Education News in India

Eligibility test for teachers from coming year onwards 12/Apr/2011
Aiming to improve teaching standards under the RTE ambit, the govt has decided to introduce a national level teacher eligibility test for teacher recruitment for class one one to eight from this year. The "Central Teacher Eligibility Test' (CTET) will be conducted by CBSE on June 26 for recruitment ..
CII to set up four Centres of Excellence on skills in North 12/Apr/2011
Industry body CII today said it would set up four Centres of Excellence on skills in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh this year in a bid to align human skills with industry requirements. "Our main thrust this year will be on skills and education and we will set up ..
US embassy gifts 1,000 books to city schools 12/Apr/2011
US embassy today gifted 1,000 books to ten city schools to mark the friendship of US First Lady Michelle Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur. Sally Roemer, wife of US ambassador Timothy Roemer, presented the books to the schools at a function here attended by Culture ..
Students get selected through job fair 12/Apr/2011
As many as 160 students were issued formal appointment orders from different institutions, of which Axis Bank alone recruited 50 candidates at the job fair conducted recently by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) here. Thirty one companies, comprising financial institutions --HDFC, Axis Bank, Farm ..
IIT aspirants cry foul over JEE errors Newsroom IIT aspirants cry foul .. 11/Apr/2011
For the second consecutive year, candidates for IITJEE came out of test centres on Sunday fuming about errors in the question paper. Several students complained that three questions in math were wrong. IIT-Kanpur director, Sanjay Dhande, said he had not received any complaints but would investigate the matter. ..
Howlers in JEE-2011, scream candidates 11/Apr/2011
Every year the IITs conduct one of the toughest competitive exams in the world to select the country’s best brains. The expectation of such an enterprise is an infallible selection procedure. But for the second year in a row, one of the question papers for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) was found to contain ..
Far-off centres make aspirants break into a sweat, literally 11/Apr/2011
The very thought of appearing in IIT-JEE can make many a student break into a sweat figuratively. But this year, several candidates actually had to undergo the experience: they had to travel miles in the sweltering heat to reach their exam centres. Many students from South Mumbai had to travel to Navi ..
Womens participation in tech exam plateaus 11/Apr/2011
IITians often joke about the most endangered species on campus: women. But from their single digit presence just 40 years ago to around 1, 500 now, women have come a long way in the country’s premier tech schools. Still, this year’s JEE was the first time in years that the percentage of women ..
Reprieve to 44 deemed universities facing de-recognition 11/Apr/2011
The Supreme Court on Monday gave a reprieve to the 44 deemed universities (DUs) facing de-recognition on the basis of the deficiencies pointed out by the Tandon Committee, by extending the status quo order (viz., restraining the government from taking further action on the basis of the report). This would mean ..
Over 1.66 lakh candidates to appear for VIT entrance exam 11/Apr/2011
A total of 1,66,493 candidates, comprising 1,33,291 boys and 33,202 girls will be appearing for the VIT Engineering Entrance Examination (VITEEE)-2011 to be conducted by the VIT University, Vellore, in 243 centres in 105 cities all over India and three foreign countries between 2.30 p.m. and 5 p.m. on April 16 to select ..

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