Education News in India

UK based skills specialist Bournville sets up South Asia operations .. 8/Nov/2011
Bournville Training and Consultancy, the training and consultancy arm of the renowned Bournville College of Further Education, Birmingham, UK, announced the commencement of its South Asia operations with India as the primary hub. Through this venture, the company will provide a holistic training programme with globally ..
Fee hike clips engineering students dreams 8/Nov/2011
Tuition fees in engineering colleges are soaring through the roof, forcing more students to rely on loans. Data submitted by students to the Directorate of Technical Education shows that close to 50% or over 65,000 of those who joined engineering institutes come from homes where the annual family income ..
School looks online for lessons 8/Nov/2011
In a role reversal of sorts, a city CBSE school is experimenting with the idea of inter-changing classroom and homework. R N Podar School in Santa Cruz will facilitate online lectures to its students, which can be viewed at home. At the same time, teachers will use the online software to monitor the ..
US B-school woos India Inc for jobs 8/Nov/2011
With the American economy looking weak, universities, including the Ivies, are looking to prospective employees in the East. For one, the Yale School of Management is here to woo companies to participate in this year’s recruitment process. Edward Snyder, the B-school’s dean, was in Mumbai on ..
Shikshan Manch fields 'ineligible' candidate for Nagpur University polls 8/Nov/2011
Any election related to Nagpur University seems to get mired in some controversy. This time, when its full-fledged academic council meets to elect three management council (MC) members on Friday, one of the candidates will contest the polls despite the fact that he does not fulfil an eligibility criterion. ..
Economy pushes students to core engineering streams 8/Nov/2011
For years, computer science was a rage among those who made it to the top of the Common Entrance Test (CET) selection list. But preferences have changed as the information technology shimmer has faded and the state of the economy has become less certain. Among the popular streams, computer science has the ..
Swiss touch to vocational training 8/Nov/2011
There is a standard story about India's untapped demographic dividend working age population (15-59 years). We lack skilled or in many way employable workforce that can further boost our economic growth. There might be some hope in the coming years as an Indo-Swiss joint initiative is working to train about a million ..
University plans research portal 8/Nov/2011
Future research scholars of the University of Kerala have reason to cheer. A year from now, the entire research-related administrative process — from the scrutiny of research application to the scheduling of the open defence — would be done by software. According to a proposal cleared by the ..
Schoolgirl undertakes green campaign 8/Nov/2011
Inspired by the quote: ‘Be the change you want to see in the world', Shriya Mahajan, student of Std. IX of Etasi Timpany Secondary School, CBM Compound, has taken the onus of spreading the message of ‘save our environment'. To start with, she has initiated a club ‘My Envirovision' along ..
Report on students' performance under Samacheer Kalvi to be sought 8/Nov/2011
All government and Chennai schools in the city will soon be asked to consolidate the marks students have obtained in the first term and send the report to the School Education Department. The initiative is to help the Department get a sense of how students have scored after the introduction of Samacheer ..

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