Education News in India

Students take recourse to Guide books during exams rather than text books 27/Feb/2013
Examination time is probably the only period of the year when the university students turn pages of books. With just few days left for the examinations to start, guide books are registering brisk sale. The students have no time to go through textbooks. They prefer guide books to study the entire syllabus. ..
ASER 2012 (rural) a revelation of the sorry state of affairs of education .. 27/Feb/2013
In what seems to be a revelation of the sorry state of affairs of education in Assam, the Annual Status of Education Report-ASER 2012 (rural) was released here on Tuesday. As per the survey, as against the national average of 96.5 per cent, merely 95.6 per cent children in the state in the age group of ..
States grossly underutilising funds despite demand for increased .. 27/Feb/2013
Several surveys have shown a decline in the standards of school education across the country; now it turns out many states, including Tamil Nadu, have been grossly underutilising funds despite a demand for increasing allocation for education to 6% of GDP. The recent report by the Centre for Policy ..
CIIE launches a premier program for technology startups 26/Feb/2013
The Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), the business incubator located at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has launched a premier program for technology startups. CIIE has joined hands with Village Capital to launch an acceleration program for ..
Parents express insufficient good colleges for science courses as per .. 26/Feb/2013
Around 43% of the parents who were surveyed expressed insufficiency of good colleges for Science courses in India. The proportion was particularly high among parents from Hyderabad (59%) and among those that want their children to pursue a career in research (54%). This and more in the study conducted by ..
EADS Corporate Foundation enters into a partnership agreement with .. 26/Feb/2013
EADS Corporate Foundation has entered into a partnership agreement with the Centre for Applicable Mathematics of TIFR (TIFR-CAM) and the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of TIFR (ICTS-TIFR) to create an international teaching and research chair titled "Mathematics of Complex Systems". <br ..
Nagpur to get the first-ever open agricultural university 26/Feb/2013
Arvind Krushi Mukta Vidyapeeth, the first-ever open agricultural university, dedicated to practical education in the field of agriculture, will come up soon in Nagpur. Farmer suicides, poor yields, low remunerations, crop damage due to untimely or inadequate rains, were some issues disturbing me for the ..
Snacking at night can make you add more kilos 26/Feb/2013
Snacking at night can make you add more kilos than munching on food during the day, according to a new study. The study found that the body turns more of the food into fat at night, while turning it into fuel during the day. Researchers found that mice's ability to regulate their blood ..
Professional engagement of a person qualified in law cannot be equated .. 26/Feb/2013
The Supreme Court registry has told the Delhi High Court that the process of engagement of law researchers by it is "not open to judicial scrutiny" as there is no employer-employee relationship between them. The professional engagement of a person qualified in law cannot be equated with the ..
Nepals CPN-Maoist vandalised a local school for conducting exams under .. 26/Feb/2013
Activists of the breakaway CPN-Maoist faction in Nepal vandalised vehicles of a local school allegedly for conducting exams under India's CBSE system, the second such attack on the institution. Two activists belonging to the CPN-Maoist-backed teachers and students bodies, smashed windowpanes of two school ..

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