Education News in India

Kapil Sibal moots core curriculum for Maths, Science 25/Aug/2009
New Delhi: Inaugurating the Council of Boards of School Education (COBSE) conference here today, Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister, Kapil Sibal said, 'How can all Boards move towards having a core curriculum in Mathematics and Science in the next three years, so that we have a critical mass of people ..
New block at IIT Delhi 25/Aug/2009
New Delhi: A new academic block would be soon erected in the campus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D) to accommodate the rising number of students at the apex institute. The six-storey block will have state-of-the-art lecture halls with a capacity of accommodating 250 students. The ..
IISc India's No. 1 tech institute 25/Aug/2009
Bangalore: IISc has been ranked the number one engineering/technology institute among top 67 science institutes in the country. IIT-Kanpur comes in at second place, followed by IIT-Bombay, IIT-Kharagpur and Delhi at third, fourth and fifth position respectively. The ranking, published in the Current Science, has ..
Plus two marks may play crucial role for IIT 25/Aug/2009
Chennai: In addition to performance in the JEE, Plus Two marks are likely to become a decisive factor for admission into the IITs by 2011. In a few months time, a pan-IIT committee, formed by the Union human resource development ministry to suggest reforms to JEE (Joint Entrance Examination), is expected to ..
Knowledge of Hindi, English necessary for integration: Sibal 25/Aug/2009
New Delhi: Sibal strongly batted for teaching Hindi and English in all schools across the country, saying fluency in both the languages will help the students to integrate better ' Our education system should change from MOTS (More of the Same) to HOTS (High Order Thinking Skills). We should create knowledge ..
Education with a difference 24/Aug/2009
Deutsche Welle, Germany’s state-run international broadcaster is all set to position itself as a provider of high value educational content on the television as well as on the radio. Signing up with IT@School ViCTERS, the educational channel of the Kerala government’s Department of Education, to allow Indian ..
Technology shows the way 24/Aug/2009
A new survey of India’s school children shows that ‘The Web 2.0 Generation’ are digital natives, who are highly technology savvy, global in terms of aspirations and outlook and increasingly optimistic about India’s economic future. The survey was conducted by IT solutions provider Tata ..
IP Univ looks into Delhi water crisis 24/Aug/2009
The Centre for Disaster Management (CDM) at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) recently conducted a workshop on 'Water Crisis Management' at its newly constructed campus in Dwarka, Sector 16. The campus will be operational within the next six months. The workshop explored the role of ..
Ignou symposium on leveraging ICT 24/Aug/2009
The mounting presence of information and communication technology (ICT) initiatives in the higher education landscape has propelled the relevance of open educational resources (OER), which simplify the search for inputs on a particular subject. Through an OER it is possible to get multiple inputs from various ..
Khalsa College offers new courses 24/Aug/2009
In view of the fact that India is hosting the 2010 Commonwealth Games, there is an immediate need for trained professionals in the area of sports management. In order to meet the growing demand for sports managers, Khalsa College, DU, has launched a course in 'Sports Economics and Marketing' for both students and ..

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