Education News in India

GRE now with scope aplenty 23/Mar/2009
The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is part of the admission process of more than 4,000 management programmes, such as MBA, at nearly 1,800 schools across the world. The test measures verbal, mathematical and analytical writing skills of candidates to judge their suitability for advanced study in business and ..
Of the world of stars and planets 23/Mar/2009
What potential does astronomy hold for students as a field of study? Naresh Dadhich, Director of the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, answers this and other questions on the fields of astronomy and astrophysics. ‘Schools should concentrate on basic courses, but they should ..
Copious research opportunities across the globe 20/Mar/2009
Tiruchi: Plenty of opportunities are available in research and post-doctoral research around the globe. Students from rural areas do not know how to tap the avenues for research schemes of funding agencies, although they have the right potential. Through the State-level seminar on Recent Advances ..
Latest tracking system at VIT 20/Mar/2009
Vellore: Vellore Institute of Technology has emerged out to be first in the country and second in the world to have Radio Frequency Identification Lab (RFID). This system would enable the University authorities to track the college possessions or the student or anything if they were tagged. Apart ..
Texas University offers business courses in India 20/Mar/2009
The University of Texas will soon be offering graduate business administration courses in India. The North Texas University said, it has formed a partnership with the Areez Khambatta Trust to offer the courses at India's Khambatta Center for Excellence in India. The trust, which is run by ..
Compete against Indian and Chinese kids 20/Mar/2009
Addressing a meeting at Costa Mesa in California, Obama emphasised on the need to raise the standards of education and put more efforts in education, which he had been stressing upon since his election campaign days. 'We can't afford our kids to be mediocre at a time when they're competing against kids in ..
10 students injured after caning from teacher 20/Mar/2009
Ten students of a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) school here suffered injuries after being beaten by their teacher for making noise in the classroom. The students of Class 3 in the MCD school, New Ashok Nagar, in east Delhi were beaten with a cane by Raj Kumar Wednesday, a police officer said. ..
Noida students allege cheating 20/Mar/2009
Students of a private management institute here Thursday complained to the police about their college cheating them by making false promises of assured placements but instead found themselves booked for damaging college property. The institute termed the incident a "conspiracy". A group of students of Gayatri ..
MCI completes probe into ragging death 20/Mar/2009
A three-member team of the Medical Council of India (MCI) Thursday completed its probe into the death of a first-year medical student in Himachal Pradesh allegedly due to ragging. Aman Kachru, 19, died March 8, a few hours after being allegedly ragged by four final-year students of the Rajendra Prasad Medical College at ..
India must initiate structural reforms 20/Mar/2009
New Delhi: India has to initiate "structural reforms" in the educational system if it wants to reap the benefits of its "demographic dividend", National Knowledge Commission (NKC) Chairman Sam Pitroda said here Thursday. The demographic dividend denotes a rise in economic growth due to an increasing ..

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