The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education at its meeting on Wednesday has decided to implement the continuous comprehensive evaluation (CCE) method of assessment in Class IX from 2014-15. The CCE will be put in force for Class X students in the subsequent year.
"The board has formed a ..
The Allahabad high court cancelled the recognition of five BEd colleges of east UP affiliated to Gorakhpur University, Observing that education must be left pure and should not be permitted to be corrupted by the use of money.
The cancellation would come into effect from 2014-2015.
These five BEd ..
Sam Pitroda, adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on public information infrastructure and innovation, on Thursday iterated his concern over the quality of education, which he felt was still at its primitive stage, in India. During an interactive session organized by the Bhawanipur Education Society College, Pitroda ..
Out of the 11,556 students who voted in the 'FYUP referendum' conducted in Delhi University colleges on Thursday, 10,519 students said 'no' to FYUP. The voter turnout was even better than DU Students' Union elections, considering the referendum covered only a quarter of DU.
While 101 votes were invalid, ..
Harvard Law School professor Ashish Nanda's appointment as the director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) may attract senior faculty members from foreign universities to the prestigious institute.
Faculty members said that the institute is a preferred destination for young faculty ..
Even as IITs were toying with the idea of having a subjective test in the second level of entrance exams-JEE Advanced-it will not be implemented for the 2014 exam. Senior officials said there will not be many changes in the pattern and format of that exam.
A senior IIT official said having a subjective ..
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore announced a three-day executive education program in luxury business. Titled 'Strategic Management of Luxury Business: Managing Luxury Products and Services - from Concept to Consumer', the program is targeted at entrepreneurs and CEOs of new luxury businesses, GMs/ profit ..
GATE 2014 will have a new paper "Ecology and Evolution" with all the 22 papers taken up will be conducted through an online Computer Based Test (CBT)., taking the total number of papers in GATE to a total of 22.
With all the 22 papers to be taken up through an online Computer Based Test (CBT), ..
In a joint effort, IIT Madras and Harvard University has completed a landmark study on the impact of private sector participation (PSP) in infrastructure.
PSPs have been increasingly used for infrastructure development all over the world. However, impact of PSP on project outcomes is still unclear.
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Forest College and Research Institute, Mettupalayam, of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University signed an agreement with Ambiply Panel and Door for promotion of Melia Dubia, a raw material for plywood industry, in Tamil Nadu, through agro and farm forestry sytemConsortia Model Contract Plywood farming.
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