Education News in India

Every Indian school should teach Urdu: Sibal 30/Mar/2011
Observing that Urdu is a language deeply associated with the history and culture of India, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal advocated for teaching it in every school in the country. "I want to run a scheme under which every school in the country will impart Urdu language as a subject," he said at the ..
M.S. Ananth to step down as Director of IIT-Madras 29/Mar/2011
After a ten-year stint, M.S. Ananth will step down as Director of Indian Institute of Technology-Madras by June. Mr. Ananth said on the sidelines of a lecture at IIT-M on Tuesday that he had conveyed this to Union Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal. His resignation had been forwarded ..
Major changes in MBBS curriculum proposed 30/Mar/2011
The Board of Governors of the Medical Council of India (MCI) has proposed major changes in the undergraduate curriculum and training programme that would create an “Indian Medical Graduate,” who will have necessary competence to assume his or her role as a healthcare provider. The ..
No hall tickets on eve of exams 29/Mar/2011
Just 24 hours before the final year arts, management and media studies examinations are to commence, several students, instead of spending their time studying, have been forced to queue up in their colleges to procure their hall tickets. “We had been waiting for the hall tickets for days but ..
Will protest paralyse exam schedule? 29/Mar/2011
The work-to-rule agitation by the non-teaching staff of the Mumbai varsity is likely to cripple the on-going final-year examination schedule as 1, 600 employees have refused to work beyond the hours stipulated in the rule book. The protest began on March 25. It is during the examination time when the non-teaching ..
SC relief for colleges without full-time principals 29/Mar/2011
The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the directives of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court of December 3, 2008, which had given a deadline to all colleges in the state to ensure that they appoint full-time principals. The high court had also provided for a ban on college admissions if they failed to appoint ..
No decision yet on proposal for three medical colleges 29/Mar/2011
Uncertainty prevails over the setting up of three government-run medical colleges in the state as the crucial file for the allocation of over Rs 300 crore and creation of new posts is gathering dust in chief minister (CM) Prithviraj Chavan’s office since November 30, 2010. In the first week of ..
MCI plans to conduct exams for MBBS students 29/Mar/2011
As part of its proposals to make the undergraduate medical education programme more qualitative, the Medical Council of India plans to conduct licentiate examinations for MBBS students before they qualify for their graduate degrees. The MCI intends to conduct licentiate examination after internship completion to ..
Semester trouble: DU teachers complain of intimidation 29/Mar/2011
Amid a fervent debate on the issue of semesterisation of education in Delhi University, many teachers are perplexed over what they call an incomprehensible hurry of imposing the system and the "intimidatory" tactics being used by the administration. As the University readies to roll out new syllabi ..
Two new blocks of Hyderabad-based research institute inaugurated 29/Mar/2011
Union Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation M S Gill and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy inaugurated two new blocks in the C R Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences (AIMSCS) in the University of Hyderabad. The Biological and Environmental Sciences ..

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