Education News in India

State lays norms for private school grants 13/Oct/2011
There will now be an added impetus for private schools to ensure quality education. For, retaining a healthy pass percentage and ensuring a high number of first-class pass outs would increase a school’s chances of availing grants. The state cabinet decided parameters for eligibility for grants to ..
Higher Education Summit kicks off in U.S. 13/Oct/2011
Getting off to a brisk start on a rainy, wind-swept morning at Georgetown University here in Washington, the first ever India-United States Higher Education Summit was kicked off on Thursday by Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Among the ..
Teachers need to reinvent themselves 13/Oct/2011
It is a great time to be a teacher in India. The very idea of what a teacher should be is changing. Earlier, we thought the teacher had to know everything, and just press the switch for information to transfer into the students' minds. When some students behaved in disruptive ways, they had to be controlled or else the ..
It's Stanes this time at the Young World quiz 13/Oct/2011
The Hindu Young World Quiz 2011 held at the Shree Baldevdas Kikani Vidya Mandir High School here on Wednesday had all the ingredients of an edge-of-the-seat contest. The students were there with their contagious enthusiasm. And, the parents and teachers were there too, applauding every progress the participants made.<br ..
Industry comes to college to make them job-ready 13/Oct/2011
Students going to industry for internships is passé. Now industries come to college. The laboratories or compact workstations, set up by the industries using their own equipment and technology, in select colleges, are called “Centres of excellence”. Though the concept is ..
Quality of academic professionals on the decline, says Dongre 13/Oct/2011
Higher education, especially professional education, is witnessing institutional proliferation at the cost of quality, said Yashavantha Dongre, Registrar, Vijayanagara Krishnadevaraya University, Bellary. He was speaking on the inaugural day of a two-day University Grants Commission (UGC)-sponsored ..
India, US need higher levels of collaboration in education 13/Oct/2011
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has stressed the need for a structured multi-level collaboration between India and the US, especially in the field of education. "India and the United States need higher levels of collaboration, especially in education and by structured and multi-level collaboration, we can ..
Liquid can turn into solid, physicists show 13/Oct/2011
Physicists claim to have for the first time demonstrated in simulations that liquid can turn into solid under high electric field. A team at the Georgia Institute of Technology has shown that under the influence of sufficiently high electric fields, liquid droplets of certain materials undergo ..
US looking forward to passage of Foreign varsities bill 13/Oct/2011
US looks forward to the passage of the Foreign Universities Bill in the Indian Parliament as American educational institutions want to engage India, a senior Obama Administration official said here. "We see tremendous progress but the very fact that the bill is in front of Parliament, it just ..
Sprawling campus for Central University 13/Oct/2011
The Central University of Jharkhand announced to go for a global tender to set up a sprawling infrastructure on the outskirts of Ranchi, hours after the Arjun Munda cabinet approved 319 acre land for the institution. Out of the total 500 acres required to set up the sprawling campus, ..

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