Education News in India

Draft law unveiled for Innovation Universities' 22/Jul/2010
Breaking free of conventional higher education concepts, the Manmohan Singh government has taken the first step towards implementing its proposal for creating 14 ‘Innovation Universities' by circulating draft legislation for comment by various stakeholders. The Innovation Universities are aimed at ..
No detention of students till Class VIII 23/Jul/2010
No student in the State can henceforth be detained till he or she completes Class VIII. A Government Order dated July 12, 2010, states: “No child shall be held back in any class or expelled from school till the completion of elementary education in a school.” It comes in the ..
SRM inks pact with La Trobe 23/Jul/2010
SRM University, Kattankulathur, on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding with Australian university La Trobe for cooperation in civil, electrical and electronics and software engineering at the graduate- and post-graduate level. Brian McGaw, Dean, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering of ..
Clueless on number of seats, state stalls tech admissions 22/Jul/2010
Maharashtra has stalled admissions to its professional courses- engineering and MBA-as it does not have accurate information on the number of seats in its colleges. In several cases, information that local colleges fed into the database and records from the All India Council for Technical Education-the apex regulatory ..
Duped students must get Rs 2L payout: SC 22/Jul/2010
Students lured into taking admission through false advertisements by unrecognised and non-affiliated colleges should be compensated heavily by these institutions, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday. "Why not pay Rs 2 lakh to each student duped by such institutions? It's quite like railway accidents ..
Indian trio among education experts to address Global Summit 22/Jul/2010
A trio of Indian education experts is among an elite list set to address a global education summit in Bahrain this October. Kailash Satyarthi, President of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE); Kiran Bir Sethi, Founder of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad; and Sudhir Ghodke, Director of Educational ..
Indian students shine at Microsoft contest in Poland 22/Jul/2010
Six Indian students from Chennai and New Delhi secured second and third positions in the eighth Microsoft Imagine Cup world finals held in the Polish capital Warsaw, the global software major said. The students - Koushik Vaidhinathan, Lalitha Ashok and Kiran Kumar of Prathyusha Institute of Technology, ..
My govt will spend any amount on education:Karunanidhi 23/Jul/2010
M Karunanidhi today said his government would make sincere efforts to ensure that quality education reaches the poor. Declaring open a new block constructed in his name at a cost of Rs 3.20 crore at the historic Queen Mary's College here, he said if a detailed list was made available to him on the ..
Scientists from IIT and IISc design laptop for just Rs 1500 23/Jul/2010
Experts from IIT and IISc have come out with a laptop affordable even to economically downtrodden students and eventually for public too. The HRD minister Kapil Sibal unveiled access-cum-computing device priced at Rs 1500 or $35 for students here on Thursday. Designed by experts from ..
Airbus launches global student contest for eco-efficient flight ideas 22/Jul/2010
Students from Indian universities have an opportunity to compete in a global contest to develop eco-efficient air travel ideas launched by European aircraft giant Airbus at the Farnborough Air Show Wednesday. Airbus launched its second bi-annual global students' contest â€œTo shape the ..

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