Education News in India

School children confined to room for two days 14/Aug/2011
Twenty children of St. Xavier's English Medium School in Kolhapur were detained in a classroom for two days as punishment for participating in football matches without the permission of the head of the school. The students were allegedly detained on Friday and Saturday during school hours. They were ..
Students shun humanities at university for job-oriented course 14/Aug/2011
Students in Britain are increasingly shunning traditional arts and humanities courses at universities in favor of job-oriented subjects, according to government figures. The numbers of applications to study subjects like law, teaching and accounting at British universities have increased this ..
Union Minister rues commercialization to educational sector in Kerala 14/Aug/2011
Commercialization of the educational sector is coming in the way of nurturing Kerala as an educational hub of the country, Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs K V Thomas, said here today. 'Educational institutions in Kerala have now become centres of trade and commerce. It is true ..
SC to examine 10 per cent quota for poor among forward caste 13/Aug/2011
Kerala government's decision to extend 10 per cent reservation for economically backward class students of the forward community has come under the scanner of the Supreme Court which today agreed to examine the issue. The apex court, however, after a brief hearing, adjourned the matter after one of ..
11 US varsities selected for partnership programmes with India 13/Aug/2011
Eleven prestigious US colleges and universities have been selected for partnership programme with India as part of the Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative. An announcement to this effect came ahead of the scheduled India-US Education Summit in Washington in October. ..
Commercialisation of education cannot be allowed: HC 13/Aug/2011
The Delhi High Court said fee structure has to be kept within bound and schools cannot be permitted to take undue benefits by commercialising the education. "The clear legal position which emerges ..., directly on the issue of revising tuition fee by Delhi schools under the Delhi Education Act, ..
Provision for parents' concurrence to hike fee, illegal: HC 13/Aug/2011
A provision in city government's February 2009 notification, stipulating unaided private schools to hike their fees only with the concurrence of their Parents Teachers Association is illegal, Delhi High Court held. While setting up a three-member panel yesterday to scrutinise the accounts of ..
Punjab govt project runs into rough weather 13/Aug/2011
The Punjab Government's pet project, to provide 1.20 lakh bicycles to girl students on August 15, has been grounded for now, as the chief Gurdwara election commissioner has turned down the request of the government to launch this scheme. The government had decided to give cycles only to ..
100 Pak students in US on undergraduate exchange program 13/Aug/2011
As many as 100 students from Pakistan have arrived in the US on an undergraduate exchange programme, which is part of the Obama Administration's effort to increase people to people contact between the two countries especially with the youths of Pakistan. Launched in Fall 2010, ..
Delhi HC sets up panel to probe govt's 2009 order to hike school fee 13/Aug/2011
The Delhi High Court set up a three-member committee headed by one of its former judges to scrutinise the accounts of various unaided private schools to determine the validity of the city government's February 2009 notification permitting them to hike their tuition fees. The committre will be headed ..

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