Education News in India 2012 : Page 275

Home is where the heart is 11/Jan/2012
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” said U.S. President, John F. Kennedy. The maxim seems to have inspired the students of College of Engineering, Guindy, who in association with infrastructure power house Akshaya Homes started an earnest campaign, ..
Education Infrastructure 11/Jan/2012
It is a truth universally acknowledged that in a large nation like India, you build a school and there will be enough students to make it run. With a growing and underserved young population it is estimated that 25 million additional places are required in primary education in India alone. The previous five year plan ..
The exam confusion 9/Jan/2012
Well into the first week of January, the confusion surrounding medical admissions this year persists. While private colleges have issued the formal schedule for the entrance test conducted by the COMED-K (Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental colleges of Karnataka), the State Government is yet to notify its ..
Engg. colleges may face heat on proposed fee structure 10/Jan/2012
The engineering colleges demand for a fee structure based on their facilities may boomerang on majority colleges in light of the Supreme Court's direction to the government that it workout a common fee structure based on the costs involved from the academic year 2012-13. The directions were based on a SLP ..
Short shrift to children's education 10/Jan/2012
Interventions aimed directly at children — providing free textbooks, uniforms and addressing out of school children – account only for 6 per cent of the total investment in elementary education. The largest investment — 78 per cent — of the education budget in India is invested in teachers and ..
In love with the Queen of Sciences 9/Jan/2012
If numbers go on to infinity, then the amazing journey of discovering its intricacies and applications extends even further. This is what has inspired some mathematicians who are pursuing their passion without second thoughts. E. Pramod, an M.Sc Mathematics student at IIT-Madras, for instance did his B...
Blossoming IIM-T takes confident strides 9/Jan/2012
The eleventh Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in the country, IIM, Tiruchirappalli, recently lowered the curtains on an eventful first year that began with Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal laying the foundation stone. Functioning from the premises of National Institute of ..
A 5Es' strategy for education in Tamil Nadu 9/Jan/2012
The State Planning Commission is in the final stages of the preparation of the draft for the XII Five Year Plan under various heads viz., health, industry, agriculture and education. The members of the commission have been involved in conducting stakeholders' meetings at regional levels to get suggestions ..
Delving into the world of mathematics 9/Jan/2012
Nearly 60 days to go for the most important exams: PU 2! It is that time of the year when tempers run high and frustration sets in and there is one overwhelming emotion among the students and their families — FEAR. Hundreds of thousands of students write the PU exams every year and a majority of them feel a great ..
60 days to go 9/Jan/2012
After nearly two years of a tedious routine, the time has come to cross the last hurdle. Examinations are not to be feared at least for one reason: the questions come from your own syllabus! It takes only a few minutes to be mentally prepared. Spend some time immediately to map out topics in each subject into three ..

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