Education News in India

We need to invest more in education 22/Jan/2012
Three recent studies point to poor learning standards in our schools - OECD's Pisa study, NGO Pratham's Aser report for rural India and Wipro-Education Initiatives' study of India's top schools. What's wrong? The basic flaw in the Pisa study is that it only takes Shanghai into consideration and not the rest of ..
Drop outs higher in villages, reveals Students survey 20/Jan/2012
Inspired by the values of obligation to their society, a group of students of the Government Higher Secondary School at Kottodi, near here, undertook a survey to assess the situation leading to drop out from schools only to find that many of the unlucky ones are driven to go for child labour depriving fundamental right ..
Teach For India graduates add value to lives 21/Jan/2012
A break from a bluechip job to teach kids who are not even counted as significant by the system, initially, sounded like an idea similar to losing ones balance. But looking back at the stint, every day was worth the while, everything suddenly worthwhile. Ask Sharad Gangal, executive vice-president of HR ..
Science Prodigy 21/Jan/2012
For many school students, the subject of science rings alarm bells. The formulae in physics, chemistry and the lab experiments of biology are often a cause of anxiety amongst children. But Aniket Bajbai has conquered all these fears by winning a silver medal at the International Junior Science Olympiad at Durban, South ..
Experiential learning provides the students self-reflective space and time 21/Jan/2012
After serving the education sector for over four decades, Indira Parikh, former dean of IIM Ahmedabad and currently the founding president of FLAME was awarded the Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Award at the 19th Dewang Mehta Business School Awards for her outstanding contributions as an educator. Her spirit of ..
Old is gold 21/Jan/2012
Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania has a history of admitting military veterans, both from the US Military and from other militaries around the world. Last year, the MBA programme had over 45 military veterans, including students from Singapore, Israel, Korea, Russia and Australia. We also ..
Universities should have plan to seek grants: UGC 20/Jan/2012
The UGC has asked universities to prepare their own plans for seeking grants from the commission for development purpose. This step is aimed at granting more autonomy to the varsities. So far, expert committees deputed by UGC used to visit the universities to assess financial needs of ..
Atlas of Tamil Nadu released 21/Jan/2012
A Micro watershed Atlas of Tamil Nadu was released by State Agriculture Minister S Damodaran. Besides being a useful document for planning and development of water resources and implementing soil conservation measures,it will also be useful for scientists to identify geographic unit for the ..
Teachers to gherao education minister's residence 20/Jan/2012
School teachers here have decided to gherao the state education minister at her residence on February two to press for their demands like promotion from basic cadres and creation of new posts through enforcement of the Right to Education Act. This was disclosed by president of the Haryana Vidyalya ..
Tag all petitions on TN govt move to shift ACL: HC 20/Jan/2012
The Madras High Court directed its Registrar(Judicial) to tag all petitions filed in connection with the Tamil Nadu government's move to shift Anna Centenary Library from its present location to the Directorate of Public Instruction(DPI) complex. When petitions challenging the government's ..

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