Education News in India

Varsity on a mission to save language spoken by three people 21/Apr/2011
An Oxford University team has discovered a language spoken by only three people and is now in a race against time to document the language for posterity. The urgency of the project has been underlined by the recent flooding on the island where the language is spoken. Researchers ..
Soon, your computer will have emotions like you 21/Apr/2011
Imagine a computer that has emotions just like you. This could soon be a reality, as scientists are inching closer to new class of computers which they say can feel "sorry" for their mistakes. Researchers at Tel Aviv University's Blavatnik School of Computer Science are developing ..
IITians innovation to be on display 21/Apr/2011
An alarm that will alert you to bad body posture, a low cost Barille display to help the visually challenged, an industrial robot and many other innovations by IITians will be showcased in an open-house on Saturday. Around 400 projects by 1,000 IIT students will be on display for public, especially school ..
Schools occupied by security personnel in Manipur 21/Apr/2011
Nearly 200 students in interior Bishenpur district of Manipur have not been able to attend classes for the past few years due to occupation of parts of their schools by security personnel. Interacting with a media team from Imphal who visited the schools at Karang in the district, some teachers told the team ..
Demand for new academy for regional languages 21/Apr/2011
Political parties today favoured an academy for regional languages to promote and protect languages spoken in Jharkhand. The demand was made at an all-party meeting chaired by Chief Minister Arjun Munda, who promised to look into it. Senior BJP leader Dipak Prakash said a Regional ..
Maha govt moves bill to put tab on fleecing of students 21/Apr/2011
The Maharashtra Educational Institutions (Regulation of collection of fees) Bill intended to prevent commercialisation of education was introduced in the legislative Assembly. Underlining salient features of the bill, School Education Minister Rajendra Darda said it (bill) aims to improve quality of ..
Kanpur university to print documents in special security press 20/Apr/2011
The Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University here has decided to print degree certificates and marksheets with special security features, similar to those found in currency notes, for easy differentiation between fake and original documents. Printed in a special security press, the certificates and marksheets will ..
New MIT research may turn building's windows into powerplants 20/Apr/2011
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on a new system through which the entire surface area of a building's windows could be used to generate electricity, without interfering with the ability to see through them. The key technology is a photo-voltaic cell based on organic molecules, ..
Cambridge University topples Oxford 20/Apr/2011
Cambridge has overtaken Oxford to become the leading university in the UK, being ranked at the top of the table among 116 institutions. According to a league table published, Cambridge ranked top out of 116 universities in a guide rating institutions by measures such as student satisfaction, research, ..
Madras HC declares TN Govt's Guidelines as invalid 20/Apr/2011
The Madras High Court today declared as invalid the Tamil Nadu Government's guidelines for grant of affiliation to Teacher Training Institutes. "On careful consideration of the impugned regulations I and II, in the light of the regulations framed by the National Council Teacher Education, we are of view that ..

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