Education News in India

Growth for All 27/Apr/2011
To take the concept of inclusive growth to the future business leaders, International School of Business, Kolkata in association with The Times of India is organizing a panel discussion on the ‘Strategy for Inclusive Growth’. Part of the institute’s Signature Seminar Series on Business and Leadership, ..
USA: Shrinking Hold 25/Apr/2011
Since the 1950s, the US has been the leading destination for international students, and it continues to host an increasing number of students and scholars from around the world. The shift in USA’s world share as a host of international students from 28% to 20% over the past decade is due to multiple factors, ..
China now a global education magnet 25/Apr/2011
The world goes to China to entice its young to their colleges. As in India, there too, higher education fairs, road shows and special admission campaigns drive thousands to pick brochures that give a peek into life on a campus in the West. Suddenly last year, China moved to a different level, leaving India lumbering ..
Software to monitor teacher's vacancies 26/Apr/2011
In order to implement the Right To Education Act (RTE) more effectively, a new software that will monitor teacher employment has been developed, an officer from the Human Resource Development Ministry said. The software will use data from district information system for education and generate lists on ..
Developing skills 26/Apr/2011
City Pride school, Pradhikaran – Nigdi, recently held an activity to inculcate entrepreneurial skills in the school students. Titled ‘Business City’, the programme was inaugurated by Mangalatai Kadam, former mayor of Pimpri Chinchwad. Later, Nalini Jambhekar released the school magazine. ..
Dynamic exchange replaces brain drain 25/Apr/2011
China has made rapid strides in the unlikely field of higher education and is attracting several thousand foreign students every year. Speaking of the rise of the Asian region, Rajika Bhandari, Raisa Belyavina and Robert Gutierrez in their work, ‘Student Mobility and the Internationalisation of ..
From 50s to 30s, IIT faculty getting younger by the year 25/Apr/2011
Campuses across India are getting younger. In the 1980s, anyone who walked into a packed class at the Indian Institutes of Technology was a grey-haired, seemingly wise 60-year-old. Most of these professors had folded up their crazy work schedules in the corporate world and decided to settle down to a stress-free life on ..
More girls taking CAT, but fewer making it to IIM-A, says survey 25/Apr/2011
Detailed analysis of students getting into the country’s top B-school, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) shows that although more and more girls are taking the Common Admission Test (CAT), not many are making it to the final list. The number of girls in IIMA’s flagship course, ..
Panel for single test for all engineering colleges 25/Apr/2011
T Ramasami Committee on reforms in IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) has decided to have a single entrance examination for admission to engineering courses, but is yet to firm up how specifically it would be done. In the next few days, a dedicated website would be created to draw public opinion. It remains to be seen ..
Private Universities Bill tabled in assembly 25/Apr/2011
The Private Universities Bill was finally introduced in the Maharashtra legislative assembly on Thursday. The Bill is in keeping with the global outlook prevalent in the academic world, a key bureaucrat said that soon after the legislation was moved in the House, Minister for higher and technical education Rajesh Tope ..

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