Education News in India 2011 : Page 308

Talent is getting harder to find in India: Manpower 19/May/2011
Indian companies are increasingly finding it difficult to find right talent, with 67 per cent of employers struggling to meet their critical-level hiring targets, a survey claimed. About a year ago, only about 16 per cent companies were facing difficulties in getting the right talent ..
HC refuses to stay notification to declare Jamia minority institute- 19/May/2011
In a relief for Jamia Millia Islamia University, the Delhi High Court refused to stay a notification of National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) granting it the status of a minority institution. "We will not stay the notification of the NCMEI," a pision bench of ..
Initiate democratic election process for MCI: IMA 19/May/2011
The one-year extension given to the Board of Governors, which was constituted to take over the regulatory responsibilities of now-dissolved Medical Council of India (MCI), has caused displeasure among members of Indian Medical Association (IMA). "When government dissolved the MCI and replaced ..
Best-5 boosts ICSE percentages 18/May/2011
For the first time, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, which declared the class X ICSE and class XII ISC results on Tuesday, did not announce all-India toppers in a bid to reduce stress and cut down competition among students. In both board exams, girls outdid boys. But confusion reigned among ..
Against all odds 18/May/2011
For many students, 80% in the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) board exams is not ideal. But that is not the case for 15-year-old Aayush Mithaiwala from Christ Church School in Byculla. Aayush is perfectly happy with his scores as he has been undergoing chemotherapy for over a year now and this is proof ..
Confusion reigns in city ICSE schools over Best-5 policy 18/May/2011
In several city ICSE schools, nearly half the students scored 90% or more in their board exams, results of which were announced by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations. Last year, state board toppers scored over 100% after the Maharashtra government adopted the Best-5 policy, and it appears that ..
College admission a hurdle to students with disability 19/May/2011
As students with disability who have completed Class XII get set to join colleges, particularly aided and self-financing institutions, they encounter several barriers in the admission process. S. Aruna, a student from Kovalam, has partial visual impairment. She has applied to two city colleges. “I ..
Engineering counselling will be close race' this year 19/May/2011
This year's engineering admission counselling in Tamil Nadu is going to be a “close race” because of the same cut-off marks scored by unusually more number of students in Plus-Two examinations. There are hundreds of students having the same cut-off mark and they have been asked to have a ..
Multiple agencies to assess accreditation eligibility of institutions .. 19/May/2011
Multiple agencies that will assess the accreditation eligibility of higher education institutions on the basis of a set of “proxy parameters” should be the way forward for quality assurance in India's higher learning sector, experts said on Wednesday. Educationists attending the two-day ..
?Textbooks will be ready before schools reopen? 18/May/2011
Textbooks for the new academic year will be ready and distributed before schools reopen, Minister for School Education C.Ve. Shanmugam said on Wednesday. 'Samacheer Kalvi' Talking to reporters after his first meeting with heads of various departments on the Directorate of Public Instruction ..

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