Education News in India

RBI selects Karnataka to introduce course on financial sector 15/May/2009
Bangalore: Keen to improve the country's "financial literacy", the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as decided to introduce financial sector issues as part of the curriculum in schools and colleges and chosen Karnataka for the pilot project. The plan is part of the central ..
Delhi University raises OBC reservation to 18 percent 15/May/2009
New Delhi: Delhi University (DU) today announced 18 percent reservation, an increase of nine percent, for students of Other Backward Classes (OBC) from the next academic session. S.K. Vij, dean of students welfare, said at a press conference that along with the increase in ..
Law exam postponed fearing paper leak 14/May/2009
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) that was scheduled for May 17 is now postponed following fears that questions papers were leaked, officials said on Wednesday. Veer Singh, convenor CLAT in a statement issued here, said: "Two locked and sealed steel boxes containing the CLAT-2009 test material have been ..
Unaffiliated colleges beware 14/May/2009
Bangalore: Taking note ICFAI college fiasco, Higher Education Minister Aravind Limbavali has directed Department of Technical Education to identify unaffiliated colleges in the state and take legal action against them. DTE has begun preparing a list of such colleges and will send inspection teams to these colleges by ..
Sparsh Hindi Textbook To Be Used For Std X 14/May/2009
The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHSE) has appointed a reviewer to review the standard seventh NCERT history textbook which has come under severe criticism from parents and teachers over the last few months for lack of state and country specific content. Official sources said that a ..
Stay within limits, Amar Singh tells Congress 12/May/2009
At the end of 2008, applications for MBA programmes across the globe had reached unprecedented levels. A survey by GMAC, the Graduate Management Admissions Council, of 500 schools around the world found that the number of potential MBA students had risen by a staggering 64% on the previous year, as managers and ..
KIIT signs MoU with Edinburghs Telford College 12/May/2009
Bhubaneswar: KIIT University and Edinburgh’s Telford College signed a Memorandum of Understanding on May 10. L C Amarnathan, Rector International Programme, KIIT and Julia Weedon, International Manager of Edinburgh’s Telford College signed the agreement. The MoU ..
Now, CAT goes digital 12/May/2009
The 33-year-old Common Admission Test, used as the yardstick to screen candidates for admissions to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management, is all set to go digital. Shedding the paper-and-pencil format for a simple Computer-Based Test (CBT), the IIMs recently announced that the single-day affair will soon be ..
Higher studies, the way to go 12/May/2009
The economic downturn is driving more students away from the search for elusive jobs and toward the option of higher studies abroad, according to students and the representatives of educational institutions who participated in The Hindu EducationPlus International Education Fair on May 8 and 9 in Chennai. ..
Knowledge panel satisfied with progress 12/May/2009
From setting up 15 central universities across the country to ensuring the right to education, the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) feels that the Union government has been committed to implementing its recommendations. In a follow-up report on the steps being taken by the government, NKC observes that the ..

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