Education News in India

Sibal favours common entrance for admission into varsities 19/Jun/2010
Critical about holding of multiplee ntrance exams for admission into higher educational institutions, HRD Minister Sibal pitched for uniform entrance test. To start with, the CBSE, a premier school education board under the HRD Ministry, will merge the All India Engineering Entrance Exam and All India ..
Educational finance corpus inching towards reality 19/Jun/2010
A proposal to set up an initial corpus of Rs.5,500 crore to provide cheaper educational and institutional loans got strong backing from the states on Friday. Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said that all states have welcomed the proposal. He was talking to reporters after a meeting ..
Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Social Work to start next month 19/Jun/2010
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is all set to establish the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Social Work in Mokokchung district in ..
Sibal unveils ambitious insurance scheme for 60 lakh teachers 19/Jun/2010
An ambitious scheme to provide 60 lakh teachers life and health insurance and a vocational education framework are among a 10-point agenda unveiled by government today to make education a quality affair. Starting an institute for quality control in school education in the country and merging ..
Education Ministers oppose hiking college, univ teachers retirement age 19/Jun/2010
Education Ministers of several states today expressed their reservations against raising the retirement age of college and university teachers to 65 and demanded the superannuation issue be delinked from the composite package offered by the Centre to the states. The Sixth Pay Revision for ..
National institute to be set up to evaluate school education 18/Jun/2010
Government today announced plans for setting up a National Institute for Assessment which would evaluate curriculum and education standards at school level in different states and suggest measure to improve them. Addressing the state education ministers conference here, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal ..
Cabinet nod for CSIR Academy 18/Jun/2010
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is all set to start an Academy that will enable it award post-graduate and doctoral degrees from this year without spending a single paisa on capital expenditure. The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today, approved the CSIR ..
Expansion plans 18/Jun/2010
Aakash Educational Services Ltd announced their expansion plans in eastern India on June 17. JC Chaudhry, founder and managing director of Aakash Educational Services Ltd, was present to inaugurate their new campus. The medical and engineering entrance exam-coaching centre ..
Chandigarh to introduce feedback system in colleges 18/Jun/2010
In a bid to improve the quality of teaching in this union territory (UT), colleges will introduce from this academic session a feedback system in which students can evaluate their teachers, officials said here Friday. "Taking feedback from students is quite essential to improve the quality of ..
Major education reforms bills to be discussed at CABE 18/Jun/2010
Two major education reforms bills, one for setting up of an overarching regulatory body in higher education and another for starting an electronic databank of academic degrees, will come for discussion at a high-level advisory body on Saturday. The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE), which has ..

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