Education News in India

Universities gear up for elections 18/Jan/2012
It's in the air once again. There is anticipation and excitement, some butterflies too but an overall optimism prevails. Jawaharlal Nehru University students are gearing up to hold their students' union elections after a gap of more than three years, during which elections had stood banned. Student ..
Teachers have to balance demands from various quarters: Howard Gardner 18/Jan/2012
After challenging certain conventional notions of education with his ‘Theory of Multiple Intelligences', renowned developmental psychologist Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been involved in areas such as design of ..
Have a target to hit 17/Jan/2012
“What is your long-term goal?” This is a common question in interviews, be it for jobs or admission. Most students find it difficult to answer this question. But what are these goals and what is the role they play in life? And should we have goals? Or rather, what is the problem if we do not ..
Guidance Plus: When structural safety is set in stone 17/Jan/2012
On November 7, 2008, a three-storey school building in Haiti collapsed. As many as 93 people, mostly children, were killed and over 150 injured. Fortin Augustin, a preacher, whose negligence had led to the accident, said that he constructed the building all by himself, saying he did not need an engineer as he had good ..
Autonomy for pursuit of knowledge 17/Jan/2012
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development is actively pushing legislation on higher education reforms in Parliament, including the much-debated Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011. N.R. Madhava Menon, renowned legal educationist and member of the task force that drafted the Bill, says that it is a radical ..
Governance is the new entity 17/Jan/2012
In 2011, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) changed the pattern and syllabus of the Civil Services Preliminary Examination following recommendations made by various committees, commissions, and study groups, such as the Alagh Committee (2000-2001), the Hota Committee (2004), and the Second Administrative Reforms ..
It's time for Plan B 17/Jan/2012
The proverbial CAT is out of the bag. With the Common Admission Test scores declared earlier this week – most of the Indian Institutes of Management have declared their shortlists for Stage Two – the entire crowd of over 1.8 lakh MBA aspirants who took the CAT are divided into two categories: those who still ..
SC asks Centre to place before it CAG report on NTRO 17/Jan/2012
The Supreme Court asked the Centre to place CAG report on alleged irregularities in purchasing of equipments by National Technical Research Organisation(NTRO), a premier technical intelligence gathering agency. A bench of justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad asked the government to place the report in a ..
More children in rural areas preferring pvt schools: report 16/Jan/2012
Enrolling in private schools is no more confined to urban centres alone as an education report, released today, says increasing number of children in rural areas are also preferring the private ones. Though the report did not specify any reason for this, it says enrolment between 6 and 14 age group ..
Regular exercising can raise your income also 16/Jan/2012
Here's the ultimate motivation for regular exercising - apart from helping you stay fit, workouts can also boost your pay packet, a new study has claimed. Researchers at Cleveland State University have carried out the study and found that jogging, swimming or even lifting weights in the gym at least ..

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