Education News in India

Set sail armed with practical knowledge 7/Jun/2010
Academic study by referring to different books and course materials and listening to classroom lectures is just one part of education. The study or the course is complete only when one is exposed to live projects or simulated ambience. And the second part is vital for careers associated with sailing or ..
Studies in physician assistant course, hospital management get a fillip 7/Jun/2010
Dr. K.M.Cherian's Frontier Lifeline Hospital has announced the commencement of admissions for the B.S. (Bachelor of Science) in Physician Assistant course, in collaboration with Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, and the Ph.D Programme in Stem Cell Biology, in collaboration with the prestigious ..
Quality is just a distant dream 7/Jun/2010
A visit of the high-powered committee revealed the pathetic status of a majority of the centres. The committee found that barring three or four, most of them have no building of their own to function, some are using one premises for admitting/enrolling of candidates and some other place for conducting classes, and a ..
Are basic sciences losing ground? 7/Jun/2010
The Tamil Nadu Government has reduced minimum eligibility marks by five per cent for admission to Engineering courses from 2010-11 purportedly to widen opportunities for rural students, much to the relief of managements of self-financing engineering colleges. Last year, there were 51,000 vacant seats across the 440 ..
IGNOU-UNESCO Science Olympiad 7/Jun/2010
New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University and UNESCO will organise a South Asia Science Olympiad for 11th grade students from all SAARC countries. Eleventh grade students from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with a minimum of ..
IGNOU offer certificate courses in Chinese and Spanish 7/Jun/2010
Madurai: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) would offer certificate courses in Chinese and Spanish languages from this year. Talking to reporters after a function to open a new campus for its regional centre here, IGNOU Vice-Chancellor V N Rajasekharan Pillai said the institution had signed an ..
Malaysians to graduate in Indian classical music 7/Jun/2010
Kuala Lumpur: Come August and Malaysia will see the first batch of graduates and diploma holders in Indian classical music trained at a state-of-the-art school affiliated to an Indian university. Malaysian students intending to study Indian classical music now pursue their interest in their own country ..
NEWS Font Size School of Open Learning raises eligibility criteria 7/Jun/2010
New Delhi: The decision by Delhi University authorities to increase the eligibility criteria for B.A. and B.Com courses of the School of Open Learning (SOL) to 40 percent has garnered mixed reactions from people. Many people are opposed to the decision as they feel that it will restrict many aspirants ..
Education makes life meaningful, says Kiran Bedi 7/Jun/2010
New Delhi: Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi underscored the crucial role education plays in the overall development of society and said every possible effort should be made to educate people on issues related to life. Addressing a function, organised to mark the formal launch of an educational programme on ..
RTE may suffer from teachers' shortage 4/Jun/2010
New Delhi: The Right to Education Act (RTE) might come a cropper for acute shortage of teachers, especially lack of trained ones. That's how the Parliamentary Committee on Human Resource Development assesses the situation with regard to implementation of the historic act. 'Teacher recruitment is today the ..

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