Education News in India

Hoping for a bright future 6/Apr/2011
The jubilant smiles on the faces of the final-year students of St. Joseph's College of Engineering were in anticipation of a bright future as they received their placement orders on Tuesday. A total of 839 students got the orders at ‘Conquista '11', a programme organised in the college. Cognizant, ..
It's a season of entrance tests 6/Apr/2011
Vivek (name changed) was taken aback when his name did not figure in the class XI entrance test result list of Sir Sivaswami Kalalaya Senior Secondary School. “Physics was tough, it covered a lot of first-term portions,” says Vivek, who is one of the class toppers of another CBSE school. He ..
A pill to improve medical education 5/Apr/2011
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has proposed major changes in the undergraduate curriculum and training aimed at meeting the twin demand of having more graduates and maintaining the quality of education. The Board of Governors of the MCI has recommended creation of an “Indian Medical Graduate,” who will ..
Mixed response to proposals 5/Apr/2011
The MCI recommendations have evoked mixed reactions among academicians. Experts have suggested that the council should not go ahead and implement the proposals in haste. Terming the MCI's reforms as ‘generally appreciable', P. G. R. Pillai, Dean of Medical Science and Technology, Cochin University ..
Options in agricultural research abound 5/Apr/2011
Only very few of us know that our country has perhaps the biggest infrastructure for agricultural research in the world. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is the apex body for co-ordinating, guiding, and managing research and education in agriculture including horticulture, fisheries, and animal ..
Get ready for the entrance season 5/Apr/2011
For Pre-University students, who have just completed their all-important board examinations, the world is bound to suddenly appear seamless. With so many options ahead of them and important choices to make in the months that lie ahead, it seems like testing times are far from over. However, for a large ..
AAU: launchpad for a career in visual effects 5/Apr/2011
Movies are made from life and life reflects the movies itself. Among all our lives, movies have become a part of it. We grow, we cry, we laugh, we relate to it. Like other Indians, I grew up watching many good and dire movies in various languages. Among all these, Hollywood movies and their ..
Institutional transformation for making a difference in education 5/Apr/2011
To create world-class institutions, it is essential to introduce the 4C's of institutional transformation, namely centres of excellence, sponsored chairs, consulting, and corporate classrooms, Nagendra V. Chowdary, Centre Director, Aegis Global Academy, Coimbatore, said here on Saturday. At the ..
Building life on a platform and purpose 5/Apr/2011
As you enter your new world, you stand on what is called a platform. In its current form, the platform is largely incomplete. Once you have a good and complete platform, you will shift your focus on your purpose. So you have to build your life on two axes – platform and purpose, N.S. Parthasarathy, Chief Executive ..
IIT entrance exam answer scripts to go online 6/Apr/2011
In a bid to ensure transparency and enable students to have a proper assessment of themselves, answer scripts of the IIT entrance test this year will be made available online after the declaration of results. "Scanned copies of the answer scripts will be posted on Internet after the results are out ..

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