Education News in India

IIM Calcutta website gets a facelift 8/Jun/2011
In its golden jubilee year, IIM Calcutta presents a whole-new state-of-the-art web portal for its users, registering its facelift in the cyberspace. The new web portal was launched officially on June 3. It provides the different stakeholders like faculty, alumni, students, external organisations and staff with their own ..
Alumni Meet at XIMB 7/Jun/2011
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) conducted its Annual Alumni Chapters’ Meet, Sanidhya ‘11 in 6 cities – Kolkata, Chennai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai recently. The event saw massive participation from XIMB alumni including entrepreneurs, CEOs, directors, VPs etc. from ..
Shifting to other boards for high marks 8/Jun/2011
After crossing the first hurdle – the Class X examination – some students are contemplating a move to other boards of study for the final years of their school education. But the differences in curriculum, teaching methodology and the examination pattern require the students to adopt a new approach. ..
Court declares medical varsity's exam guidelines unconstitutional 8/Jun/2011
The Madras High Court has declared as unconstitutional, discriminatory and violative of Art.14 of the Constitution, the guidelines of Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University for clinical/viva voce examination for final year MBBS (Non-Semester) Part II. The guidelines concerned the subject General Surgery. ..
Samacheer Kalvi implementation postponed 7/Jun/2011
The State Assembly on Tuesday passed a Bill to indefinitely postpone the implementation of the ‘uniform system of education' introduced by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) regime after the government asserted that it was not abandoning the concept of ‘Samacheer Kalvi' altogether, but was only opting for a ..
Free, compulsory education to be extended up to class X 7/Jun/2011
The provision of free and compulsory education will soon be extended up to Class X. A proposal to this effect was approved at a meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education — the highest decision making body on education in the country — held here on Tuesday. The Right of Children to ..
In the course of things 7/Jun/2011
Those were the days when a postgraduate student of English Literature would be immersed in Derrida's theory on post-structuralism or in Chomsky's views on language acquisition. That was when they would wax eloquent about Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales” and spew Homer's “Iliad” as if they were ..
Congnizant signs agreement with MIT Centre 7/Jun/2011
IT company Cognizant said it has signed a three year agreement with MIT Centre for Digital Business to fund research on new technologies in the CIME sector. "The three-year agreement with MIT Centre for Digital Business to fund research on the impacts of new technologies in the ..
Haryana launches school mapping project 7/Jun/2011
The Haryana government has launched a GPS project to identify areas where new schools need to be opened. The project is likely to be completed by this month-end, a spokesman of the Education Department said here 7th June. The department has purchased 21 GPS devices, ..
PG Medical college admissions in 50 pc quota stayed 7/Jun/2011
The Kerala High Court stayed Post Graduate admissions made by eight Self Financing Medical Colleges in the 50 per cent quota earmarked for state merit list. Justice P R Ramachandra Menon granted stay on a petition by Dr Pournami Mohan and two others, who contended that these colleges were arbitarily ..

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