Education News in India

Build your own MBA 18/Jul/2011
These days, universities across the world are going back to the drawing board to personalise Master's programmes in business. Diptiman Dewan reports Many MBA aspirants face the issue of having to settle for MBA programmes which do not offer the subjects, majors, or programme durations that is suited to ..
Join course to write creatively, break news 18/Jul/2011
Taking inspiration from Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke, Richard Feynman or even a Stephen Hawking to turn science into prose, the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) is getting off the beaten track. It will tell stories of science to inform and entertain. Three experts in science writing and ..
UP Unani college now part of LU 18/Jul/2011
State-run Unani College of Medicine will be affiliated to the University of Lucknow from the 2011 academic session. The college was affiliated to the Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University, Kanpur since 1972. The college, known as Rajkiya Takmil ut Tib College evum chikitsalaya, has 40 ..
RTU to extend revaluation for M Tech exam too 18/Jul/2011
From the academic session 2011-12, M Tech students in colleges affiliated to Rajasthan Technical University (RTU) can apply for re-evaluation in all branches of engineering. The decision was taken at an academic council meeting held on July 16. This will allow students to apply for re-evaluation in case ..
Compulsory sports plan goes against WB education policy 18/Jul/2011
The state government might be planning to introduce a no-detention policy for students up to Class VIII, but sports minister Madan Mitra has different plans altogether. He wants to make sports compulsory and a student has to pass the subject for being promoted. Mitra's visit on Sunday was part of his political programme ..
Mantra for WB teachers: Perform or perish 18/Jul/2011
This year, at least 100 MTech students from IIT-Kharagpur, 50 passouts from IIM-Calcutta and 30 MStat students from the Indian Statistical Institute have bagged jobs abroad or have left the country for research in leading foreign universities. A stunning record, you would say. But it does nothing to ..
Enough of politics in education in West Bengal 18/Jul/2011
Guess where Bengal, once the unquestioned leader in higher education, stands among 35 states and Union Territories today? An embarrassing 19th, says the latest national survey on education by the Union ministry of human resources development. Forget Delhi, Maharashtra or the southern states, we have ..
Reving higher education in Bengal: Much to unlearn 18/Jul/2011
The best students do not stay back in Bengal. Every year at least 20,000 undergraduate students leave for other states. Some get into IIT-Kharagpur, IIM-Joka or the Indian Statistical Institute but it is more by default than design. Higher education in Bengal, once the envy of other states, is going ..
LU new session begins on pleasant note 17/Jul/2011
The new academic session of the Lucknow University began on a pleasant note on Saturday, literally. As heavy rains broke the 10-day dry spell, freshers, though not in large numbers, turned up to get a feel of their new alma mater. Since most of the teachers too remained absent due to rains and Bed counselling, very few ..
Hill teachers object to Manipur government's decision 16/Jul/2011
A teachers association in Manipur on Saturday objected to state government's decision bringing elementary schools in hill districts under autonomous district councils and threatened to call a strike if it was not withdrawn. "The government decision was to degrade the status of education in the state ..

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