Education News in India

College admission a hurdle to students with disability 19/May/2011
As students with disability who have completed Class XII get set to join colleges, particularly aided and self-financing institutions, they encounter several barriers in the admission process. S. Aruna, a student from Kovalam, has partial visual impairment. She has applied to two city colleges. “I ..
Engineering counselling will be close race' this year 19/May/2011
This year's engineering admission counselling in Tamil Nadu is going to be a “close race” because of the same cut-off marks scored by unusually more number of students in Plus-Two examinations. There are hundreds of students having the same cut-off mark and they have been asked to have a ..
Multiple agencies to assess accreditation eligibility of institutions .. 19/May/2011
Multiple agencies that will assess the accreditation eligibility of higher education institutions on the basis of a set of “proxy parameters” should be the way forward for quality assurance in India's higher learning sector, experts said on Wednesday. Educationists attending the two-day ..
?Textbooks will be ready before schools reopen? 18/May/2011
Textbooks for the new academic year will be ready and distributed before schools reopen, Minister for School Education C.Ve. Shanmugam said on Wednesday. 'Samacheer Kalvi' Talking to reporters after his first meeting with heads of various departments on the Directorate of Public Instruction ..
Non-minority edu institutions can't have choice of students: SC 18/May/2011
The Supreme Court has held that non-minority educational institutions cannot claim to take in students of only their choice and struck down the provision of 100 per cent reservation for children of armed forces in the Army College of Medical Sciences (ACMS) in Delhi. A Bench comprising Justices B ..
Be ready to compete with kids of Beijing and Mumbai: Obama 17/May/2011
Seeing it as signs of emergence of new world, US President Barack Obama has warned American students to strive hard to stay ahead as they face tough competition from youngsters in India and China. "You're competing against young people in Beijing and Mumbai. That's some tough competition. Those ..
HC allows Mumbai civic body to set up school as per its policy 17/May/2011
Accepting the civic body's policy to set up English Medium schools in the city, the Bombay High Court has dismissed a petition filed by Balak Vidya Vihar Trust which challenged the decision of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to allot a plot of land in suburban Mahim to another organisation for opening a ..
BAU and WDF sign MOU for agriculture project in Bihar 18/May/2011
The Bihar Agriculture University (BAU), Sabour (Bihar) and New Delhi-based NGO - World Development Foundation (WDF) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the project - Agriculture KnowledgeDissemination System (ANDS) in Bihar. The MOU was signed by the BAU's Dean Dr. A.P. Singh and the WDF ..
Saudi Arabia opens university for 50,000 women 17/May/2011
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has inaugurated a state-of-the-art university for women, claimed to be the worlds largest with a capacity to enroll 50,000 students. Princess Nora bint Abdulrahman University (PNU), 25 km east of the Saudi capital of Riyadh, has been built at a cost of USD ..
IIM-T to open on June 15 17/May/2011
A new IIM will open here next month with a total student strength of 60 students. Infrastructure is in place and 12 faculty members have been chosen after stringent selection parameters and 27 students have already being chosen, Dr Prafulla Agnihotri, Director of IIM-T said. ..

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