Education News in India

Student unrest over fee hike hits Visva Bharati 24/Jul/2010
Students of Visva Bharati, the university set up by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, have been on an indefinite strike since the past six days protesting a hike in tuition fees. The varsity authorities Friday held talks with studentsâ€™ representatives but failed to break the impasse. ..
178 high schools being upgraded 23/Jul/2010
As many as 178 high schools in the districts of Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur and Kasaragod are being upgraded as higher secondary schools. Speaking on behalf of the Education Minister in the Assembly on Friday, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs M. ..
Students can now use scratch cards for reading books online 23/Jul/2010
Students may now find reason enough to get into the habit f reading and get more enthusiastic about referring to text books. Macmillan India imprint Full Marks has launched a website, especially for students of class VI-XII having to follow NCERT books in their curriculum. The real interest lies elsewhere...
Mangalayatan University and Educomp, announce a strategic collaboration 23/Jul/2010
Educomp Solutions Ltd, company has entered into a strategic collaboration with Mangalayatan University (MU), a leading private university in India, to enhance the practical skills of the universityâ€™s graduates and prepare them for employment in several high growth sectors of the economy. ..
Velammal College inaugurates Virtual Instrumentation Centre 23/Jul/2010
National Instruments and Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, signed a MoU to establish a Centre of Excellence in Virtual Instrumentation in the presence of Jayaram Pillai, Managing Director India, Russia and Arabia, National Instruments and M.V. Muthuramalingam, Chairman, Velammal Educational Trust, Chennai. ..
Second-rung B schools churning out unemployable graduates 23/Jul/2010
'India, currently, is undergoing a huge metamorphosis in the education sector. Right from primary education being made compulsory and free, to the number of institutes and universities mushrooming all over the country, the Indian education system is fast gaining momentum towards effective development. In ..
Premier national law schools are now open to transgenders 23/Jul/2010
In uplifting transgender to the mainstream,the reputed law schools in India have decided to include 'Others' category in application forms from the next year. This is a perfect instance where premier educational institutes acknowledge their difference. No mention of Transgenders in the application form ..
Exclusive portion on classical Tamil from second semester: Ponmudy 22/Jul/2010
From the second semester onwards, the prose section in Tamil will have a portion exclusively dealing with classical Tamil, Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy said on Wednesday. Talking to reporters after discussing the modalities with Vice-Chancellors of arts and science colleges, he said: “It has ..
Draft law unveiled for Innovation Universities' 22/Jul/2010
Breaking free of conventional higher education concepts, the Manmohan Singh government has taken the first step towards implementing its proposal for creating 14 ‘Innovation Universities' by circulating draft legislation for comment by various stakeholders. The Innovation Universities are aimed at ..
No detention of students till Class VIII 23/Jul/2010
No student in the State can henceforth be detained till he or she completes Class VIII. A Government Order dated July 12, 2010, states: “No child shall be held back in any class or expelled from school till the completion of elementary education in a school.” It comes in the ..

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