Education News in India

Third year BE results delayed 6/Apr/2011
University of Mumbai has not declared the results of first semester exams of third year engineering students though the exams were held on December 29 last year. The university has received several complaints from students because it already started distributing second semester forms. Vilas Shinde, ..
New chairman for education panel 6/Apr/2011
It's official now! The civic body’s standing and education committees will have a new chairman. Currently, the standing committee, which is one of the three statutory committees in the civic body and controls the BMC’s finances, is headed by the Shiv Sena. There were several candidates running ..
MCI plans to send docs back to lecture halls 5/Apr/2011
Medical Council of India (MCI) is all set to send doctors back to lecture halls, failing which they would lose their licence to practice. According to new rules, to be announced, the council is planning to make it mandatory for all doctors to attend 30 hours of continuing medical education (CME) every ..
Medical panels visit leaves state babus red-faced 5/Apr/2011
The road to seek approval for new medical colleges not only seems to be laden with setbacks but also some unpleasant surprises for the state government. Recently, the state was left red-faced when a Medical Council of India (MCI) team visited Nandurbar, the proposed site for a new medical college, only to ..
Arrogant schools deny rights for special children 5/Apr/2011
When it comes to dealing with learning disability (LD), Mumbai’s schools and colleges are downright medieval. Several parents of children with LD complain of taunts like ‘mental’ thrown at their children. As for government policies on LD, educational institutions seem to be oblivious of the law. ..
Student termed ineligible by varsity, HC raps college 5/Apr/2011
The Bombay High Court (HC) has come to the rescue of the students declared ineligible for a course they spent considerable time studying. Recently, hearing a petition filed a student of Khalsa College, the division bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Mridula Bhatkar directed the Mumbai University as well as Khalsa ..
Hoping for a bright future 6/Apr/2011
The jubilant smiles on the faces of the final-year students of St. Joseph's College of Engineering were in anticipation of a bright future as they received their placement orders on Tuesday. A total of 839 students got the orders at ‘Conquista '11', a programme organised in the college. Cognizant, ..
It's a season of entrance tests 6/Apr/2011
Vivek (name changed) was taken aback when his name did not figure in the class XI entrance test result list of Sir Sivaswami Kalalaya Senior Secondary School. “Physics was tough, it covered a lot of first-term portions,” says Vivek, who is one of the class toppers of another CBSE school. He ..
A pill to improve medical education 5/Apr/2011
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has proposed major changes in the undergraduate curriculum and training aimed at meeting the twin demand of having more graduates and maintaining the quality of education. The Board of Governors of the MCI has recommended creation of an “Indian Medical Graduate,” who will ..
Mixed response to proposals 5/Apr/2011
The MCI recommendations have evoked mixed reactions among academicians. Experts have suggested that the council should not go ahead and implement the proposals in haste. Terming the MCI's reforms as ‘generally appreciable', P. G. R. Pillai, Dean of Medical Science and Technology, Cochin University ..

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