Education News in India

Committee recommends refund of fee unjustly hiked by 58 schools 16/Mar/2013
A Delhi high court-appointed panel has found 58 city schools to have "unjustly" raised their fee and has recommended that these schools return the "excess amount" to parents at 9% interest. The Justice Anil Dev Singh committee, which made the recommendation, has also called for a ..
Mukesh Ambani ready to set up an institute along the lines of Harvard .. 16/Mar/2013
Minister of higher and technical education Rajesh Tope said that industrialist Mukesh Ambani was ready to set up an institute along the lines of Harvard University in Maharashtra. The minister was speaking at the second convocation event of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga (earlier known as UDCT), where he ..
CBSE Class XII board accountancy paper proves challenging 16/Mar/2013
The CBSE Class XII board accountancy paper on Friday proved challenging, particularly tricky was the HOTS (higher order thinking skills) section. Having sailed through relatively easy papers earlier, on Friday even above-average students emerged from the examination hall looking grim and worried. Set ..
Goa CM confirms that sports merit marks will be added to the aggregate .. 16/Mar/2013
Chief minister Manohar Parrikar has allayed fears of the student community by confirming that sports merit marks will be added to the aggregate score. For the last two years, thousands of students felt cheated after the state government decided to maintain status quo. It meant sports merit marks remained ..
Martial art training to school girls to protect themselves from sexual .. 15/Mar/2013
The Bihar government has decided to train one million schoolgirls in karate so that they can use the martial art to protect themselves from sexual harassment, an official said Friday. Rahul Singh, the director of the Bihar Education Project Council, said, "Martial art training (karate) will be given ..
TalentEdge finalises plans to invest Rs 40 crore for expansion 14/Mar/2013
Premier education company TalentEdge has finalised plans to invest Rs 40 crore for expansion, which will see the company rapidly grow its chain of learning centres across in the country. Aditya Malik, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of TalentEdge, said, "In addition to increasing ..
ICFAI University signs MoU with Oklahoma State University for academic .. 14/Mar/2013
The ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, a deemed-to-be university, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Oklahoma State University, USA for academic collaboration. The MoU was signed at the ICFAI university campus by J. Mahender Reddy, Vice-Chancellor, and Burns Hargis, President, ..
Canada is keen on investing in joint projects with India 15/Mar/2013
At a meeting with a multi-sectoral gathering organised by Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) here, a delegation of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), which included some senators and MPs of Canadian Parliament, said the size of trade between the two countries had grown to 5.2 billion ollars last year from 1.75 ..
Public-private partnerships can revolutionise education in India 15/Mar/2013
Public-private partnerships in the Indian education sector can benefit from the experiences of western nations, an education forum has said. The Global Education & Skills Forum 2013 (GESF) which began is being organised in partnership with UNESCO, the Commonwealth Business Council, the Government of ..
UPSC notification to give more weightage to English in the Civil Services .. 15/Mar/2013
Bowing to all-round pressure in Parliament, Government kept in abeyance the recently issued controversial notification of the UPSC which gave more weightage to English in the Civil Services exams. The announcement was made in the Lok Sabha by Minister of State for Personnel V Narayanasamy after an ..

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