Education News in India 2012 : Page 246

Panic over US jobs plan 31/Jan/2012
With US President Barack Obama’s announcement in the state of the union address this year to discourage outsourcing with taxes, several students in engineering colleges across the state are apprehensive whether IT companies will continue their recruitment drive. President Obama said the US needs to ..
HC comes to the rescue of MSc student in Mumbai 30/Jan/2012
An educational institute or a university cannot verify the application form of a student after a year and then invalidate his admission, the Bombay High Court said last week. The scale of equity and justice is tilted toward such students, said the court, adding that verification should be instant. On ..
Academics slam education department for PU probe order 29/Jan/2012
Setting up of inquiry committees by the state government against the alleged irregularities in Patna and Magadh universities has stirred up a hornet's nest in the academic circles. Academics have taken strong exception to the government action in instituting inquiries against the vice-chancellors on its own sweet will ..
Government neglecting pre-primary education 30/Jan/2012
The country's largest primary teachers union feels the government is not doing enough for early childhood education. Rampal Singh, president of All India Primary Teachers Federation (AIPTF), said, "The Right To Education Act will be focusing on children between the ages of 6-14. But there is no major ..
ICAI comes with a new format of financial reporting 30/Jan/2012
As part of a nation-wide programme aimed at infrastructure expansion, the new premises of ICAI's Southern India Regional Council were inagurated by its President G Ramaswamy here. "We want to improve the lot of the numerous small and medium-level practitioners in the country. International accounting ..
NID to develop African craftswomen's skills 30/Jan/2012
India's premier design school, the National Institute of Design (NID) will soon undertake a project of training and empowering rural African craftswomen through design intervention in basketry-making. "To begin with, by February end we shall send a team of designers from here to Zimbabwe to conduct a ..
Farooqui takes charge as acting Vice Chancellor of AMU 30/Jan/2012
Professor Sibghatullah Farooqui has taken over as the acting Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. Farooqui, who took over yesterday, sa0id he will convene a meeting of the executive council on a priority basis to make way for the selection of a full-time Vice Chancellor. Meanwhile, ..
Mood is upbeat 30/Jan/2012
Come February, weekends will gain a whole new meaning for students of the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B). Instead of relaxing or cramming for their final examinations, they will spend the last few weekends of their college life waiting for interviews, appearing before tough panels, sifting through job ..
Innovative projects and focussed areas 30/Jan/2012
Having bagged the status of “Universities with Potential for Excellence (UPE)” from the University Grants Commission (UGC), the University of Mysore, which has plans of breaking into the top 150 universities of the world by 2025 through a multifaceted action plan, has drawn up innovative projects to make a ..
This is crucial data 30/Jan/2012
The All India Survey on Higher Education initiated by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development is expected to create an authentic database on this sector in the country. Efforts are on to collect information on various aspects related to the sector, as part of the initiative. The Ministry had ..

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