Students and parents are spending sleepless nights as ISC has advanced its scheduled (Class XII) exams by two weeks. With the preliminary examination concluding only by the end of January in many schools, students will have to reschedule their study timetable.
Parents say the Council for Indian ..
Karnataka has decided to go ahead with its Common Entrance Test (CET) for MBBS and BDS in May 2013. But there's a rider: the move is subject to the decision of the Supreme Court, which is due to hear the case on January 15, 16 and 17. Earlier, the state had directed students to appear for National Eligibility Cum ..
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will be conducting Students Global Aptitude Index (SGAI) from 2013 in an attempt to help students of classes IX and X to choose subjects for their senior secondary classes.
SGAI will be conducted in February next year to provide complete counselling ..
Andhra University College of Engineering (AUCE) has become the first state-run educational institution in the state to install a bio-metric thumb impression attendance system on its campus, to keep check on students bunking classes and improve their attendance percentages to avoid the possibility of disqualification ..
The three-day National Convention on Quality Concepts, organised by the Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI), started at IIT-Kanpur on Monday with a formal inauguration ceremony at the auditorium ground in the evening. A colourful cultural event was held to set the mood of the QCFI members who had come from places far ..
Two CBSE schools stand to lose their affiliation after they failed to submit details of the vehicles plying their students past the deadline given by the government. The divisional commissioner on Monday instructed the directorate of public instructions (DPI) of the school education department to take action against the ..
The Punjab government has decided to start " Radio Classrooms" in all the government primary schools from December 20 to bring qualitative improvement in the state education.
The government, under its 'Parvesh project', would telecast a special 20 minutes education programme through the regional ..
Jamia Millia Islamia has set up a human rights cell at the university in order to advance the cause of human rights. The university already runs a Masters programme in human rights studies under its department of political science.
Students can be part of the cell by participating in research activities ..
A 2,800-year-old Mummy of an Egyptian priest Nesperennub, has made Mumbai its resting place thanks to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) formerly known as Prince of Wales Museum and British Museum, London. The mummy will be on display until March 24, 2013 at CSMVS.
Bilwa Kulkarni, ..
The Kerala High Court on Monday quashed the new qualifying criteria prescribed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) after holding the National Eligibility Test (NET) for lectureships.
Allowing a batch of writ petitions challenging the new criteria, Justice P.R. Ramachandran Nair held that the ..