Education News in India

Anna varsity shifts exam centre from Pune to Mumbai 14/Aug/2009
Chennai: Due to swine flu threat, Anna Varsity MBA distance education exam centre shifted from Pune to Mumbai, which was scheduled on Aug,16th The outbreak of swine flu in Pune- Maharashtra has forced authorities of the Anna University (Chennai) to shift its scheduled examination centre for MBA distance ..
Pondy varsity to hold community outreach programmes 14/Aug/2009
Puducherry: Pondicherry Varsity plans to hold community outreach extension programmes to promote education and self employment in rural areas The projects would include popularising pre-primary education in rural areas by training educated unemployed women from villages and backward areas and also to ..
IITs must act as catalyst to boost technical education: Sibal 13/Aug/2009
New Delhi: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal today said the country's premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) must focus on quality research and act as a catalyst to boost technical education in India. At IIT-Delhi's convocation ceremony, the minister said: "The great challenge ..
Fourteen Varsities to go world-class 13/Aug/2009
New Delhi: Totally fourteen proposed Innovation Universities are trying to attain world-class standards, will now set new standards in higher education either in academics or autonomy. According to Human Resource Department (HRD), the admissions to undergraduate classes in these universities will be ..
Expert committee to look after minority colleges 13/Aug/2009
The university grants commission (UGC) has appointed an expert committee to look into various issues, including the functioning of minority colleges, said its member Rev. Xavier Alphonse. Talking to mediapersons on Tuesday, he said the federation ..
Put special focus on SC/STs - SC ordered IIT 13/Aug/2009
Reminding the government of its duty to provide special care to reserved category students in higher educational institutions, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered IIT-Delhi to reconsider the expulsion of SC/ST students on account of poor performance. A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and ..
JK wants English medium school to compete with world 13/Aug/2009
Batalik: To keep pace with rest of the country and compete with the world outside, students in Batalik, a nondescript village in Jammu and Kashmir rattled by Pakistani shelling during the Kargil war, want a English medium school where they hone their talents. 'We want an English medium public school here so that ..
Kalam conquers youths 13/Aug/2009
Coimbatore:'Remove nuclear weapons from the earth and remove poverty by generating employment'- this was the watchword to the youths from Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. Speaking at the Super Congress 09, an international festival for world peace, Kalam said that poverty is our greatest enemy. 'Youth power, if ..
Distance education Ph. Ds lost value for job 13/Aug/2009
Chennai:M.Phil and Ph.D through distance education mode are no more eligible for government jobs and teaching positions in govt, govt-aided and self financing colleges 'Since the University Grants Commission (UGC) has done away with acquiring of state-level eligibility test, national eligibility test ..
Yashpal committee suggests new apex body for higher education 18/Jun/2009
BANGALORE: The creation of a National Commission for Higher Education and Research that will subsume as many as 13 existing professional councils and regulatory agencies, including the University Grants Commission, the Medical Council of India and the AICTE, is a key recommendation of a committee headed by well-known ..

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