Education News in India

  • CBSE strategy is clearly to encourage online exam 23/Apr/2013
  • Last year when CBSE announced that it will be conducting the big ticket Joint Entrance Exam ( JEE) in the offline mode outside of Nagpur, many students frowned upon the change - and not without reason. The centre chosen in place of Nagpur was neighbouring Amravati which was lacking in infrastructure. <br ..
  • International summer school programme to encourage foreign students to .. 23/Apr/2013
  • Jamia Milia Islamia has launched a six-week international summer school programme to encourage foreign students to study various aspects of contemporary India and learn Hindi. The international summer school (ISS) programme, under the banner of the Ministry of Tourism's 'Incredible India' campaign, has ..
  • CBSE introduces Theatre Studies as an elective subject in Class XI 24/Apr/2013
  • The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has introduced Theatre Studies as an elective subject in Class XI from the current academic session. The subject is being introduced "as a pilot course on first-come-first-serve basis". "Theatre is one of the strongest mediums of expression.....
  • Confusion over department of study on Value education course 24/Apr/2013
  • A compulsory course to be taught in the first year of the four-year undergraduate programme has mystified teachers. Called "integrating mind, body and heart", the subject is college-equivalent of the value-education course that CBSE has introduced in schools, only with a much greater dose of "Gandhian ..
  • Shri Ram College of Commerce did not have a statistics teacher for any of .. 24/Apr/2013
  • In the face of the launch of the four-year undergraduate programme that will add another 54,000 to Delhi University's existing undergraduate roll strength, a reality check. One of the most sought-after colleges in DU, Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) did not have a statistics teacher for any of its 13 sections for a ..
  • Much is missing from the curriculum that was approved for UG Economics .. 24/Apr/2013
  • Some of Delhi University's most celebrated economists and economic historians like Amartya Sen, Shahid Amin and K N Raj will be disappointed to learn that the papers they once taught will no longer be a part of the undergraduate economics course. Despite the extra year, much is missing from the curriculum that was ..
  • H-B visas being used to outsource cheap labour rather than talent 23/Apr/2013
  • Amidst Congressional debate on the comprehensive immigration reform, a top US Senator has accused big Indian IT companies - TCS, Infosys and Wipro - of abusing the H-1B visa system. "There are some specific abuses of H-1B," Senator Richard Durbin, said during a Congressional hearing on ..
  • New campus of Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM) .. 23/Apr/2013
  • A new campus of Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM) will come up at NCR zone. The new campus spreading across 10 acres in Sector 62 of Noida and constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 27.70 crore will be inaugurated by Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi. IITTM, an ..
  • Memory lapse could be linked to a necessary part of the brains ability to .. 23/Apr/2013
  • British neuroscientists may have found an explanation for why we seem to forget the name of new acquaintances. University of Sussex researchers believe the memory lapse could be linked to a necessary part of the brain's ability to consolidate long-term memories. Their study, published today ..
  • Kerala state library council converting libraries in rural areas in the .. 23/Apr/2013
  • Kerala state library council has launched a project for converting libraries in rural areas in the state to e-knowledge centres, providing free internet services to them. The rural libraries would be computerised for the purpose at a cost of Rs 50 lakh during the year, an official release here said. ..

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