Education News in India

Mobile Schooling 7/Sep/2011
Save the Children, an NGO, which works for the development of underprivileged children, and AVIVA launched their collaborative project, Mobile Learning Centres. This concept aims to reach out to those children who do not have access to schools and institutions, and for various reasons have not had the opportunity to ..
Principals get government to review online system 7/Sep/2011
College principals finally went official with their complaint about doing away with online admissions. Representatives of the principals’ association met school education minister Rajendra Darda, urging him to scrap the online process for junior college admissions from next year. After the meeting, ..
The Silver Celebration 7/Sep/2011
MENTAID association celebrated its silver jubilee recently, with a service in St Paul’s Cathedral along with performances by the students of the organisation and a sale of products made by the students. The association started 25 years back as a small emotional support group for parents of differently-abled ..
All you need is just two rooms to start a school 8/Sep/2011
Tucked away in a commercial complex on Malleshpalya Main Road in east Bangalore is a school run by a private trust. Claiming to enjoy government recognition, the school is in a two-floor building on a small plot. It has classes up to the Standard 5 and admits about 25 students in each class. The fee is Rs. 500 a month. ..
TN govt doubles prize money for medal winners 7/Sep/2011
As part of its efforts to encourage differently abled, the Tamil Nadu govt announced rewarding such persons topping Classes 10 and 12 Board exams with cash prize of a maximum of Rs 12,000 and Rs 18,000. "From this year onwards, students with speech and hearing disablities in ..
Orissa HC rejects DAV schools' fee hike proposals 7/Sep/2011
A Decision bench of the Orissa High Court rejected four petitions filed by the state's different DAV Schools challenging the decision of a single-judge bench which had ruled that there shall not be any fee hike by any private schools in the state arbitrarily. The Bench of Chief Justice V Gopala ..
IL&FS Education signs pact with IGNOU 7/Sep/2011
IL&FS signed a pact with IGNOU for partnership in their education and skill programme in a variety of skilled areas. IL&FS Education is a set up to offer services in the education and technology solutions for learning resources development and capacity building. The ..
Growth back on agenda of IT outsourcing providers: Gartner 7/Sep/2011
Growth is back on the agenda for IT outsourcing (ITO) providers, according to a survey by IT research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. Sixty-two per cent of respondents identified growth as the top strategic goal this year, with aggressive marketing plans and nvestments in cloud, utility ..
IT cos kick-start campus hiring, plan to recruit 2.5L 6/Sep/2011
Tech titans have kick-started their campus recruitment process. On plans are to recruit nearly 2.5 lakh engineering graduates from across the country’s campuses this year. Last year, offers were made to nearly 2 lakh students. Campus recruitment, which usually happens in the last semester, has been advanced to the ..
Jeffrey Archer of India 6/Sep/2011
Amish Tripathi, bestselling author of The Immortals of Meluha, the first installment of the Shiva Trilogy, launched his second offering, The Secret of the Nagas, at Starmark, South City Mall, in association with Westland, recently in town. Actor and producer, Arindam Sil, was there to launch the book, while Rimi B ..

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