Education News in India

MCI creates 4,452 new MBBS seats; 21 new med colleges 1/Jul/2011
Those aspiring to be doctors can now hope for more as the Government has decided to create 4,452 MBBS seats in 21 new medical colleges and increase the number of seats in existing institutions this year. The Medical Council of India has approved 21 new medical colleges at the undergraduate level, ..
Marginal fee hike in three private Medical colleges 1/Jul/2011
Marginal fee hike recommended by the fee fixing committee in few private medical colleges have left them dejected. The fee- fixation committee, headed by former high court judge N V Balasubramanian, has marginally increased the fees in 3 out of the 20 self-financing medical colleges in the state for ..
Kerala CM asks Private Managements to do self introspection 1/Jul/2011
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today wanted CPI-M and Private Self Financing medical college managements to do a self-introspection on their stand on Self Financing College issue. Inter-church Medical Council Managements and other private medical colleges should accept the reality in the wake ..
Jodhpur medical college gets more seats 1/Jul/2011
Union Health Ministry has decided to increase the number of seats in Jodhpur Government Medical College from the current 100 to 150 from this year. The Medical Council of India has already increased 50 seats each in Kota and Bikaner medical colleges. The decision to increase ..
Interdisciplinary studies needed in higher education: Academics 1/Jul/2011
Senior academics today mooted a concept to infuse the culture of interdisciplinary studies in higher educational institutes, to leverage India's chances of creating a skilled and employable global workforce. "Education is all about making men and not craftsmen," Prof. Abhay Pethe, Department of ..
Australia enforces new, tighter immigration rules 1/Jul/2011
Australia's new immigration rules that focus on higher qualification and advance English language skills as requirements for those wanting to migrate to this country, came into effect. The new rules, according to Australian officials, aim to pick up the "best and the brightest" from the ..
Board vs school: A Maha puzzle 1/Jul/2011
Even as uncertainty looms large over the fate of hundreds of CBSE students who have opted out of the board exams but are seeking seats in the state's junior colleges, the government does not have any example to follow. For, most other states do not face such a situation as they have CBSE higher secondary ..
Students leave college wiser, fatter 1/Jul/2011
All work and no play is making city students not only dull but fat. City teenagers going on 17 are carrying not only the heavy burden of parental expectations but extra kilos that they gain in their classrooms. Doctors in the city report that intermediate students are becoming more prone to lifestyle ..
Sukanta happy to be in Presi mentor group 1/Jul/2011
All gossip will be put to rest now. After eminent professor of English literature, Sukanta Chaudhuri, resigned on Tuesday from his position as member of the committee entrusted with reviewing higher education in the state, debate about whether he was unhappy with the functioning of the committee was rife. On Wednesday, ..
Bratya orders probe into 'bias' in appointment 1/Jul/2011
Higher education minister Bratya Basu has ordered an inquiry into a 2005 case of 'dalatantra' pertaining to the appointment former health minister Surjya Kanta Mishra's daughter as a lecturer at Calcutta University. After it was alleged that Mishra's daughter was favoured over a deserving candidate, Basu ..

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