 'Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia' could stump many, but not 25-year-old Guinness Book record holder Shishir Hathwar, who can not only do it without batting an eyelid but in the reverse order as well. It is not just this word (which means fear of long words) he can rattle off, but a number of ..
Tighter immigration rules to close door to 270,000 workers 15/Mar/2011
The future of British cuisine, mostly run by Indians and Chinese, have been thrown into doubt by new Home Office restrictions on the overseas recruitment of skilled migrants announced. The Immigration Minister, Damian Green, has decided to halt the recruitment from overseas of migrant chefs from outside Europe to ..

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