Education News in India

Technology to help GMAT preparations 11/May/2011
B-school aspirants preparing for the globally accepted GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) may not need to thumb through heavy textbooks and question banks. They can soon download the preparation material as an application on iPhones, iPods or even iPads, thanks to a tie-up between GMAT and Apple. The application ..
B-school graduates prefer pay over profit 11/May/2011
Entrepreneurship may be the buzzword on B-school campuses but at the end of the day management students find the sky-high salaries on offer rather hard to refuse, with the vast majority opting for a regular job. A 2011 global study by the Graduate Management Admission Council, which conducts GMAT, found only 5% of ..
University sets up six-member team to look into attendance 11/May/2011
Students will finally get some clarity on the issue of attendance. A six-member committee has been appointed to look into the attendance of over 6 lakh students across 652 colleges affiliated to the varsity. As per rule, students need to have 75% attendance to appear for final exams. However, some ..
Vague rules cost student a year 10/May/2011
Nineteen-year-old Nigel Wilhelmina (name changed on request) secured admission in an engineering college last year. However, the college cancelled his admission just before his exam in May this year as he could not produce a caste certificate in time. Nigel, an East Indian Christian, is one of many who ..
Medical interns may now face action 10/May/2011
A day after medical interns called off their week-long strike, the state authorities have done an about-turn. On Monday, Mantralaya issued a notice stating that the honourable minister (medical education minister Dr Vijaykumar Gavit) had never given assurance that no action would be taken against the striking interns...
Fee hike protests at Malad school 9/May/2011
Parents of children studying at Dr S Radhakrishnan Vidyalaya school in Malad (West) protested outside the school after the management increased the fees. The parents were demanding that the school withdraw the hike. However, the school authorities refused to do so, and called in the police. No complaint has been ..
NASA invites five Mumbai kids 11/May/2011
It’s barely three months since a ‘lunabot’ was born at a Goregaon lab. Today, it is an expert at extracting oxygen from sand particles found on the lunar surface. The indigenously-built robot will now fly to the US with its creators, a team of five Indian students, to participate in ..
Aiding The Blind 10/May/2011
An NGO working for the visually challenged in Kolkata donated 15 titles, in both English and Bengali to nine schools for blind in the vicinity of the city. Called the 'Third Eye' , it also distributed the first and second volumes of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitabitan in Braille edition, in association with National ..
Late for viva, 43 students may fail exam 10/May/2011
43 out of the 60 third-year architecture students from Bharti Vidyapeeth’s College of Architecture, Navi Mumbai, might fail their exams as the college did not allow them to appear for their vivas. The reason? The students reached half an hour after the exam began. The students approached Mumbai ..
Students worry as schools sit on online admission booklets 10/May/2011
While Std X students are anxiously awaiting their results and at the same time reading their online admission booklets to understand the process, some students are yet to get hold of them. The education department issued these booklets to all schools in the last week of April, but some educational institutes are yet to ..

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