Education News in India

Teach the teachers first: Inadequate syllabi, short-term courses to blame .. 4/Feb/2012
The Right to Education may promise free and compulsory education to all but what will kids do without good mentors? With brilliant minds racing to get jobs in industry, the teaching profession has been hard hit. Of those still in the profession, some fail to notice conditions like dyslexia and autism and are ..
Learning begins in the assembly now 4/Feb/2012
There's more to morning assemblies than prayers now. Some schools devote up to an hour, with presentations, news and also a thought for the day. The prayers are increasingly secular, and the venues are covered halls instead of school grounds. At Delhi Public School, RK Puram, the primary section starts ..
System error: Out of memory 4/Feb/2012
Looking through the window of a classroom in a government school in East Vinod Nagar, one can see rows of children reading out formulae written on the blackboard. All the 50-odd students repeat the formulae as the teacher stands by, ensuring the kids learn them by heart. With an allocation of Rs ..
Meta-university may start from next academic session: Sibal 4/Feb/2012
HRD minister Kapil Sibal announced here on Friday that a network of universities, forming a meta-university, will allow students to pick courses from across disciplines from different institutions from the coming academic session (2012-13). He explained that this would reinterpret the concept of a ..
PepsiCo India finds Indras Advisors? at ISB 3/Feb/2012
The team from Indian School of Business won the fifth edition of 'Become Indra's Advisors Contest', a campus challenge that looks at talented young minds for the most innovative and out of the box solutions to the challenges that PepsiCo is currently facing. In this edition, over 200 entries were received from 17 ..
Teaching fraternity should be more tech-savvy: Modi 4/Feb/2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said the teaching fraternity should be more tech-savvy to bring qualitative changes in education. "A teacher's role would be crucial in bringing qualitative changes in the education sector through the usage of technology," Modi, inaugurating the annual ..
Fresh medical graduates to serve in rural areas for 3 years 3/Feb/2012
Giving a fillip to the sagging health services in West Bengal, CM Mamata Banerjee said that it will be mandatory for fresh medical graduates to serve for three years in rural areas while the performance of government doctors, nurses and medical staff would be evaluated for awards. "It will be ..
'Clamp down on pvt schools will compromise quality education' 4/Feb/2012
As the education department issue strict warnings to public and private schools against flouting provisions of the Right To Education Act, 2009, from the coming academic session, authorities of these school rued the clampdown saying quality education would be compromised if the government ended their autonomy. ..
Needed urgently: An education revolution 4/Feb/2012
No country has transited from being poor and backward to being rich and developed without an education revolution. We in India are busy boasting about our economic growth rates and geopolitical rise but have lost sight of the deep weakness of our society. The results of the Programme for International Student Assessment ..
Foreign Fixation 3/Feb/2012
A recent survey by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) revealed that of the 500 respondents only 22% wanted to stay back and work in India post the completion of their programme. 75% of the respondents wanted to land jobs in United States, 40 in the United Kingdom and 25 in Australia. ..

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