Education News in India

CVC does not have jurisdiction over IIT-Kharagpur an autonomous body .. 26/Mar/2013
In wake of Central Vigilance Commission's directive to the Centre to initiate action against three IIT professors for their alleged involvement in a scam, IIT Kharagpur has claimed it is an autonomous body and the corruption watchdog has no jurisdiction over it. Filing an affidavit before the Delhi High ..
Words with emotional content in books has steadily decreased throughout .. 26/Mar/2013
According to new research, the use of words with emotional content in books has steadily decreased throughout the last century. Researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Sheffield, and Durham also found a divergence between American and British English, with the former ..
Students paying the cost for poor attendance 26/Mar/2013
Dozens of students, under Osmania University (OU) as well as Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), are complaining of being forced to pay Rs 5,000-Rs 10,000 for getting pardon for attendance shortage. Only students who have more than 75% or 80% attendance are allowed to take the exams by ..
Gujarat Private Universities (Amendment) Bill will pave the path for .. 26/Mar/2013
A bill to establish three new private universities in the state will be tabled in the assembly next week. The Gujarat Private Universities (Amendment) Bill will pave the path for establishing Lakulish Yoga University in Ahmedabad, Team Lease Skills University-ITI at Tarsali in Vadodara, and CU Shah University in Wadhwan...
Mumbai University pulling all stops to conduct the exams smoothly 26/Mar/2013
Mumbai University seems to have pulled out all the stops to ensure that exams are not hampered by the ongoing teachers' exam boycott. The university on Monday issued a circular, asking colleges to assign invigilation work to bank employees, government servants, NGOs, former students, school teachers, non-teaching ..
Policy for Indian students studying abroad to cover unforeseen expenses 25/Mar/2013
A private general insurance company has launched a policy for Indian students studying abroad or planning to do so. The policy pays for expenses incurred by the immediate family member if they visited the insured student in case of emergency or if the student had to visit them in similar circumstances. ..
Janalakshmi-Manipal Institute of Financial Inclusion inaugurated in .. 25/Mar/2013
Janalakshmi Financial Services and Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE) have launched Janalakshmi-Manipal Institute of Financial Inclusion (JMIFI) in Bangalore. The 3-week residential programme currently offered covers all aspects of basic service delivery to the financially excluded. The institute was inaugurated ..
Tele-presence facility provided by Cisco helps BITS Pilani connect all its .. 25/Mar/2013
BITS-Pilani now has all its campuses connected thanks to the tele-presence facility provided by Cisco as a part of a cross-campus technology initiative named BITSConnect 2.0. Cisco on Monday announced the successful deployment of Cisco tele-presence, video conferencing and Cisco Web-ex. BITS Pilani is now ..
DU facing dissent from a section of teachers and academicians on its for .. 25/Mar/2013
With just three months remaining for the start of a new session, Delhi University is facing dissent from a section of teachers and academicians on its much-hyped four-year undergraduate programme. Members of the Task Force, who formulated this structure, say that "it is to increase the possibility of ..
Government to launch improved version of Aakash Tablet 25/Mar/2013
HRD minister M M Pallam Raju said here, improved version of the Aakash tablet is on the anvil after the successful launch of three versions, a "fantastic initiative" of the HRD ministry. "It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be ..

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