Education News in India

The tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth! 11/Jul/2010
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army,” said Edward Everet. Fresh dental graduates prefer joining call centres as staff! A majority lack the confidence to start private practice right after the completion of postgraduation attained by hardly attending classes! By all ..
The ailing world of medical education 11/Jul/2010
Medical education and technical education are two important constituents of higher education, which are monitored and controlled by the Medical Council of India (MCI) and the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). The rising demand for higher education, and the government's inability to fulfil the ..
Ansari calls for a better networked university system 10/Jul/2010
Vice-President M. Hamid Ansari has said that sharing of facilities for research and exchange of skills and knowledge will, in the long run, contribute to a more networked, efficient and productive university system. Inaugurating the Inter-University Centre for Biosciences (IUCB) on the ..
New colleges averse to BA, B.Sc. courses 10/Jul/2010
The managements of some institutions that propose to open new degree colleges from 2010-11 seem to be more interested in “business”. Thirteen of the 14 colleges that have been granted affiliation by Mangalore University this year have decided to offer only B.Com., BBM and BCA courses. One ..
Academia-industry interface important: Ansari 10/Jul/2010
Greater interaction between academia and industry in various fields would be beneficial to the country in the longer-term, Vice President M Hamid Ansari said here on Saturday. He was speaking after inaugurating the Inter University Centre for Bio-sciences under Kannur University here. ..
University to serve notices on teachers 10/Jul/2010
The Syndicate of Mangalore University in its meeting on Thursday decided to issue a show-cause notice to the Principal Investigator of a research project against whom two women researchers have filed a complaint of harassment. The researchers subsequently resigned and opted out of the project. The ..
Vice-Chancellor lauds IECD's empowerment initiatives 10/Jul/2010
The Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (IECD) has, since its launch six years ago, imparted training to more than 22,700 educated and uneducated youth, home makers, differently abled people, and senior citizens. IECD offers certificate and diploma programmes in 158 streams. Last year, ..
Panel to prepare roadmap for education trust 10/Jul/2010
The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has formed a committee under the chairmanship of Chigurupati Varaprasad, MLC, to prepare a roadmap for formation of an ‘education trust' with a corpus of at least Rs.5 crores to strengthen infrastructure in the VMC-run schools and also support the higher education of ..
Kolkata boys find place around sun 10/Jul/2010
They are barely 18 years old, but have already achieved immortality. Anish Mukherjee and Debarghya Sarkar, who passed out of South Point High School this year, now have two minor planets named after them. The celestial honour was bestowed on them by the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and Lincoln Laboratory of ..
Schools junk ranks in pre-board tests 10/Jul/2010
Spare the rank and save the child — that’s the latest adage in city schools. Most of them have decided to do away with the old system of ranking kids in class based on marks in terminal and annual examinations. The reason: this archaic system was increasing stress among children. Since the ..

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