Education News in India

UPSC notification to give more weightage to English in the Civil Services .. 15/Mar/2013
Bowing to all-round pressure in Parliament, Government kept in abeyance the recently issued controversial notification of the UPSC which gave more weightage to English in the Civil Services exams. The announcement was made in the Lok Sabha by Minister of State for Personnel V Narayanasamy after an ..
Competition to hone the creative and analytical skills of budding lawyers .. 15/Mar/2013
A national level competition aimed at honing the creative and analytical skills of budding lawyers was inaugurated at Amity University here. The three-day competition was inaugurated by Justice Dipak Misra, Judge, Supreme Court of India, Prof. A K Koul, Vice-Chancellor, National University Of Study and ..
EDMC signs MoU with Tech Mahindra Foundation to set up In-service Teachers .. 15/Mar/2013
In a bid to improve quality of education in its schools, East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) will set up a teachers' training institute. EDMC signed an MoU with Tech Mahindra Foundation to set up 'In-service Teachers Education Institute', which is likely to start functioning from April 1, officials ..
Move to count marks of English subject in the civil services mains .. 15/Mar/2013
The Union Public Service Commission move to count marks of English subject (optional) in the civil services mains examination was today decried by Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi who said it would hurt the prospects of aspirants from rural background. "In the UPSC(mains) examination where ..
TIS hosts its seventh annual Forum for Learning Disability in .. 15/Mar/2013
TATA Interactive Systems (TIS), recently hosted its seventh annual Forum for Learning Disability. Held in collaboration with Citi Academy for Special Education (CASE), the 2-day meet centered on the theme ˜Learning Disabilities“ a more inclusive perspective that was aimed at creating ..
Attano partners with AIETS to launch 30-day revision pack for JEE 2013 14/Mar/2013
Class XII students who have struggled to work for the whole year to complete their syllabus for Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) can now sit back and opt for online revision packs. The revision pack designed by two firms specialising in education, follows a unique approach covering the complete JEE ..
Three years post implementation of RTE there is very little to show 15/Mar/2013
Is the Right to Education a basic right or just a scheme? With the implementation of RTE completing three years on March 31, there's very little to show. To assess the status of its implementation, the Joint Operation for Social Help, JOSH, initiated a study in Delhi schools. The survey carried out ..
No emphasis on any particular language but only sought to judge a .. 15/Mar/2013
Amid criticism of new UPSC rules making English compulsory in civil services exam, a top academician, who headed the panel set up to recommend changes, said it had not emphasised on any particular language but only sought to judge a candidate's communication ability. "The committee suggested ..
Job burnout can significantly increase the risk of heart disease 14/Mar/2013
Job burnout is a physical, cognitive, and emotional exhaustion that can result from stress at work. In the study, those who were identified as being in the top 20 per cent of the burnout scale were found to have a 79 per cent increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), the buildup of plaque in the ..
Proposal to educationally empower girl students belonging to the BPL .. 14/Mar/2013
As many as 6,902 poor girl students, of which over 75 per cent is from Kashmir region, were covered under a welfare scheme in Jammu and Kashmir. Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand has said that 6,902 girl students of poor families have been brought under the ambit of 'Beti Anmol Scheme' proposed to ..

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