Education News in India

Medical interns may now face action 10/May/2011
A day after medical interns called off their week-long strike, the state authorities have done an about-turn. On Monday, Mantralaya issued a notice stating that the honourable minister (medical education minister Dr Vijaykumar Gavit) had never given assurance that no action would be taken against the striking interns...
Fee hike protests at Malad school 9/May/2011
Parents of children studying at Dr S Radhakrishnan Vidyalaya school in Malad (West) protested outside the school after the management increased the fees. The parents were demanding that the school withdraw the hike. However, the school authorities refused to do so, and called in the police. No complaint has been ..
NASA invites five Mumbai kids 11/May/2011
It’s barely three months since a ‘lunabot’ was born at a Goregaon lab. Today, it is an expert at extracting oxygen from sand particles found on the lunar surface. The indigenously-built robot will now fly to the US with its creators, a team of five Indian students, to participate in ..
Aiding The Blind 10/May/2011
An NGO working for the visually challenged in Kolkata donated 15 titles, in both English and Bengali to nine schools for blind in the vicinity of the city. Called the 'Third Eye' , it also distributed the first and second volumes of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitabitan in Braille edition, in association with National ..
Late for viva, 43 students may fail exam 10/May/2011
43 out of the 60 third-year architecture students from Bharti Vidyapeeth’s College of Architecture, Navi Mumbai, might fail their exams as the college did not allow them to appear for their vivas. The reason? The students reached half an hour after the exam began. The students approached Mumbai ..
Students worry as schools sit on online admission booklets 10/May/2011
While Std X students are anxiously awaiting their results and at the same time reading their online admission booklets to understand the process, some students are yet to get hold of them. The education department issued these booklets to all schools in the last week of April, but some educational institutes are yet to ..
Lessons in netiquette 9/May/2011
Schools are realising that teaching the rules of math, science and languages may not be enough for today’s students growing up in the cyber world. The schools are now including internet etiquette or ‘netiquette’ in their curriculum. So much so that it’s now becoming common place to see students ..
Balbharati goes online 9/May/2011
To tackle perennial shortage of its textbooks, Balbharati has decided to upload them on its web site (www.balbharati.in) in the PDF format. Starting from June the textbooks for Std I to VIII will be available online free of cost. The PDF files will contain all the illustrations and exercises that the ..
Medical interns call off hunger strike 9/May/2011
Medical interns called off their seven-day hunger strike on Sunday, after they were assured of a hike in their monthly stipend by the government. Vijay Kumar Gavit, state medical education minister, told the interns that a fresh proposal would be drafted and put up in the next cabinet meeting. <br ..
New facility at MIT with $1 million grant from Lord Paul 13/May/2011
A new facility for students and faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, built with a one million-dollar grant from Labour peer Swraj Paul, was opened on Friday and will be the new home for its School of Management. The grant was made through the Ambika Paul Foundation, ..

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