Education News in India

Tibetans keen to learn English, catch up with 'smart' Indians 12/Sep/2011
Hoping to catch up with their "smart" Indian counterparts, students in Tibetan schools and universities, including those based in villages, are increasingly seeking enrolment in English-learning courses for better jobs prospects in future in mainland China and abroad. Their ..
IFFT head says jobs market looks cloudy this year 12/Sep/2011
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) Director KT Chacko is apprehensive about deepening slowdown in the Western markets even though requests from the domestic companies for campus interviews at the institute have risen so far this year. The looming slowdown may prevent companies from expansion ..
Student bodies opposed to Private Universities Bill 12/Sep/2011
The passage of Private Universities Bill by the Maharashtra legislature last month has evoked adverse reaction from students' associations. During a recent conference at Mumbai University, students as well the associations opposed the bill saying it was passed in a "hurry" ..
Fresh JEE for SC, ST students in Tripura 12/Sep/2011
An all party meeting resolved to conduct a fresh Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates for admission to the vacant seats of the Agartala Govt Medical College (AGMC), official sources said. Two seats for SCs and 27 seats for STs remained vacant ..
Gujarat to foster entrepreneurship amongst youth 12/Sep/2011
Gujarat CM Narendra Modi launched an International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology (iCreate), to encourage youths to turn entrepreneurs, which will be guided by Infosys Chairman Emeritus N R Narayan Murthy. Gandhinagar: Gujarat CM Narendra Modi launched an International Centre for ..
Central University will come up in Kasargod: Ahamed 12/Sep/2011
Minister of state for external affairs E Ahamed today assured that the Central University would be started only in Kasargod district, in the wake of agitations it was likely to be shifted to other districts. Speaking to mediapersons after visiting the site allotted for the university at nearby Periya, he ..
Literacy rate will touch 80 per cent by 2015, hopes Sibal 12/Sep/2011
The government expressed hope that the country's literacy rate will touch 80 per cent by 2015 with the success of programmes like Saakshar Bharat mission. "The average literacy, which is 74 per cent, will reach 80-85 per cent by 2015. This is a big achievement," HRD Minister Kapil Sibal told ..
HC asks education dept to file ATR on students taken to rally 10/Sep/2011
Expressing displeasure at students being taken from a city school to a political rally without informing their parents, the Calcutta High Court directed the West Bengal education department to ensure that such incidents do not recur in future. A pision bench, comprising Chief Justice J N Patel and ..
ISRO gears up for Megha-Tropiques launch 10/Sep/2011
Indian Space Research Organisation is giving final touches for the launch of Megha-Tropiques, an Indo-French advanced tropical climate monitoring satellite, expected to be carried out from the Sriharikota spaceport in a couple of weeks. ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan is slated to ..
Youth must eradicate evils like communal tension, corruption Dr. Kalam 10/Sep/2011
Stating that communal tension was a result of "failure of multiple faiths", former President A P J Abdul Kalam called upon the youth to make the society "compassionate" by actively participating in eradication of corruption and rural development. He also asked religious leaders ..

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