Education News in India

Parent trap 24/Aug/2009
As a parent, you want to provide your child with the best, and hence, it becomes vital to plan every detail of his or her career. However, often, this long-term planning is merely parents attempting to fulfil their unrealised dreams, which can be detrimental to a child's success. Minnu Bhonsle lists some dos and ..
Punjab to revamp collegiate education 24/Aug/2009
To facilitate the spread of quality education in the rural areas, the Punjab Government today decided to open degree colleges in all the rural development blocks within the next two Five Year Plans. A decision to this effect was taken by the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in a meeting held here to ..
ICRISAT to set up international distance learning centre 24/Aug/2009
The joint initiative is aimed at creating opportunities to develop and strengthen regionally relevant education and training programmes. The distance learning unit called University of Florida-ICRISAT International Distance Education Centre (UF-ICRISA T-IDEC) is based at ICRISAT headquarters in Patancheru, Andhra ..
The problem of plenty 24/Aug/2009
The reported decision of the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) not to allow any teachers’ training colleges for the 2010-11 sessions in 12 States including Kerala is being viewed here with relief in government circles. Alarmed over the exponential growth of B.Ed. colleges in Kerala, the State ..
When the chips are down 24/Aug/2009
I have never looked at teaching as a profession. It is something I worship and for me it’s like going to a temple,” says Dipak C. Jain, Dean of Kellogg School of Management, turning the pages of his telephone diary where bits of papers, visiting cards and currencies find a place. True to his first ..
New Arrivals 24/Aug/2009
•JIPMER, Puducherry, has invited applications for D.M. courses and fellowships in diabetology. Download application form and prospectus from www.ipmer.edu and apply before September 12. •The Kerala Institute of Tourism and Travel Studies (KITTS) ..
Canada: a favourite destination for many 24/Aug/2009
Canada is a great country with a relatively low population and large size. There are six time zones, and both English and French are the official languages. There are over 90 universities, and most of them maintain a fine quality. The tuition fees are in general less than those in the U.S. There are several ..
Private institutions under the spotlight 24/Aug/2009
Educationist and activist of the Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishad R.V.G. Menon has been a vocal critic of the seat-fee agreement arrived at between managements of self-financing professional colleges and the government. He argues in this interview that the government should focus its energies and funds on the public ..
ISRO, NASA to search ice on Moon 24/Aug/2009
Washington: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) will attempt a novel joint experiment that could yield more information on whether ice exists in a permanently shadowed crater near the North Pole of the Moon. Currently, the ISRO's Chandrayaan-1 ..
Ignou symposium on leveraging ICT 24/Aug/2009
New Delhi: 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 ..

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