Education News in India

Be sensitive thermometers if not thermostats 31/Jul/2010
Former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi wished the graduands of Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) “not the excitement of playing God but the contentment of being instruments for fostering a humane society on a planet that is groaning under our weight and the weight of our excesses.” ..
Master plan to expand IIT-Madras infrastructure to be ready soon 31/Jul/2010
A detailed master plan for Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) campus to create infrastructure sufficient to increase student strength mandated by the Centre will be ready by August, M.S. Ananth, Director, IIT-M, has stated in his annual report. All structures under the plan will have features ..
Business sense 30/Jul/2010
Calcutta International School organised Enterprise 2010, an interschool business meet on the school premises on July 26. The programme was organised by students of class XI and XII from various schools. It gave a view on the scope of business studies at a +2 level and encouraged business as a career in ..
Elementary lessons 30/Jul/2010
Fulbright- Hays arranged a summer seminar - “Indian School Education System: Trends and Challenges”, for which a group of 15 US elementary teachers, visited elementary schools in different parts of India at USEIF. They were in Kolkata from July 23 to 27. They went to schools like Loreto ..
Right note 30/Jul/2010
Around 26 schools took part in Crescendo, an inter-school music competition, which was recently organised by the Calcutta School of Music and sponsored by Fiama-di-Wills. The preliminaries had already been held from July 19-22. Five participants were selected for the finals in the categories of piano, ..
Harvard to open executive development centre in Mumbai 30/Jul/2010
Harvard Business School (HBS) will invest in creating a classroom for conducting its executive development programmes (EDP) in Mumbai within the next two years, says HBS dean Nitin Nohria. Though the ivy league B-school has no plans to set up a full-fledged campus, which the government policy now allows ..
Number of Indian students going to US falls, rises for UK 30/Jul/2010
Europe, after ages, has upstaged the US as the preferred campus destination for Indians. More than twice the number of desi students who applied to fly abroad for entry into colleges this year chose the UK over America. Data on the fresh visas for entry into colleges in 2010 reveals that the US issued ..
India, Britain to augment cooperation in education 30/Jul/2010
India and Britain on Thursday decided to launch a new phase of the India-UK Education and Research Initiative, as they discussed prospects of further cooperation in the field of education. According to a joint statement issued at the end of the visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron, the first ..
Centre, states to share funds at 65:35 ratio for RTE 30/Jul/2010
Ending the controversy over sharing of funds and paving the way for implementing the historic Right To Education (RTE) law, the government has fixed the funds sharing pattern at 65 to 35 between the Centre and the states for the next five years. There will be a requirement of Rs 2.31 lakh ..
Students protest against collection of excess fees 30/Jul/2010
Tension prevailed at a private self-financing engineering college at Tiruchirapalli suburb when a section of students studying MBA went on rampage stoning one of the college buses this morning. According to police, the students were protesting against collection of fees more than the stipulated amount for ..

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