Education News in India

School textbooks go easy on the text, heavy on visuals 18/May/2011
An ice cream seller wearing a cap, his small, mobile unit with an umbrella in mild pink and white, children crowding around to pick up their favourite flavour – the colourful wrapper of the class V English textbook of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) makes you want to pick it up ..
AUT planning preparatory schools for Plus-2 pass students 17/May/2011
Anna University of Technology, Chennai, plans to involve engineering colleges affiliated to it in starting preparatory schools to introduce Plus-2 pass students to higher mathematics as they step into engineering. After conducting a preliminary test on the level of understanding mathematics from the ..
TeamLease to start vocational university 17/May/2011
The TeamLease, a staffing solutions company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Gujarat for establishing a vocational university, according to Vandana Sharma, head-Partners Operations, IIJT (Indian Institute of Job Training) Education Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore. She was talking to ..
Free textbooks distribution likely in June 17/May/2011
Free textbooks for school students are likely to be distributed by first week of June after getting the concurrence of the new School Education Minister, C.Ve. Shanmugham. From this academic year, equitable education syllabus will be introduced up to Standard X (already it is in effect in the Standard ..
Planning Commission sets up working group on school education 17/May/2011
The Planning Commission has set up a working group on elementary education and literacy that will suggest measures for faster reduction in illiteracy with emphasis on gender, regional and social dimensions, and incentivise States to achieve cent per cent literacy during the XII Plan period. To be ..
Steering higher education to a new path 17/May/2011
K. N. Panikkar, Vice-Chairman of the Kerala State Higher Education Council, has been involved in revitalising the higher education scene in Kerala. A renowned academic and historian, Dr. Panikkar shares his thoughts on a wide range of issues addressed by the council in an interview to The Hindu-EducationPlus. <br ..
Spearheading research in key areas 17/May/2011
Though the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has numerous achievements in diverse fields of science, it often highlights certain specific areas, some of which are indicated below. Aerospace CSIR has many successes in the field of aerospace. It has been at the forefront in pushing the ..
New management school at MIT 16/May/2011
A state-of-the-art facility for students and faculty of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which will now house its School of Management, has been built here with the USD one million assistance from the UK-based NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul. The generous ..
IIT-B students Satellite to be launched by year-end 16/May/2011
Pratham, the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay’s student satellite project, crossed an important milestone recently with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) giving the ‘go ahead’ for firming up its launch date. Speaking to The Times of India on Sunday at the conclusion of the fourth and ..
IIT-JEE math errors to fetch 12 marks free 16/May/2011
Eight questions of 30 marks in this year’s IIT-JEE, the entrance examination to the Indian Institutes of Technology, had wrong, ambiguous and incomplete descriptions, show the answer keys released on Sunday. IIT-Kanpur, which conducted the joint entrance exam, said three mathematics questions have ..

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