Education News in India

Campus placements: students have no choice? 10/Jan/2011
It is that time of the year when young men and women, clad in formals, sit outside offices on their college campus revising their much-rehearsed answers to anticipated questions on technology and applications. The campus recruitment drive this year, especially by Information Technology companies, which ..
Arts and science colleges still have a long way to go 10/Jan/2011
It is placement time at arts and science colleges, but the number of companies, nature of offers and the number of students getting placed, are not details colleges can boast of. According to G. Thiruvasagam, Vice-Chancellor, University of Madras, the national placement average is around 12 per cent in ..
?Bringing about equity in quality of education a challenge? 9/Jan/2011
While enhancing social inclusiveness in higher education is still considered important, the biggest challenge is bringing about equity in the quality of education, according to A.K. Dogra, Joint Secretary, University Grants Commission. Speaking on “Higher Education in India and its ..
Students asked to concentrate on developing scientific attitude 9/Jan/2011
D. Napoleon, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment has called upon the students to concentrate more on developing scientific attitude. Delivering the valedictory address at the science mela conducted at Ananda College in Devakottai near here, he said it was an era of technology, which ..
Post office turns classroom for kids 9/Jan/2011
M. Manasa, class VII student of Chitlapakkam High School, said she would send a post card to her school headmaster writing that she had enjoyed her trip to the post office. A.Nijad Sayeed, also in Class VII at Sri Ayyasamy Ayyar Middle School in Chromepet, said he often sent letters to his friend in ..
AICTE to process applications for new polytechnics 9/Jan/2011
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will process applications for approval of new polytechnics from the coming academic year and decide on extension of recognition of polytechnics and courses offered. The Ministry of Human Resources Development, in a communication early this week, has ..
Chidambaram lays stress on providing quality education for all 8/Jan/2011
Calling for quality education for all, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here on Saturday that “the systems that we put in place” (for the cause of education) should not turn barriers for the poor in accessing it. While quality education did not come cheap, education-givers should ..
Stalin urges medicos to work in rural areas after graduation 8/Jan/2011
Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Saturday appealed to the medicos to work in rural areas after their graduation. Speaking at the 21st Convocation of the Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Mr. Stalin said the State had scaled greater heights in providing health care facilities. Equal importance should be ..
Teachers in Kerala to get laptops, netbooks at subsidised rates 8/Jan/2011
In response to persistent demands from school teachers in Kerala, the ‘IT@School’ programme has readied a scheme for making available laptops and netbooks at subsidised rates for up to 50,000 teachers. “Under this scheme laptops will be available for Rs. 17,770 and netbooks for Rs. ..
IGNOU invites applications for online nutrition course 8/Jan/2011
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) invites applications for its month-long online programme on nutrition to start in February. "The main objective of the programme is to sensitize and guide, policy and programme leaders to rely more on evidence based programming for achieving ..

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