Education News in India

  • Are basic sciences losing ground? 7/Jun/2010
  • The Tamil Nadu Government has reduced minimum eligibility marks by five per cent for admission to Engineering courses from 2010-11 purportedly to widen opportunities for rural students, much to the relief of managements of self-financing engineering colleges. Last year, there were 51,000 vacant seats across the 440 ..
  • IGNOU-UNESCO Science Olympiad 7/Jun/2010
  • New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University and UNESCO will organise a South Asia Science Olympiad for 11th grade students from all SAARC countries.     Eleventh grade students from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with a minimum of ..
  • IGNOU offer certificate courses in Chinese and Spanish 7/Jun/2010
  • Madurai: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) would offer certificate courses in Chinese and Spanish languages from this year. Talking to reporters after a function to open a new campus for its regional centre here, IGNOU Vice-Chancellor V N Rajasekharan Pillai said the institution had signed an ..
  • Malaysians to graduate in Indian classical music 7/Jun/2010
  • Kuala Lumpur: Come August and Malaysia will see the first batch of graduates and diploma holders in Indian classical music trained at a state-of-the-art school affiliated to an Indian university. Malaysian students intending to study Indian classical music now pursue their interest in their own country ..
  • NEWS Font Size School of Open Learning raises eligibility criteria 7/Jun/2010
  • New Delhi: The decision by Delhi University authorities to increase the eligibility criteria for B.A. and B.Com courses of the School of Open Learning (SOL) to 40 percent has garnered mixed reactions from people. Many people are opposed to the decision as they feel that it will restrict many aspirants ..
  • Education makes life meaningful, says Kiran Bedi 7/Jun/2010
  • New Delhi: Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi underscored the crucial role education plays in the overall development of society and said every possible effort should be made to educate people on issues related to life. Addressing a function, organised to mark the formal launch of an educational programme on ..
  • RTE may suffer from teachers' shortage 4/Jun/2010
  • New Delhi: The Right to Education Act (RTE) might come a cropper for acute shortage of teachers, especially lack of trained ones. That's how the Parliamentary Committee on Human Resource Development assesses the situation with regard to implementation of the historic act. 'Teacher recruitment is today the ..
  • School of Open Learning raises eligibility criteria 4/Jun/2010
  • New Delhi: The decision by Delhi University authorities to increase the eligibility criteria for B.A. and B.Com courses of the School of Open Learning (SOL) to 40 percent has garnered mixed reactions from people. Many people are opposed to the decision as they feel that it will restrict many aspirants ..
  • India Chair to be established at prestigious Leiden University 4/Jun/2010
  • An India Chair will be set up at the prestigious Leiden University of The Netherlands to strengthen educational and cultural bonds between the two countries. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and the Leiden University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here yesterday for ..
  • Goel wants 85% seats in 18 gov colleges for Delhi CBSE students 4/Jun/2010
  • BJP leader Vijay Goel today demanded that 85 per cent of seats in 18 Delhi Government colleges under the Delhi University be reserved for students who have passed class XII CBSE examination from Delhi. Addressing a press conference here, the BJP leader said he has written a letter to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit ..

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