Education News in India

London calling 20/Jul/2010
Six high school students from Delhi Public School (DPS) Megacity, Kolkata are all set to visit London and participate at the Battle of Ideas Festival 2010, a two-day event of high-level, thought-provoking debate organized by the Institute of Ideas and hosted by the Royal College of Art, London on October 30-31. ..
WB govt working on OBC quota in higher education 20/Jul/2010
The state government is taking steps to introduce reservation for students belonging to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in higher educational institutions, as decided upon in principle earlier, higher education minister Sudarshan Roychowdhury said in the Assembly. The OBC reservation would be announced in ..
IIM Kozhikode organises a Youth Leadership Summit 20/Jul/2010
IIM Kozhikode recently conducted a new initiative to nurture young talent in order to create global leaders. National Leadership Foundation in collaboration with IIM K and with the support of TalentBridge organized a three day Youth Leadership Summit 'SMILO' - Self Mastery and Life in an Organization. The leadership ..
Edify Edu plans 8 schools in Gujarat 20/Jul/2010
Hyderabad-based Edify Education, which aims to start 50 schools across the country by 2015, has announced its plans to start eight schools in the state, with an aim to provide international education. The group is assessing locations like Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Anand, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Porbandar, ..
CBSE to offer filmmaking course in Class XI-XII 20/Jul/2010
Taking forward HRD minister Kapil Sibal's drive to involve private sector in education, CBSE on Monday signed MoUs with filmmaker Subhash Ghai's Whistling Woods International to teach film and media studies and with Rolta India for geospatial technologies. Both the courses will be taught at Class XI and ..
Shiv Nadar conferred with Honorary Doctorate by IIT-K 20/Jul/2010
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur awarded the Honoris Causa Doctorate of Science (D. Sc.) to Shiv Nadar, Founder, HCL and Chairman, HCL Technologies and Shiv Nadar Foundation - for his outstanding contribution to computer hardware and software domain in the country. The award was ..
Education department raises the bar for SSLC students 20/Jul/2010
The district education department is on a mission. Setting the bar at its highest, they are concentrating on making sure that the district which was in the 15th position in SSLC exams should be in the first position the next time. The department has started a process to increase the learning ability of the students of ..
A case of power overloading' 19/Jul/2010
Will the proposed National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER), which is set to subsume apex regulatory bodies such as UGC, AICTE and NCTE, emerge as an authoritarian body to control all academic initiatives in the country and undermine the autonomy of higher education institutions? ..
Head-hunters back on the prowl 20/Jul/2010
Hiring seems to be gaining momentum across all sectors thanks to the nation's economic turnaround post-downturn. Five-lakh jobs are likely to have been created in the organised sector in the first half of the year, with almost 3.5 lakh in the second quarter. The recovery from economic recession has added ..
Be the guardians of the forests 20/Jul/2010
Many youngsters consider the Indian Forest Service a grave challenge, anxious about a frightening environment involving physical hazards and risk to life, not to mention the absence of sophisticated urban comforts. This is the negative side of a bright picture. Old traditions in India considered ..

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