Education News in India

IITs may consider online test for JEE 17/Nov/2011
The Indian Institutes of Technology could be thinking of conducting an online joint entrance examination (JEE), on the lines of the Indian Institutes of Management. While the common admission test (CAT) for entry into IIMs went online three years ago, the IITs are yet to take the big step. The IIT-Delhi, ..
Setting papers will no longer test teachers 16/Nov/2011
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is continuing to take major strides in modernizing various aspects of education in affiliated schools. The central board has now decided to automate the process of generation and delivery of question papers for Std IX and Std X. A new software ..
US university officials visit Nagpur University 16/Nov/2011
Two officials from the Cayuga Community College, New York, visited the Nagpur University on Monday with a view to forge alliance between two institutions. Dean of enrolment and chief international officer Cherryl Anderson and professor emeritus of philosophy Jeffry Delbel met vice-chancellor Vilas Sapkal and registrar ..
Gujarat University, Canadian varsity students interact 16/Nov/2011
A cultural exchange was organized at the department of communication and journalism, Gujarat University on Tuesday. A delegation of 32 students as well as three professors and research scholars from the Royal Roads University of British Columbia, Canada, visited the department. "Development is a subjective concept ..
Schools welcome HC stay on three-language formula 16/Nov/2011
Principals of schools that do not follow the state board welcomed the Bombay high court’s decision to stay two key state government directives. The government orders mandated that non-state board schools follow the three language formula from class I to VIII and implement the state board-prescribed curriculum for ..
Rule was pushed after some other states implemented it 16/Nov/2011
State education officials said that the three-language formula was made compulsory in non-SSC schools in Maharashtra after it had been in force in state board institutions for years. What also prompted the education department to take the step was that the Andhra Pradesh government had passed a similar rule for all ..
Bandra college kids launch virtual fight against fee hike 16/Nov/2011
Students of Thadomal Shahani College of Engineering in Bandra have taken the virtual route to protest against a fee rise. After the institution raised the annual fee of Rs 89, 000 by another Rs 22,476 on November 10, the students created a page on a social networking site and started posting indignant ..
Collegians present their green energy models at international meet 16/Nov/2011
Two student researchers, one from Pune and another from Delhi, presented their green energy models before an international audience in Germany recently. Around 45 students, activists, researchers and journalists from 18 developing countries attended a six-day conference of young environmental envoys held ..
State faces dearth of good B.Tech. teachers 17/Nov/2011
B.Tech. graduates teaching B.Tech. students. This phenomenon is not restricted to new colleges but also exists in established engineering colleges, reflecting the shortage of experienced faculty and its effect on the quality of graduates. Figures talk Three-fourth of the faculty in more than 150 ..
OU sees silver lining with 'Saksham' programme 16/Nov/2011
In news for all the wrong reasons, Osmania University has something to cheer about. It is the only university in the entire South India to have been placed in the ‘sub recipient' category under the ‘Saksham' programme and seven centres of different universities in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala placed ..

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