Education News in India

Discussing Modern India 10/Oct/2011
iLEAD, Institute of Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Development, hosted the M L Chopra Memorial Lecture by Sumantra Bose, professor of international and comparative politics at London School of Economics on the subject of ‘Contemporary India’. The professor is also the grandson of Sarat Chandra Bose, elder ..
IIT heads echo Murthy on dipping quality of students 10/Oct/2011
The gates that lead to an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) are narrow. One needs to elbow out at least 400 others to get beyond the entry point. It is this mad dash that stokes the coaching industry. This year, of the 13,195 who qualified to join the IITs, two-thirds said they took professional help to prepare for ..
Majority of IITians from cities 10/Oct/2011
There was a time when IITs prided themselves in managing to draw the best from across the country. Now, say many experts, the JEE has lost its mojo. An analysis carried out after JEE 2011 shows that of the 4.68 lakh candidates who appeared, 86,719 (or 18.5%) had completed schooling in an Indian village. Another 1.35 ..
IIT campus speaks national language 10/Oct/2011
It won’t be incorrect to say that Hindi is the official language on the IIT campus. Data collected by tech schools shows that every other student comes from north India, from homes that speak Hindi. Their numbers on the IIT campuses is large by the sheer dint that they also form the largest pack of ..
Providing Better Chances 10/Oct/2011
In a breakthrough step towards facilitating education to the underprivileged children, Central Queensland (CQ) University, Australia has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lovely Professional University (LPU) and an NGO, The Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT). The MoU was exchanged between Rennie Fritschy, ..
IITH to shift to permanent campus by 2013 10/Oct/2011
Finally, after a gap of three years, the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IITH) made a beginning to have its permanent campus. Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and Union Minister of State for Human Resources D. Purandeswari have held Bhoomipooja (ground breaking ceremony) on the day of Dasara. ..
Quality of students from IITs coming down? 10/Oct/2011
The doyen of Indian software industry N.R. Narayana Murthy caused quite a flutter in the academic circles by stating that the quality of students coming out of the coveted Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) is on a steady decline. In a state that prides itself on the number of students it sends in to these elite ..
Fake accents don't get you jobs 10/Oct/2011
“The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech” - François de la Rochefoucauld Job seekers in the IT industry invariably put on a fake accent under the impression that it is going to impress the job givers. The ..
Students should think about gaining work experience 10/Oct/2011
It was around this time last year that I left home in Bangalore and began my journey to the UK to study for a MBA at the University of Liverpool. It was a time of excitement, change, and lots of new challenges and difficult decisions. I knew that study in the UK would lead to valuable work experience, but there were ..
National meet on mathematics education in November 10/Oct/2011
Renowned academics from across the country will meet in November to discuss steps to improve mathematics education in the school and the higher education sectors. The National Initiative on Mathematics Education (NIME) 2011, a southern regional conference on mathematics education to be held from November 11 to 13 in ..

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