The indirect grading is no grading at all. It is only conversion of marks into grades. It has all the weaknesses of awarding marks.
Grading is a superior system in as much as it groups the students in categories, rather than determining the exact position in a scale, which is a very difficult and sometimes ..
Registration continues for the pre-admission guidance programmes being conducted by The Hindu-EducationPlus at three centres in Kerala in the next few days for the benefit of those seeking admission to courses in various professional streams.
‘Looking Ahead: A Counselling Session’, is being conducted ..
New Delhi: Here is good news for students, who are not getting admission in their choice of colleges at Delhi University (DU), as the Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL) is working on a project to provide the best lectures by teachers of various colleges of Delhi University on its website.
The ILLL is the ..
Mangalore: The Mangalore-based Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management (a unit of Bhandary Foundation, Mangalore) has signed an agreement with the Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT-A) for developing academic resources at the college.
Addressing press persons, Dr MD Tiwari, ..
Hyderabad: Nidhi Modani, Rajat Gangwar and Siddhartha Basu secured 175 marks out of 200 and topped the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)-2009.
However, Modani was ranked all-India first, Gangwar second and Basu third. The Nalsar University of Law, which conducted the all-India entrance test, announced the ..
Bhubaneswar: The government has decided to give a 100 per cent block grant to the teaching and non-teaching staff of 737 aided colleges (488 junior and 249 degree colleges) in the state.
The government has issued the notification in this regard recently. The decision will be implemented from the day the ..
Bangalore: IITJEE conducted an open interactive seminar at the Air Force auditorium in Bangalore where Nitin Jain, the all-India 2009 topper in IITJEE, along with other toppers met a huge number of students, mostly IITJEE 2010 aspirants, from all over the country for sharing their success mantra encompassing the saga of ..
Coimbatore: The State Eligibility Test (SET) of the University Grants Commission (UGC) for lectureship will be conducted on August 16.
The examination will be conducted at Coimbatore, Madurai and Chennai.
'Philosophy, law, ..
New Delhi: To control ragging, the UGC started a national call centre to catch ragging victims across the country, complaints registered by dialing a toll free number
The helpline is equipped with software that will pass on the complaints directly to the head of the institution within 15 minutes to help the ..
Coimbatore: The affiliated colleges were warned of withdrawal of courses by Bharathiar University, if they commit to collect high capitation and tuition fee from students
Tamil Nadu Higher Education minister, Dr K Ponmudi at a recent meeting of Vice-Chancellors, has asked them to utilise their powers under the ..