Education News in India

Parents gherao principal after school closure 8/Jul/2009
Kolkata: Trouble brewed at a girls school in central Kolkata for the better part of Monday as parents gheraoed the principal, seeking an explanation for the sudden closure of the school on Friday. Lee Memorial, a 150-year-old girls school off Wellington Square, finished classes two hours before time on Friday as ..
Entrepreneurship programme for graduates 8/Jul/2009
Hyderabad: Osmania University will organise a four-week Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP) for unemployed graduates/post-graduates in any subject. EDP has modules on project identification, finance, licences, IPR, marketing, communication ..
KU introduces grading system from this academic year 8/Jul/2009
Kannur: As part of restructuring higher education curricula, the Kannur University has decided to go ahead with grading system from this academic year in all its affiliated colleges, Vice-Chancellor Michael Tharakan said. The introduction of grading system should be considered as beginning of restructuring the ..
Debate competitions for school students 8/Jul/2009
Coimbatore: The British council will organize 'Debating Matters', a contest for students of classes XI and XII . Each school should register a six-member debate team with a debate coordinator teacher and only one team is allowed for every school, a release stated. The first stage of the competition is an ..
IIT-Bombay signs MoU with Canadian varsity 8/Jul/2009
Toronto: The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, plans to work jointly with Edmonton-based University of Alberta to work together on energy and health research. According to the three-year agreement finalised at the weekend by IIT-Bombay professor ..
Select Primary teachers like IAS officers - Kalam 8/Jul/2009
New Delhi: In India, primary school teachers should be selected the way civil service officers are to ensure that they are qualified and equipped to groom young children, former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said on Tuesday. Kalam was speaking on Capacity Building in Young Minds for the Central Institute for ..
Govt contemplating bill on foreign universities: Sibal 8/Jul/2009
Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, he said India needs to become a world class educational hub for which 'we need to access' global institutions. 'I hope to send it (Foreign University Bil) to the Cabinet', he said in the Rajya Sabha, adding that the bill will be brought to Parliament whenever ..
Principals told to inform cop about ragging 8/Jul/2009
Chennai: Appealing to the heads of various in educational institutions to lodge complaints on ragging immediately, the commissioner of police, T. Rajendran said. Speaking at a meeting convened for the Principals of city colleges, he said steps should be taken to curb the menace of ragging by following the ..
Heard of audiometry? 7/Jul/2009
Audiometricians are urgently required by ENT specialists but they are in short supply. Now that the government has launched its National Programme for Prevention and Control of Deafness, the need is more acutely felt, the specialists say. An audiometrician is as important to the field of ENT as an ..
Opportunities beckon engineering students 7/Jul/2009
Eighty per cent of Indians don’t have bank accounts, 50 per cent of Indians don’t have access to primary health care, 50 per cent of food distributed by the government for public doesn’t reach the targeted groups and the country faces a shortage of nearly three lakh teachers. These are ..

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