Education News in India

AU-Tiruchi to organise national meet in nanotechnology 8/Dec/2009
Chennai: Aiming at exploring the potential of nanotechnology for new product development and tapping benefits through its application, the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Anna University, Tiruchi, has planned to organise a national conference on â€˜Recent Trends and Applications of ..
Two colleges in Aus close, Indian students affected 8/Dec/2009
Melbourne: Two private colleges in Australia have been closed by a state regulator after they failed to meet basic education standards, putting in jeopardy the future of over 100 students, mostly from India. Australian Institute of Career Education and Australian International College of Commerce were ..
Tech not to be blamed for failure of on-line tests 8/Dec/2009
Technology should not be blamed for any fiasco in a large on-line testing programme as several technologies and solutions are easily available," they said in the backdrop of the recent problems faced by students in the online test of the Common Admission Test (CAT). Refusing to buy the excuse of ..
CAT ends today, contingency plan ready 8/Dec/2009
New Delhi: 'virus-hit'on CAT ends today prospects of some candidates missing out the entrance and prompting the authorities to prepare a contingency plan. Nearly 1.87 lakh candidates have appeared in the test till yesterday as about 2.41 lakh candidates have registered for it. American firm ..
Time for urgent action 7/Dec/2009
Is school education too boring and the curriculum obsolete? Are we educating children via the straightjacket approach of rote learning? These and many such questions may sound uncomfortable to principals and educationists, but at some level most acknowledge these unfortunate facts though many pay lip service to ..
Make your passion into your profession 7/Dec/2009
Do you have an interest in physical spaces? Do you keep doing up your home? Are you creative or artistic? If your answer is yes, you have the potential to wear an interior designer’s hat! There was a time when architects, while entrusted with the task of designing the exteriors of a space, were also ..
CBSE goes global 7/Dec/2009
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is all set to go international. An international school board set up on the lines of the UK-based IGCSE, affiliated to the University of Cambridge and the Geneva-based International Baccalaureate (IB) will be put into place by the CBSE next year. “Akin to overseas ..
Scaling new heights 7/Dec/2009
It seems Indian students are all set to leave their mark on the international competition scenario — seven Indian students were amongst the winners of Oracle’s ThinkQuest Competition 2009. The contest included a website competition where teams develop educational websites on topics of their choosing and a ..
Getting a grip on the education scenario 7/Dec/2009
If Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal is to be believed, major modifications are due in the Indian higher education system. Said Sibal, “Today 220 million children are able to go to school and out of them only 26 million reach college, which is just 12 per cent. Our aim in the near future ..
Go Scottish 7/Dec/2009
After signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), Universities Scotland is gearing up to make the cooperation work on the ground. A team of Scottish academia and enablers visited India recently to meet like-minded, quality-seeking Indian universities, and know what they ..

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