Education News in India

Maharashtra CM announces scholarships for students of classical music 11/Feb/2011
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today announced here that state government would grant scholarships for students of classical music in memory of late maestro Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. Chavan also said the government would institute an annual life-time achievement award in the field of classical music.<br ..
Railways to conduct re-exam for loco pilots post on Sunday 11/Feb/2011
Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) will conduct a re-examination for about 2000 posts of assistant loco pilots on Sunday under a new system. The exams for the post of assistant loco pilots were cancelled in June last year after the question papers were leaked. The leakage case is being probed by the CBI. ..
Govt push for open schooling system 11/Feb/2011
Government has proposed to adopt flexible accreditation norms to develop open schooling network in far-flung and inaccessible areas and in informal sectors. It has also proposed to develop quality parameters for open schooling courses, making them relevant for livelihood and in conformity with the National ..
IIT-Madras launches mega national server 11/Feb/2011
IIT-Madras has developed a mega server which can be used to download without any glitches massive and best of academic material by students free of cost, at a time when the faculty-student ratio is miserably low in the country. The server will help the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning ..
HRD Ministry forms panel to hear 44 varsities deemed unfit 11/Feb/2011
HRD Ministry has set up a 3 member committee to give a hearing to 44 deemed universities that were found unfit to be accorded varsity status as they lack appropriate academic infrastructure standards. The committee will be headed by additional secretary of HRD Ministry A S Thakur. Two other additional ..
IIM-Trichy to commence functioning from June 2011 11/Feb/2011
The IIM's new centre here would commence functioning from the academic year starting June, its director has said. "Already the process of recruiting expert faculty members has started. We have had overwhelming response and as many 365 applications were received for 12 positions of full time ..
EThames Graduate School opens India campus 9/Feb/2011
EThames Graduate School, one of London's leading colleges, opened its India campus in Hyderabad recently. Daggubati Purandeswari, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, inaugurated the college, where students can benefit from the best teaching methods and latest classroom technology. The campus ..
Govt must give edu vouchers? 9/Feb/2011
The government can make its investments in education more effective by providing students with scholarship vouchers instead of aiding schools," said management guru and author Gurucharan Das during a lecture at the United World Colleges meet . According to Das, one out of four teachers at government ..
Act against school interviews, govt told 9/Feb/2011
•Do you have relatives abroad? •How will you decorate your child’s room? •Are you willing to cough up an extra fee if your child’s school sends the class on a picnic abroad? •What car do you drive? •What’s the size of ..
Placements calling! 9/Feb/2011
It was raining placements at IIFT with companies making a beeline to recruit the students. A total of 96 companies participated in the placement process for a batch of 209 students. With 37 new recruiters, the placements were completed with offers made by 77 companies. The finance sector was the largest recruiter with ..

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