Education News in India

Oceanic Consultants extends operations to Canada and USA 15/Sep/2010
Established in 1996, Oceanic Consultants Pvt Ltd, the Melbourne-based leading overseas education consultancy firm with its offices spread across India, providing overseas education solutions for Australia, Canada, New Zealand and United Kingdom has now expanded its business operations to Canada and USA. ..
Foreign universities may further skew the education system: expert 14/Sep/2010
On the move to allow foreign universities into India. Many of the foreign universities may be much worse that our own universities. I too have taught in a foreign university. In many such institutions—I am not talking of Harvard and so on—the quality of education at the degree level is very ..
Different styles of classroom teaching 14/Sep/2010
Last week we discussed how a good teacher should handle the classroom situation. Let us now focus our attention on the various styles of teaching in a classroom. Lecture Teaching in higher classes mostly follows the lecture method, with the convenience it offers. In the first place, a large ..
Enhancing the skills of graduates 14/Sep/2010
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has embarked on a major programme with an aim to introduce career-oriented programmes in universities and colleges across the country. In the academic year 2011-12, the commission will support a variety of such courses in science, arts and commerce. These courses will be offered as ..
For the sake of innovation 14/Sep/2010
The Human Resource Development Ministry's proposal to establish a new brand of university – Universities for Innovation (UIs) – has not got a good response from a large number of academicians in Karnataka. Many academicians, including former and present Vice-Chancellors of universities ..
ICE: integrating branches, creating avenues 14/Sep/2010
Integration of engineering courses is on the rise to create new courses so that students can pick up skills in multiple streams and at the same time specialise in a new area. Instrumentation and Control Engineering (ICE) falls in this group. With the Instrumentation and Control Systems growing in importance due to their ..
Finding my feet in Florida 14/Sep/2010
A Masters degree abroad is never a cake walk for Indian students. There is one too many reasons for studying abroad. While few of the students pursue their Masters in the United States of America for a shot at earning in US dollars, some pursue their degree to bring back the knowledge and experience learnt to their home ..
Bio-medical engineering must focus on unmet clinical needs: expert 14/Sep/2010
Bio-medical engineering, which is the application of engineering technology to medicine, has to focus on “unmet clinical need,” says Lionel Tarassenko, Chair in Electrical Engineering, Oxford University. In India over the last couple of weeks, to examine areas of collaboration with Indian ..
Rahul pays first visit to Visva-Bharati University 14/Sep/2010
AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today visited for the first time Visva-Bharati University, where three generations of his family had been chancellors. Gandhi arrived here by car to interact with students of the University, after covering some distance in a helicopter. He met around 1,000 ..
Novel protest against university decision 14/Sep/2010
In a novel form of protest, a dancer used Kerala's classical art form 'Mohiniyattam' to come out against a university's decision to shelve the proposed set up of seven International study centres named after reformists like Adi Sankara, Narayana Guru and Gandhiji. Well known dancer Sudha ..

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