Education News in India

MOU signed with centre for strengthening statistics mechanism 10/Aug/2011
The state government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Centre for strengthening the statistics apparatus in Bihar. The MOU was signed by the Centre's Ministry of Statistics Joint Secretary Arvind Kumar and the Principal Secretary (Planning and Development) of the Bihar government ..
IIT entrance: Govt may consider giving 3 chances to aspirants 10/Aug/2011
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said that the government will consider giving students three attempts to clear IIT entrance exam against the two chances being given to them currently. Sibal also batted for an education system where teacher is no longer the repository of knowledge...
SC on govt-run school facilities 10/Aug/2011
The Supreme Court expressed anguish that states have failed to ensure basic facilities like adequate potable water and toilet in government-run schools in the country. "It is unfortunate that our orders have not been complied with", the bench remarked while granting time to states and ..
Govt to set up six AIIMS-like medical institutes 10/Aug/2011
The government intends to set up six AIIMS-like medical institutions in different states and Rs 847 crores have been released so far for them. Stating this in the Rajya Sabha in reply to a written question, Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the government has set a ..
Students have right to inspect answer-sheets under RTI: SC 10/Aug/2011
The examinees have a right to inspect answer-sheets under the transparency law, the Supreme Court ruled. The evaluated answer-sheets are covered under the definition of the "information" under the Right to Information Act, a bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik said.<br ..
Hat-trick of delays: Most FYJC colleges to start only by mid-Aug 9/Aug/2011
It’s the second week of August, but first-year junior college (FYJC) lectures across almost all city colleges have yet to begin, with more than 5,000 students still waiting to be assigned a seat. Principals are worried that with another list scheduled to be announced on August 12, before offline admissions begin ..
Nod of parents, teachers must to hike fees 9/Aug/2011
Schools will need to compulsorily seek the consent of parents and teachers before hiking fees. Five days after the legislative assembly approved a Bill tabled by the school education department for regulating school fee hikes, the legislative council approved it on Monday. Faujiya Khan, minister of state, ..
Varsity bill tabled 9/Aug/2011
"The Self-Financed Universities Bill, which was tabled in the legislative assembly on Monday, will clear the decks for private varsities in the engineering, management, technology, and business-commerce faculties," minister for higher and technical education Rajesh Tope said. "It vests varsities with ..
Modern College gets digital library 8/Aug/2011
Students of the Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce will now get access to over 30 lakh e-books, research papers, e-text books and international journals, thanks to the newly-established digital library. The Ganeshkhind campus of the college has received a grant of Rs 15 lakh for this digital library from the ..
Common syllabus, curriculum will help achieve RTE objectives 10/Aug/2011
A common syllabus and common curriculum is required to achieve the objectives of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, to provide free and compulsory education to every child of 6 to 14 years, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday. Dismissing a batch of appeals filed by the Tamil Nadu government and others ..

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