Education News in India

School enrollment and girl-child education drive 15/Jun/2012
Gujarat government has launched a three-day school enrollment and girl-child education drive. Addressing teachers and parents via video conference upon the commencement of the drive, Chief Minister Narendra Modi said the schools were like temples, and it was the responsibility of ..
Probe ordered into JPSC-II exams 15/Jun/2012
Jharkhand High Court directed the CBI to investigate selection of candidates through the second combined examination conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Examination (JPSC) a few years ago. Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the second JPSC examinations, a division bench of justices R K ..
RBI Allows prepaid cards for payment of school and college fees 15/Jun/2012
To make life easier for people, the Reserve Bank allowed holders of pre-paid payment cards, to deposits school and college fees and pay taxes in addition to buying rail and air tickets within the prescribed limit of Rs 10,000. The pre-paid cards, which are convenient alternatives to cash and ..
IIM-Shillong only official invitee at UN Earth Summit at Rio 15/Jun/2012
Indian Institute of Management, Shillong is the only educational institution in the country to participate as an official invitee at the UN Earth Summit scehduled to begin from June 15 at Brazil's capital Rio de Janerio. Prof Sanjeeb Kakoty is the lone academic from India who was selected to the ..
BBMP run education institutions face inadequate infrastructure 15/Jun/2012
The common thread running through the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)-run education institutions, it is lack of adequate facilities. The 146 institutions, including primary schools and pre-university colleges, are now being offered up for adoption. B. Govindaraju, chairperson of Standing ..
First aid responder training workshops in city schools 14/Jun/2012
Ziqitza Health Care (ZHL), the firm that partners with the government in offering the 108 ambulance service, will conduct ‘First aid responder training workshops' in city schools this academic year. The programme had been drawn up in connection with the second anniversary of the company's operations ..
Australia to partner Indian institutions to offer vocational courses 14/Jun/2012
Australia is looking to partner with Indian institutions to offer vocational courses while encouraging students to go over to that country for university programmes in general and for postgraduate programmes in particular. This was stated by High Commissioner of Australia to India Peter N. Varghese here ..
Social awareness through Textbooks 14/Jun/2012
The agony of a father searching for his son who migrated for work and feelings of Dhoni's World Cup winning team finding place in school textbooks may sound absurd to parents. Similarly, pictures of old women being cared for by children or the reflections of neglected sections of the society finding place in the books ..
Delhi University has more to offer than mere studies 14/Jun/2012
Students leaving school and stepping into college generally feel that they are leaving behind a whole range of activities that their school had to offer like super-competitive basketball games, even more competitive choir competitions and umpteen other activities that once defined their whole existence.They are in for a ..
Assam Government signs MOU with Microsoft India 14/Jun/2012
Assam government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU) with Microsoft Corporation India (Pvt) Limited to expedite Information and Communications Technology (ICT) adoption in schools. Official sources said here today that the year-long alliance will support Assam's School Education System to use ..

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