Education News in India 2011 : Page 345

JK govt identifies 375 acre land for central varsity in Jammu 31/Mar/2011
Jammu and Kashmir government said 375 acre land have been identified for setting up of a central university in Jammu. Replying to a query in the state Council, Planning Minister Manohar Lal Sharma said 375 acres of land have been identified for setting up of a central university in Jammu. ..
Language translation software launched 31/Mar/2011
A system that facilitates translation of languages on the internet was launched by former President APJ Abdul Kalam here. The Machine translation (MT) system developed by 17 institutions including the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) was released at the 20th International World ..
Haryana issues guideline on Education Act 31/Mar/2011
The Directorate of Elementary Education in Haryana has issued guidelines for the effective implementation of the Right to Education Act. Giving details of the guidelines, a spokesman of the Directorate said here that every child in the age group of six to 14 years would be provided eight years of ..
Parents' complaint against school 31/Mar/2011
A section of parents of class XI students of Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Taylor's Road, are upset with the school management for detaining their children. A few of the parents have even filed a police complaint about the “injustice” meted out by the school. The parents have alleged that the answer papers have been ..
Plan to reform MBBS comes under censure 30/Mar/2011
Academicians and heads of medical institutions from across the country have given the thumbs-down to most of the path-breaking changes recommended in the MBBS curriculum by the Medical Council of India (MCI) earlier this year. A salient feature, shortening the MBBS course to four years from four-and-half years, came in ..
The enigma of IIT-JEE 30/Mar/2011
A world of billion-dollar possibilities, near misses, parental sacrifices, and conceptual learning, not to forget the hard work, dedication and assumptions of luck that go with it. Come this April 10, nearly 5 lakh students would attempt the much talked-about IIT Joint Entrance Examination. The fabled world of the IITs ..
For a barrier-free' higher education 30/Mar/2011
Physical barriers persist in preventing those with disabilities from having access to higher education. Creating awareness on this condition in educational institutions is the key to promoting higher education for persons with special needs. This was the outcome of a programme that was held in Coimbatore ..
Poised for a headstart 30/Mar/2011
The Indian Institute of Management - Tiruchi (IIM-T), thanks to the support provided by the mentor institution, the Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore, will have the distinction of being the first among the newly-started IIMs to take off with its own faculty. After a process of rigorous scrutiny, ..
Peer pressure may lead to wrong choices 30/Mar/2011
Satish Raju (name changed) who is now in the fourth year of his engineering in the ECE stream in a private college, joined engineering just because his friends had taken admission and had influenced him to take up engineering study, while his interest lay in the study of economics. Today, he is lagging behind with about ..
The call of pure science 30/Mar/2011
We always see a heavy rush for admission to science courses at the Pre-University level with students and parents queuing up before colleges. But the same trend does not continue at the undergraduate level where there are very few takers for basic science courses. Thanks to the mad craze for joining ..

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