Education News in India

AICTE provides admission guidelines 12/Mar/2011
Notwithstanding opposition from private B-schools, AICTE today went ahead with implementing its guidelines on admission to post graduate management programmes. The Council asked the institutes to specify their preferences on selecting candidates either through CAT, MAT or through examination conducted by ..
NIIT signs MoU with Ministry of Agriculture 12/Mar/2011
NIIT, leading IT trainer, has been appointed as the training delivery partner by Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, to offer specialized IT training program to the users of National Animal Disease Reporting System (NADRS). ..
Rajasthan has highest number of pvt varsities 12/Mar/2011
Currenly, the country has 77 private universities with Rajasthan topping the list with as many as 16 such institutions, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. "According to available information, as on date, there are 77 universities established by state legislatures without public funding," Minister ..
"Ghost" forces Pune school shut 12/Mar/2011
In a weird incident, a school here has been temporarily closed after a standard 5th student claimed that he had seen a "ghost" coming out of the blackboard, leading to a frenzied exodus from the building. The authorities at Lady Halima Begum Urdu Primary School in Kondhva area have suspended all classes ..
Students travel 30-50 km for school-leaving exams 12/Mar/2011
Students in some tribal dominated areas are forced to travel 30-50 km for their High School Certificate examinations (HSC) in Sundargarh district of Orissa in violation of the norms of the education department. Strong resentment was prevailing among students and parents due to bad communication to the ..
Maharashtra will not reimburse school fee of backward class students 11/Mar/2011
The Maharashtra government told the Bombay High Court that it would no longer reimburse school fees of backward class students studying in private unaided schools. The court was hearing two petitions filed by one Naresh Gosavi and Narayan Guru High School. ..
TN admissions on prevailing counselling system not through CET 11/Mar/2011
TN govt announced that admissions to medical courses this year would be on merit and not through the Common Entrance Test as directed by the Supreme Court in view of the Assembly elections. Official sources said a policy decision whether to accept the Supreme Court's guidelines will be taken by the new ..
'Hopeful about passage of crucial legislations on education' 11/Mar/2011
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today expressed hope that crucial legislations on reforming higher education, which have already been tabled in the Parliament, will be passed by this year. He said while Parliamentary Standing Committee reports are awaited on some of these bills, reports of some other legislations ..
Literary awards for Assamese and Bengali poets 11/Mar/2011
The first Padmanath Memorial and Ramanath Memorial literary awards 2010 would be presented to eminent Assamese poet Ajit Barua and noted Bengali poet Bijit Kumar Bhattacharya, respectively, on Sunday here. The awards would be presented at a function where the Padmanath Vidyabinod Memorial Lecture would be ..
'Untrained' teachers to be given VRS 11/Mar/2011
Meghalaya Government is contemplating on offering Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) to some 15,000 'untrained' teachers in the state, most of them without even minimum qualifications, Governor R S Mooshahary said. "Keeping in mind the huge backlog of about 15,000 untrained teachers and the limited capacity ..

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