Education News in India

Opportunities await you 27/Dec/2010
The WC Parker Diversity Scholarships at the University of Kentucky — that cover up to 50 per cent of tuition fees and which were originally limited to domestic US students — are now open to international students, including eligible Indian students. Emphasising the opportunity, Audra Cryder, ..
They were winners all the way! 27/Dec/2010
Indian American Akash Krishnan and Matthew Fernandez of Portland, Oregon, USA have won America's Premier Science Research Competition for High School Students awarded to astrophysics research on star formation and computer science research on identifying emotion in the human voice in the 2010 Siemens Competition in ..
Dance your way up the ladder 27/Dec/2010
Vikas Khokha, a senior executive with AirTel, has just finished learning how to jive from Ashley Lobo’s Danceworx Academy. The grand finale of the classes was a dance performance, which satisfied Khokha’s passion for dance, apart from his creative instincts. Khokha is not the only one in ..
Performance matters 27/Dec/2010
XLRI Jamshedpur’s popular test, XAT is considered to be an exam that invites high competition and stringent cut offs. Today, apart from XLRI, many other institutes also accept a XAT score for their selection processes. Prominent among them are the SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai (SPJIMR), ..
23-point code of ethics for teachers 24/Dec/2010
Lakhs of freshly appointed school teachers across India will soon be bound by a stringent 23-point code of ethics in a bid to instill professionalism among them. A four-member committee of the National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE) has mooted a mechanism for registration of persons eligible for teaching in schools...
MCI Clears Setting Up Of 66 Medical Colleges across Country 24/Dec/2010
Aiming to improve the abysmal doctor-patient ratio in India, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has permitted an increase of nearly 10,000 MBBS seats in medical colleges from this year.This means, after five to six years, the country will produce an additional 10,000 doctors, taking the yearly output to 45,000 from the ..
Facebook offers 48L pay to IITian 24/Dec/2010
Facebook has raised the salary bar once again. After offering Rs 38 lakh in pay to an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras student, the social networking site has extended a Rs 48 lakh offer to an IIT-Kanpur student. An official in the IIT-Kanpur student ..
Indian students number to dip in Australia by 80 per cent 24/Dec/2010
The number of Indian students enrolling at Australian universities for the 2011 academic year is set to plunge by 80 per cent, an academic said. Melbourne University vice-chancellor Glyn Davis said that higher education across Australia, including Victoria, is taking a big hit after reports of attacks ..
Students take FIITJEE Talent Reward Exam 27/Dec/2010
Parents swarming outside the centres of the national-level FIITJEE Talent Reward Exam (FTRE) 2011 held on Sunday had mixed feelings of anxiety and curiosity. “Through the result of this exam he can benchmark his performance,” said P. Padmakumar, a parent of a class X student. He saw the exam ..
VIT signs MoU with Asian varsities 27/Dec/2010
The VIT University, Vellore, signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with five Asian universities during the Asian University Presidents' Forum 2010 held at Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from December 16 to 18, according to a varsity release. The universities are Christian University of Thailand, Galileo Institute, Israel, ..

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