Education News in India

Parliament nod to NCTE (Amendment) Bill 3/Sep/2011
Parliament passed a Bill to restore powers to National Council of Teacher Education for framing rules and regulations related to qualification of teachers in primary schools. The National Council of Teachers Education (Amendment) Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha last year following a Supreme Court ..
CBI chargesheets 5 for rigging veterinary entrance test- 3/Sep/2011
CBI has chargesheeted five persons, including two doctors, for rigging the All India Pre-Veterinary Test (AIPVT) in May this year for resorting to forgery, cheating and corruption. The charge sheet was submitted to the court of Special CBI Judge Sanjeev Jain who ordered issuance of production ..
Internet and supermarkets 'kill off 2,000 bookshops in UK 3/Sep/2011
The number of bookshops in the UK has halved in the past six years and nearly 600 towns have none at all, because of the rise of internet retailers and the growing popularity of e-readers, a new research has revealed. There were 2,178 high street bookshops left in Britain in July compared with 4,000 ..
MoU signed for computer training 2/Sep/2011
Recently R.V.S. Educational Trust, Kovai and Atline technologies, Salem entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to provide computer training to students and faculties. On behalf of R.V.S. Educational Trust, Mr. K. Senthil Ganesh, Managing Trustee and on behalf of Atline Technologies, Mr. Venkatesh ..
No failures until 5 th standard in Chhattisgarh 2/Sep/2011
Chhattisgarh government brought into force a rule which prohibits failing a student throughout the primary school years. The state government notified rules under Right to Education Act, which also ban capitation fees for admission to pre-primary or primary schools. ..
Schools in no-go zone near Fukushima plant relocate, reopen 2/Sep/2011
Four schools and one kindergarten that had been shuttered in the no-entry zone within a 20-kilometer radius of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant reopened after they relocated to a site about 50 kilometers away. Two elementary schools, two junior high schools and a ..
Delhi Book Fair stall owners get creative 3/Sep/2011
With a relatively low footfall at the Delhi Book Fair, stall owners are now coming up with innovative ideas to increase sales. Bright Publications, which specialises in books for competitive exams like AIEEE and GMAT, has put up a banner promising a free cricket bat with a three-year subscription of their ..
Today's youth less creative? 3/Sep/2011
It may sound like the complaint of a jaded adult, but the youth today are less creative and imaginative as they used to be, scientists have found. In a study of about 300,000 creativity tests going back to the 1970s, researchers at the College of William and Mary in the US found that creativity has ..
Panel to suggest ways to rejuvenate admissions in agricultural varsities 2/Sep/2011
Concerned over the declining rate of admission seekers in two agriculture universities of Jammu and Kashmir, a panel of six members headed by chief secretary has been set up by the state government to study and suggest ways to arrest the ongoing trend. The panel has been constituted to ..
Plea against CBSE grading system for students dismissed 2/Sep/2011
A plea by some senior secondary schools, challenging the CBSE decision to introduce grading system to evaluate Class IX and X students from academic year 2009-2010 was dismissed by the Delhi High Court. Turning down the plea by Independent Schools Federation of India, a bench of Chief Justice Dipak ..

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