Education News in India 2011 : Page 256

New courses on gender and development 27/Jun/2011
The Indira Gandhi National Open University's (Ignou) School of Gender and Development Studies (SOGDS) has launched two distance-mode programmes — postgraduate certificate in gender and development studies and postgraduate diploma in gender and development studies — from this July session. ..
Reserved in space 27/Jun/2011
Shubham Sharma, a student of class X from Jaipur,was selected out of 1500 entries from across the world to take part in a competition organised by Nasa; and he stood second in the competition. The young and talented prodigy conceived a project of creating a space settlement, which will be an alternate ..
Students love Bangalore 27/Jun/2011
Bangalore is top of the mind for many youngsters when it comes to education. With some of the premier institutions located here and the quality education offered, it has become a favourite educational destination for students. Principals of colleges said that the city offers various courses from ..
Bangalore, the education hub 27/Jun/2011
Today, Bangalore's claim to fame comes from its IT behemoths and the lakhs of jobs they have generated. It's said that if you throw a stone in Bangalore, chances are that it will hit an IT professional. Bangalore's fame, in fact, has spread far and wide for its IT prowess, and thus has put India on the global map. ..
Karnataka shows the way 27/Jun/2011
Karnataka is known today as a pioneer in IT and biotech. But its many visionaries realised the importance of education and hence it is known for its many universities which offer a range of courses. Here's a thumbnail sketch of some of them: Bangalore University (BU) is considered to be among the oldest ..
Double delight for 2 Dongri school students 27/Jun/2011
Out of the over 11 lakh students who passed the SSC examination this year, two stand out. They cleared the board exam with flying colours while almost simultaneously finishing the Hafiz (memorizing the entire Quran) course. Junaid Salim Motorwala and Idrisi Faizan, students of Safa High School at Dongri, became Hafiz ..
Entrance test for UoPs MTech-PhD on July 31 28/Jun/2011
The University of Pune’s maiden national-level entrance exam for the country’s first of its kind four-year integrated MTech-PhD course for engineering and science graduates will be held on July 31. Candidates clearing this test will be interviewed on August 1 for final selection. The university has released ..
Primary school to be extended up to std V 28/Jun/2011
For a long time, schools stuffed our children with more than they could digest. Suddenly, there is a feeling that chapters from history and maps of the world were introduced a year too early for generations of kids. The union human resources development ministry has now decided to take a massive correctional step. ..
Govt is dumbing down education 28/Jun/2011
Several states have entry-age school admissions in class I at age five, rather than age six. “Children in these states thus face the double burden of ‘heavy’ curriculum on account of early entry into the schooling system, as well as introduction of upper primary subjects at class V itself,” said ..
Education department meet on admissions for CBSE school-test students 27/Jun/2011
State education minister Rajendra Darda will meet senior officials from the education department and Maharashtra State Board of Education today to check the legalities involved in giving the go-ahead for admissions to CBSE students who took the school-based exam. On Saturday, the department decided to let CBSE students ..

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