Education News in India

Ganjam implements teacher on call scheme 13/Oct/2010
Ganjam is probably the first district in Orissa to implement the teacher on call scheme by appointing as many as 47 retired teachers, including nine women. These teachers were appointed in 40 different schools in four blocks and Berhampur Municipal Corporation area under the Berhampur education district...
Pondicherry Varsity's silver jubilee celebrations 13/Oct/2010
Dr C.Rangarajan, Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, will deliver the keynote address at the valedictory of the silver jubilee celebrations of Pondicherry University on October 18. A release from the University said that the Lt Governor of Puducherry Dr Iqbal Singh, who is the ..
'Tally-NABARD provided jobs to 1,456 BPL youths' 13/Oct/2010
Software company Tally and NABARD Consultancy Services (NABCONS) announced that 1,456 class 12th passouts, belonging to Below Poverty Line (BPL), have been given job placements in Rajasthan in six months. Beneficiaries got suitable jobs after three months of training under an MoU signed with NABCONs ..
NET-qualified researchers to get higher fellowship 13/Oct/2010
There is good news for National Eligibility Test (NET)-qualified researchers, who will get higher fellowship. The Union Human Resource Development Ministry, in consultation with the Finance Ministry, has approved the revision which will come into effect from April 1, 2010. However, the Finance Ministry ..
UGC to hold lectureship test on December 26 12/Oct/2010
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has invited applications for its National Eligibility Test (NET) in arts and humanities subjects to be held on December 26 for determining the eligibility for the award of Junior Research Fellowships (JRF) and eligibility for lectureship in Indian universities and colleges. Online ..
The thrills and spills of seafarers 12/Oct/2010
We had discussed the overall nature of work in merchant navy and certain specific aspects of jobs in the deck department in these columns previously. Let us now look at some of the other areas of work in a merchant ship. Engine department The engineers are in sole charge of the engine room, ..
Highlights of committee report 12/Oct/2010
The following are the recommendations of the committee set up by the Kerala State Higher Education Council to suggest reforms in university examinations in the State. A suitable template with guidelines relating to the scope and structure of the syllabus statement of each separate course should be ..
Pointing the way for a major change 12/Oct/2010
University examinations in Kerala are today mostly administrative exercises. The academic component of examinations should be refurbished through clearly specified goals of learning, well laid out methods of assessing what has been learnt, and innovations in the way examinations are administered. These, in essence, are ..
Truth behind the hype 12/Oct/2010
About 75 per cent of the total seats in postgraduate programmes in various life science courses, including the much-hyped Biotechnology, offered in colleges affiliated to Bangalore University have found no takers this year. The statistics of admission details for the academic year 2010-11 show that there ..
Academics in the cradle of Romanticism' 12/Oct/2010
From a small village called Srirengapuram in Theni district in Tamil Nadu, my dream was to become a doctor during school days. Although it didn't work, I chose biology and enrolled in Lady Doak College, Madurai, in Biotechnology for my UG and The American College for my PG. To be honest I didn't have any ..

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