Education News in India

Parents, teachers pin for return of cane in classrooms in UK 17/Sep/2011
Parents and teachers overwhelmingly want to bring back the cane in schools in Britain complaining that the classrooms have turned unruly. The vast majority of them are also pinning for back-to-basics discipline measures including detention, expulsion and forcing badly behaved children to write lines.<br ..
Women's career choices swayed by sex hormone: Study 17/Sep/2011
Parents please note: You may want your daughter to be a scientists, doctor or an engineer. But, a new study suggests her career choice largely depends on the hormones she was exposed to as a foetus. Psychologists at Pennsylvania State University found that girl children exposed to high rates of a male ..
IGNOU to launch diploma in child rights 16/Sep/2011
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) announced it will soon launch a one-year diploma course on child rights. The one-year diploma course, to be started by IGNOU's School of Law (SOL) in collaboration with child rights NGO PRAYAS, is designed to offer specialised training on issues of the ..
CBI team visits Aligarh Muslim University 16/Sep/2011
A team of CBI officials visited the campus of Aligarh Muslim University and questioned some senior officials in connection with the ongoing probe by the agency against Vice-Chancellor Abdul Aziz. Professor Aziz was out of town when the CBI officials visited the campus yesterday, University sources ..
Maharashtra assures stern action in bogus school enrollment case 16/Sep/2011
Maharashtra Rural Development Minister Jayant Patil said stern action would be taken against concerned officials, who forged the number of students in Nanded district to get more government funds. Addressing a press conference here, he said apart from the students, 3,500 pisions and ..
Ragging still rampant; college fresher attacked 16/Sep/2011
In a case of ragging, an 18-year-old student suffered serious leg fractures and multiple injuries in the campus of a private engineering college in Rau near here, police said. The incident took place at the Institute of Science and Technology after the college break when a group of ..
Dikshit asks minority communities to focus on modern education 16/Sep/2011
Seeking reform in Madrasas, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit called upon minority communities to focus on modern education and exhorted them to take "optimum benefit" of the Right to Education Act. Describing the RTE as a major initiative of the UPA government to bring about reform in the ..
Kids without 9 hours sleep a night suffer at school 16/Sep/2011
Children who don't get nine hours of good night's sleep are more likely to have poor communication skills and struggle with basic maths, a new study has claimed. Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, found that children who are deprived of adequate sleep in the night were less able ..
Several education bills pending due to oppostion's non-cooperation: Sibal 16/Sep/2011
Hitting out at the opposition, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said 13 Bills on higher education could not be passed in the Monsoon Session of Parliament due to disruptions, which amounted to "punishing" the students. The Bills included those relating to awarding degrees to pass-out students like the ..
IIT council proposes pan-India common entrance test 15/Sep/2011
The council of IITs proposed a pan-India common entrance test for admission to engineering programmes possibly from 2013. After a meeting of the council which stretched for over five hours, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, however, said the concurrence of the Central Advisory Board of Education and state ..

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