Education News in India

Development Efficient 24/Aug/2011
The CII Young Indians Team of XLRI, Jamshedpur, seeks to provide a platform for young minds to engage in Nation building initiatives. These include socially relevant developmental projects in the areas of education, employability, youth affairs and health. Established in 2008, it already boasts of having undertaken ..
2-year-old children understand complex grammar 25/Aug/2011
Psychologists at the University of Liverpool have found that children as young as two years old have an understanding of complex grammar even before they have learned to speak in full sentences. Researchers at the University's Child Language Study Centre showed children, aged two, sentences containing ..
Passion to find out? 24/Aug/2011
“Our goal is to promote awareness of the realities of life as a researcher as well as encouraging active participation in research and mentoring by local faculty prior to application to graduate programmes,” says Carolyn Penstein Rosé. She has spearheaded the development of the ..
39 colleges hastily directed to offer postgraduate courses 24/Aug/2011
The State Government “in a hurry” has instructed 39 government degree colleges in the State to offer postgraduate courses from the academic year 2011-12. Sources in the Department of Collegiate Education and some government colleges told The Hindu that the government's decision had landed some ..
Girl students forced to clean school toilets 24/Aug/2011
A shocking incident of forcing girl students to clean school toilets has come to light in a government middle school in a village near here. Reports in local evening newspapers here on Tuesday claimed that some girl students of the Thondipalayam Government Middle School near Konkanapuram were caught on ..
Nearly 28,000 Plus-Two students to get free laptops 24/Aug/2011
Nearly 28,000 Plus-Two students of 152 schools in the city will receive free laptops in the first phase of distribution this academic year. Officials of the departments of School Education, Collegiate Education and Technical Education and from Anna University on Tuesday participated in the first meeting ..
SC to hear PIL for excluding affluent among SC & ST from quota 24/Aug/2011
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a PIL seeking to bring "advanced and affluent" Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes out of the purview of reservation and sought a response from the Centre and all state governments on this issue. A bench headed by Justice R V Raveendran issued notices to the ..
President of a top US university to visit India 24/Aug/2011
Ahead of the India-US Education Summit in October, the president of a top American university would be visiting various Indian cities later this month to explore the possibilities of new academic partnerships. "This trip to India is very important to the university as we continue to raise our ..
Professors appointed as students' guardians to check ragging 24/Aug/2011
To check the menace of ragging, a medical college here has appointed professors as the local guardians of freshers. "In all, 19 professors have been given the responsibility to guard 190 students," Principal of Ganesh Shankar Medical College (GSVS) Dr Anand Swarup told. ..
MARG scientists to be part of EU's Marie Curie scheme 24/Aug/2011
Young scientists and experts from Manipal Advanced Research Group (MARG) and Centre for Atomic and Molecular Physics (CAMP), Manipal University, will participate in the prestigious European Union (EU)-sponsored international Marie Curie research scheme. The joint research programme ..

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