Education News in India 2011 : Page 436

Sibal inaugurates Indo-US conclave on engineering education 11/Jan/2011
“With the open content and open-access movement, we are seeing the early emergence of a meta-university - a transcendent, accessible, empowering, dynamic, communally constructed framework of open materials and platforms on which much of higher education worldwide can be constructed or enhanced,” said Kapil ..
ICICI Bank and NIIT University to offer MBA (Finance and Banking) 11/Jan/2011
In a first of its kind partnership, the not-for-profit NIIT University and ICICI Bank Ltd, India’s largest private sector Bank, have come together to launch a Master of Business Administration (Finance and Banking) programme. The agreement was signed today by Chanda Kochhar, Managing Director and ..
Coca Cola and ISB to set up retail academy 11/Jan/2011
Beverage major Coca Cola has joined hands with the Indian School of Business (ISB) to set up a retail academy at the ISB campus. The Coca Cola Indian School of Business retail academy will offer a six-month programme to train mid-level professionals in retail management. Top officials of Coca Cola and the ..
J&K schools to have grading system 12/Jan/2011
The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to introduce grading system to assess performance of students in state-run schools, in order to make the tests stress-free and reduce the rate of depression among children. “In order to bring reforms in education system and do away with trend of ..
Doubts raised over flexibility in language for Tamil medium 12/Jan/2011
The textbooks for the second semester of Civil and Mechanical Engineering streams (Tamil medium) will be ready in a month's time. However, experts and students wonder if there should be an equivalent Tamil term that corresponds to every technical term used in engineering subjects in English. The ..
Advocate-General justifies quota for Arunthathiyars 11/Jan/2011
The government is well within its powers while enacting legislation for providing special reservation of three per cent to Arunthathiyars out of 18 per cent given to Scheduled Castes in educational institutions and government employment, Advocate General P.S. Raman argued before the Madras High Court Bench here on ..
Key centres for study of foreign languages 11/Jan/2011
We had discussed in detail the facilities available in the Jawaharlal Nehru University at Delhi for learning foreign languages. Let us look at some other fine centres. EFLU This university with Hyderabad as its headquarters has regional centres at Lucknow and Shillong. Contacts: The English ..
Strategies for learning a foreign language 11/Jan/2011
There are different ways of learning a foreign language. The best way is going to a country where the language is spoken and living there for some time. The ideal way to develop listening and speaking skills is to interact with natural speakers of the language. However, living in another country for the sole purpose of ..
This exam may not be held 11/Jan/2011
The proposed all-India common entrance test for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses in colleges across the country is unlikely to be held for the coming academic year 2011-12. With the Medical Council of India (MCI) withdrawing its notification on conducting the National ..
Indian Americans pioneering cancer research from herbal extracts 11/Jan/2011
Curcumin, pepper, ginger, garlic have found their way into the labs of premier universities across the United States with Indian American scientists beginning to test natural products for treatment of cancer. “Almost every group is thinking and conducting animal and clinical trials from natural ..

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