Education News in India

Assam to check teacher absenteeism in schools 9/Apr/2012
All schools in Assam will soon be connected with the Internet, through which the school administration is required to upload a daily report on staff attendance, to check cases of teacher absenteeism. Assam Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said as part of the Rashtriya Madhyamik ..
DSE's order quashed by High Court bench 9/Apr/2012
The Madurai High Court bench has quashed the Director of School Education's order, taking over the administration of an aided minority school in Kanyakuamari district and said any power exercised to do so is barred under provisions of the Tamil Nadu Recognised Private Schools (Regulation) Act, 1973. ..
Odisha to get new medical college, two ITIs 9/Apr/2012
Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde announced establishment of a medical college in Sundergarh district, assuring allotment of 50 per cent of electricity to Odisha from the two proposed mega power projects in the state. He told reporters after meeting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik that,"The ..
Computer literacy rate up 9/Apr/2012
State Finance minister O.Panneeselvam said, computer literacy among students in Tamil Nadu has gone up from 12.6 per cent to 15.6 per cent after the launch of free Laptop distribution scheme for college students. He was distributing laptops under the scheme to students of Cardamom Planters' Association at ..
RTE report reveals a bleak picture 9/Apr/2012
A memorandum was submitted to the Prime Minister last week by the RTE Forum, unhappy with the slow progress in implementing the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act. The RTE Act, which came into force on April 1, 2009, guarantees the provision of free and compulsory education to children ..
JEE gets tougher than last year 9/Apr/2012
With slightly lengthy questions and a moderately difficult Mathematics paper, the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) 2012 ended up tougher than last year's test, said most students who took the exam here on Sunday. The exam, held at 1,067 centres across the country, decides admission to nearly 9,618 undergraduate ..
Engineering colleges facing faculty shortage 8/Apr/2012
About 30 private engineering colleges affiliated to the Anna University of Technology, Chennai, which has 140 such colleges affiliated to it, lack adequate faculty. On initiating action against colleges that do not conform to university norms, the university said that the compliance reports submitted by ..
UK university signs agreement with HR College 7/Apr/2012
UK's University of Westminster has signed an agreement with the city-based HR College of Commerce and Economics offering an extensive choice of over 300 courses to students. University of Westminster Pro-Vice-Chancellor Myszka Guzkowska said in a release here. "India has historically been an ..
US hiring slows down 7/Apr/2012
Amid uncertainty about the economy's growth prospects, the US job market slowed in March as companies hit the brakes on hiring. The unemployment rate dipped, but mostly because more Americans stopped looking for work. The Labor Department said that the economy added 120,000 ..
Pune institute's archives go digital to aid academic research 7/Apr/2012
About 40,000 manuscripts from archives of the city-based century-old Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal (BISM) have been digitised in a massive drive to preserve historical documents, offering a treat to the interested academic research community from all over the world. The gigantic work ..

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