Education News in India

India has a long way to go in education 4/Aug/2010
PM Manmohan Singh said India has a "long way to go" in spreading literacy, adding that paucity of funds will not be allowed to hamper the spread of education in the country. "We still have a very long way to go (in spreading education)," Manmohan Singh said, referring to ..
International Conference on Hydro-science and Engineering opens at .. 2/Aug/2010
As climate change could induce torrential downpour and sea level rise, there was a need to think globally and act locally in river basin management combining science and professionalism, said N. Tamai, president, International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). Inaugurating ..
Fewer takers for IT course 2/Aug/2010
Mechanical Engineering has been the course of choice for students at the counselling for engineering admissions in the State with 93.57 per cent of the 16,568 available seats filled. While 88.47 per cent of the seats in Civil Engineering and 85.21 per cent of the seats in Electronics and Communication ..
Student dropouts affect CBSE schools 3/Aug/2010
Many schools following the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) stream of study in the State witnessed a unique phenomenon of student dropout this year. Unlike in the past, many students left the CBSE schools for State stream after their Class X. Many others who continue in the CBSE for higher secondary ..
The UPSC route to the Railways 3/Aug/2010
After all is said and done, engineering continues to be a desirable profession for several youngsters. Despite the mushrooming of engineering colleges in our country, many aspirants find it hard to secure seats in their desired disciplines and their desired institutions. There are instances of engineering graduates ..
The academic dimension of animation and visual art 3/Aug/2010
Animation, gaming and visual effects were always considered application-based skills, but the director of arts, design and humanities, Gylndwr University, Sion Hughes, says it also has an academic dimension integral to it. Mr Hughes was in Chennai to assess and evaluate the final-year graduates of Image ..
Gitanjali Devashray hosts debate, quiz contest 3/Aug/2010
Gitanjali Devashray, the nodal school for the Secunderabad cluster of the climate EduXchange India Programme being implemented together by TERI and Dell, hosted the city level competitions of debate and quiz. Children from about 12 schools participated in the city finals and debated if political will is more important ..
Can we have a classroom that does not have a class distinction? 3/Aug/2010
Do upper middle class people in a city believe that the quality of their child's education is compromised when they share classroom space with the children of construction labourers or domestic workers? This fundamental question is at the heart of the heated debate on a clause in the Right to Free and ..
Govt is shirking responsibility, say activists 3/Aug/2010
Much is being made of one clause in the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2010, that reserves 25 per cent seats in schools to children from disadvantaged sections. Several academics, however, feel that the core issue is that the RTE missed a big opportunity to strengthen the public education system and put in ..
Quality does not mean exclusion here 3/Aug/2010
The Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) schools have always had in place a system of education that combine ideals of quality education and access to all without discrimination. Very often, children of Group D government employees and jawans study along with those of senior officials in KV schools. V. Meenakshi, ..

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