Education News in India

MBA for sale 25/May/2011
The first thing towards getting to a B-School is the application. B-Schools list down eligibility criteria. They do not mention anything in specific. They simply ask for any UG, CAT, XAT or MAT scores and x-years of work experience. Since there is no mention about a specific cut off for entrance test scores, I wondered ..
24 students make to the IIT-JEE from Super30 25/May/2011
Twenty-four students from underprivileged sections, of the total 30, have this time made it to the IIT-JEE from the ‘Super-30’ founded by mathematics wizard Anand Kumar. With this the total number of Super 30 students, having qualified for the IIT-JEE in the last nine years, has gone up to ..
Ramanujan had more creativity than most of us do 25/May/2011
A remarkable feature of Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan was his ability to take small strands of knowledge and expand them into long highways, Bruce Berndt, American mathematician and an authority on Ramanujan said on Tuesday. Delivering the Alladi Centenary Foundation lecture ..
Varsity to transform arts, science colleges 25/May/2011
The University of Madras will spearhead a campaign to transform affiliated arts and science colleges through public-private partnership programmes into institutions offering job-oriented training, its Vice Chancellor G.Thiruvasagam said here on Tuesday. Henceforth, industry representatives would be ..
His passion lies in chemistry 25/May/2011
He talks at length about anti-cancer agents and molecular properties, and wonders how nice it would be if all schools encouraged students to approach science with curiosity and passion. “You don't need to be a chemist to appreciate chemistry,” says Raghavendra Ramachanderan, a 16 year- ..
Boosting confidence is a must for them 25/May/2011
At a time when toppers are enjoying the limelight, some of their classmates who did not clear the board examinations are busy with the application process for the supplementary examinations. Sources in the Directorate of Government Examinations said that last year about 1.5 lakh students, including ..
Do not defer Samacheer Kalvi, say educationists 25/May/2011
The State government should not defer implementation of Samacheer Kalvi, educationists and organisations in support of Equitable Standard School Education said here on Tuesday. Addressing presspersons, they said a team of experienced teachers and professionals had evolved the syllabus for Samacheer ..
Students shun city colleges, look to IITs, IIMs and universities abroad 24/May/2011
This year, only a handful of class XII CBSE students will be applying to state-run degree colleges in Mumbai. While high-scorers are more nervous about their performance in competitive entrance exams to Indian Institutes of Technology and Management, which they say will decide the course of their future careers, others ..
We need to build more classrooms, say schools 24/May/2011
Educational institutes always welcome extra space, because they say they have many reasons to expand their buildings. Schools and colleges say that additional classroom space is always sorely needed. The Kandivli Education Trust was recently granted additional Floor Space Index (FSI) for their already ..
Upholding the Arts 24/May/2011
With hundreds of chapters in cities all over India and abroad, SPIC MACAY, a non-governmental, non-profit and voluntary movement conducts concerts of classical music, dance and folk arts, theatre, screening of classic films, heritage walks to monuments of historical and cultural significance, talks by eminent persons ..

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