Education News in India

Time for a rejig? 5/Sep/2011
Over the past few years the concept of affiliation of colleges to a university has increasingly fallen out of favour with many in academia. To some it has almost become a dirty word, synonymous with the stifling inertia of a university's bureaucracy and indeed with almost everything that is wrong with the higher ..
IELTS initiative to recognise excellence 5/Sep/2011
Recognised by over 6000 institutes in 135 countries, International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is taken by 1.4 million candidates every year. A starting point for students aspiring to go overseas for higher education, IELTS has been available for over 20 years now. Since last year, the British ..
Campus connect 5/Sep/2011
Food for thought As part of the `Food and Nutrition Day', Stella Maris College has plans to organise a year-long awareness on the growing crisis of food insecurity and the need for environmental safety. Among students, the importance of nutritious consumption will be spread. On day one, the students took ..
Madras University to play a key role in DRDO's biodefence project 5/Sep/2011
The National Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of the University of Madras will play a key role in the National Biodefence programme of the Defence Research and Development Organisation , said W. Selvamurthy, Chief Controller (R&D), DRDO. Delivering the inaugural address at the national ..
Paramedical courses from DMDSC 5/Sep/2011
Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Education Academy , a unit of Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre (DMDSC) will offer a slew of medical and paramedical courses in the allopathic stream of medicine. Postdoc fellowships The two-year fellowship in Diabetology course is open to candidates with a pass in MBBS ..
A different flavour to CAT 5/Sep/2011
The popular notion - it is easier for an engineering graduate to crack the Common Admission Test (CAT) - the gateway to the 13 IIMS and most reputed business schools of the country - might soon become history. Come this October, thousands of aspiring management professionals across the country will take the test, most ..
DUTA unhappy with new DU course 5/Sep/2011
Delhi University's decision to have a Cluster Innovation Centre for a four-year B. Tech programme on innovation in mathematics and information technology has not been welcomed from all quarters of the recently elected Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA). “When we asked the university ..
Grants for educational institutions to use renewable energy 5/Sep/2011
The Central Government is now offering grants to educational institutions that adopt renewable energy to meet their power requirements. The grants would meet nearly half of the project cost. Several institutions in southern districts of Tamil Nadu have already begun installation of power plants to join the project.<br ..
Clarification from Minister for Information Technology 4/Sep/2011
In response to the story ‘Free Laptops not to have Open Source Software – ELCOT modifies specifications to cut costs' published in Page 2 on September 3, 2011, Tamil Nadu Minister for Information Technology R.B. Udhayakumar says: “I would like to bring to your kind notice that ..
Graduates urged to follow in leaders' footsteps 4/Sep/2011
Former Member of Parliament Era. Sezhiyan has appealed to graduates to follow in the footsteps of leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, who adopted ethical principles in public life. He was delivering the convocation address at the 26th annual convocation of VIT University here on Saturday. ..

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