Education News in India

Raising the bar 11/Jan/2010
The past year was eventful for the medical profession. While the government offered around 1,700 seats and introduced more paramedical courses, doctors showed that they could perform transplantations that were until then considered difficult at government-run hospitals. Until recently the government ..
Speedy Graphito paints school walls 9/Jan/2010
Kolkata: French street art has now come alive on the boundary walls of La Martiniere for Girls. Famed French artist Olivier Rizzo, popularly known as Speedy Graphito, has lent his creativity to three wall panels and drawn a tiger and a lion, the latter being a part of the school emblem. Rizzo is one of ..
Eight injured in college clash 9/Jan/2010
Kolkata: The campus of Hari Mohan Ghosh College and its adjoining areas in Garden Reach turned into a battlefield on Thursday afternoon when members of rival students’ organisations clashed over filing of nomination forms for the institution’s students’ union election. At least eight ..
A good student always ready to help others: Profs 9/Jan/2010
Kolkata: A year after 26/11, Khusboo decided to do something that would keep Malayesh Banerjee’s memory alive - a Rs 80,000 scholarship to be awarded to a third-year student who, like Malayesh, demonstrates all-round excellence. “I know that Malayesh is no more. But I want his name to remain ..
Students in school clean-up stir 9/Jan/2010
Kolkata: At least 300 schoolgirls in uniform blocked Suresh Sarkar Road, off AJC Bose Road, for half-an-hour on Friday morning to protest against the way locals were using the boundary wall of their school and the adjacent pavement. The agitation triggered a huge traffic snarl that spilled on to Moulali ..
Cambridge Ho! 9/Jan/2010
A meet on January 8 at the Bengal Chamber Of Commerce brought together Cambridge University’s vice-chancellor Prof Alison Richard, deputy vice-chancellor Prof Sandra Dame Watson and their Indian academic partners. The meet was to strengthen and celebrate important relationships with leading ..
Sibal meets delegation of Columbia Business School 9/Jan/2010
New Delhi: Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development today met with 22 students of the Columbia University Business School. On being asked about his priorities for the education sector, he stated that the top priority is to get a critical mass of students to go into University, which means that ..
'Maitri' English course for homemakers' 9/Jan/2010
'Maitri' is a unique English language learning programme for homemakers. Designed by the Advanced Learning Institute (Asia), it has modules such as Some 'Daily Life', which sensitises the participants to the application of language in day to day activities; 'Social English', which develops interactive skills; Lifestyle ..
IIT Madras team wins competition in New York 9/Jan/2010
New York: An entrepreneur team from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras has won the NYC Next Idea 2009-2010, an inaugural global business plan competition launched by New York City last year. City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Thursday announced the winner of the competition in which teams from ten ..
Australia must match action with words, says Sibal 9/Jan/2010
New Delhi: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday said the Australian government has assured him it would take action against attackers of Indian students, but 'their actions must match words'. 'They have spoken to me. They told me that they take this issue seriously. But what we want is ..

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