Education News in India

Student visa policy not being changed - Australia 10/Jul/2010
Australia on Wednesday said it is not changing its student visa policy and there are no plans to cap the number of foreign students studying in the country. The Australian High Commission issued a statement after media reports stated that around 15,000 Indian students could be forced to return after the ..
Asians top high school entrance test in Australia 10/Jul/2010
'Children of Asian migrants outperform their English-speaking counterparts in the entrance test of selective top high schools in Australia. Analysis shows that 42 percent of children from non-English speaking backgrounds who sat for the annual selective high school entrance test in 2009 won a place in the ..
No fear of losing IIT teachers to foreign varsities' 10/Jul/2010
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Friday dispelled fears that allowing foreign universities in the country will result in attrition of teachers from premier institutes like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). "The attrition rate in IITs is zero," Sibal said at a seminar ..
Chinese parents oppose internet use by children 10/Jul/2010
Many parents in China are not in favor of their children using the internet and a majority of them worry that surfing the net could adversely affect children's studies, a study has said. Around 42.6 percent of parents surveyed "strongly oppose their children's use of internet" or ..
Govt to set up 2500 public-private partnership schools 10/Jul/2010
With the objective of providing education of excellent quality for rural and distant regions, the central government on Friday made the decision to establish more secondary schools in public-private partnership (PPP) in 2,500 blocks all over India. The initiative by the government is a first of its kind ..
New VC for Mumbai University 10/Jul/2010
Rajan M Welukar was today appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of the University of Mumbai. A former VC of Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University, Welukar holds a PhD degree in statistics and has 25 years of teaching experience, an official ..
NCTE asked to take action against ineffective institutions 10/Jul/2010
The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) was directed by Punjab and Haryana High Court to take action against profit-oriented institutes that have been ineffective in delivering quality education. The court granted students to seek exemplary costs from one such institution and questioned the NCTE ..
Malaysia to recruit more Tamil teacher 10/Jul/2010
The Malaysian government plans to recruit more Tamil and Chinese language teachers from next year to fully implement its Pupils Own Language (POL) policy in 7,000 ..
Off to America 9/Jul/2010
The room at USEIF was packed for the pre-departure seminar on July 10. The students present got a chance to interact with visa officers, alumni and those studying in the US. The question-and-answer sessions were scintillating. Initially shy, the students opened up with queries ..
VIT students launch rocket in a joint effort with ISRO 9/Jul/2010
Students of VIT in collaboration with ISRO successfully launched an advanced sounding rocket RH-200 here on Wednesday from the space station at Thumba. According to a Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) statement, the rocket was successfully launched at 3.50 p.m. and achieved its intended altitude of 60 ..

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