Education News in India

Prepare SMART for GRE 29/Jun/2010
The Graduate Record Examination (GRE), the real time passport for technical education in United States that attracts about 50,000 students from India every year, is an angel that is unwarrantedly dreaded. But how do you crack GRE ? By Just being SMART – Systematic, Methodical Assimilation and Rehearsal Techniques...
IIM-A to set up extended campus in Hyderabad soon 29/Jun/2010
The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, the top business school in the country will set up a campus in Hyderabad soon, a senior official of the Andhra Pradesh government said today. He said that the idea was originally mooted when Dr Rajasekhara Reddy was the chief minister. The former CM had ..
Court grills AIIMS on post-graduation seats 29/Jun/2010
The Delhi High Court Monday questioned the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on allocation of seats to students in post-graduation courses. The vacation bench of Justice M.C. Garg directed the AIIMS to explain by June 30 as to how the all-India level seats were allocated. The ..
IIT-JEE panel for 70 pc weightage to Class-XII marks 29/Jun/2010
Seventy per cent weightage should be given to Class-XII performance of students while selecting them for prestigious IITs, a high level panel has recommended. The panel comprising directors of IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Madras, IIT-Bombay and IIT-Roorki has suggested that the IIT-JEE will be replaced by a ..
TN Govt planning MBBS courses in Tamil: CM 29/Jun/2010
After introducing Tamil as the medium of instruction in Engineering education, TN Government proposes to extend it to medical courses, CM Karunanidhi said. "The (Higher Education) minister had announced that Engineering courses would be taught in Tamil from this year. Next, it would be introduced in ..
Second-rung biz schools churning out 'unemployable' graduates? 29/Jun/2010
Gaurav Kapoor completed his MBA from a Greater Noida institute, but the two year diploma couldn't get him a job he wanted and he finally joined a BPO. He is among the thousands who are virtually "unemployable" as the second rung B-schools they studied in failed to impart the necessary soft skills. <br ..
USIEF introduces new fellowship programme 29/Jun/2010
The Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship programme complements bilateral efforts between India and the United States and increases mutual understanding between people of the two countries, said Diya Dutt, Deputy Director, United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF). Addressing a mentoring workshop for ..
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan panel revises norms of intervention to meet RTE Act .. 29/Jun/2010
The executive committee of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) has revised several norms of intervention to align them with the standards of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act. The State SSA societies have factored in the revised norms in their Annual Work Plans and Budgets (AWP&B) ..
India ranks low in research 25/Jun/2010
India is ranked a poor 35th among the top 40 nations in the research performance, as per the Journal Citation Report released by Thomson Reuters, which is considered to be a leading source of intelligent information. 87,512 papers Out of the 1,62,100 papers submitted from 2004-2009 to leading ..
Country needs to expand access to higher education 24/Jun/2010
To combat the shortage of trained manpower, the country needs to expand access to higher education and skill development using information technology tools, said A. Kalanidhi, vice-chairman, Commonwealth Science and Technology Academy for Research (C-STAR), here on Wednesday. Delivering the Prof. Y. ..

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