Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has started the admission process for Bachelor in Business Administration in Retailing (BBAR), the university said in a statement Friday.
Those between 18-24 years of age are eligible for the three-year course.
“Three months internship is required in the first year. On the job training and viva-voce are parts of second and third year for all students,” IGNOU said in a statement.
Canada must brand itself as a partner of choice in higher education and research and attract Asian students and researchers to the country, the head of one of Canada’s leading universities has said in a report.
The report, “Strengthening education and research connectivity between Canada and Asia: Innovative models for engagement”, was the seventh in a series commissioned by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives to explore the impact on Canada of Asia’s rise, Xinhua reported.
Adolescence is the time when one needs to be particular about food consumption, especially intake of vitamins and minerals for a healthy life. But several studies have shown that adolescents’ intake of important nutrients, as well as their performance in standard physical fitness tests, have fallen in recent years.
China spent nearly 100 billion yuan ($15.7 billion) to support education for poor students, a media report said Thursday.
The total amount spent on sponsoring students reached 98.62 billion yaun in 2011, up by 15.94 percent over the previous year, the China Daily reported.
About 130 million primary and secondary school students received free textbooks.
The government subsidy is a major initiative to boost education for all.
Indians ranked second in search queries related to education, a study released here by search engine Google India said Wednesday.
The list, topped by the US, says India has risen to second spot from the eighth position over the last four years.
“From eighth rank in 2008, there has been an explosive growth in education related searches in India in last 3-4 years. It is even ahead of China,” said Rajan Anandan, vice president and managing director, Google India.
Twenty one B Tech students of Aligarh Muslim University have been suspended for allegedly securing admission through forgery, cheating and by concealing relevant facts.
The students had secured admission in Faculty of Engineering last year.
The matter came to light this year after they had joined the university, which is conducting a full probe into such matters following the detection of 27 odd cases in July this year.
An international panel of medics will host its 61st general assembly in Mumbai Aug 9, to be attended by 1,000 delegates from across 114 countries, officials said.
This will be the International Federation of Medical Students Association’s (IFMSA) first general assembly meet in India, the official said, describing it as one of the largest international medical students meets.
Sales of virtual books have surpassed the sale of their print counterparts, according to Amazon’s UK site.
The firm, which started selling virtual books in the UK in August 2010, said this year it has sold 114 internet book downloads for every 100 print books.
Amazon’s eReader devices, the Kindle range, have been a huge seller in the UK despite the fact consumers here are charged up to 70 percent more than their US counterparts.
Indicative of the growing interaction between India and a nation that straddles the Asian and European continents, Turkish language courses are the hot flavour at the capital’s Jamia Millia Islamia, with 400 applications being received for a bachelor’s degree introduced from this year.
“The response is overwhelming. We didn’t expect it. It’s on account of a new phase of strengthening of bilateral trade relations between India and Turkey in the last few years, which has added to the demand for language experts on both sides,” university Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung told IANS.
With more than four million educated unemployed in the state, Kerala is launching what is perhaps the country’s first government-run job portal.
The portal will feature jobs in Kerala and outside the state in both the private and the public sectors. The website would be officially launched Wednesday.
Bilingual children outperform counterparts who speak only one language in problem-solving skills and creative thinking, according to a research by a British university.
A study of primary school pupils who spoke English or Italian, half of whom also spoke Gaelic or Sardinian-found that the bilingual children were significantly more successful in the tasks set for them. The Gaelic-speaking children were, in turn, more successful than the Sardinian speakers, the University of Strathclyde study claimed.
As per the report of Mrs. Nikhat Ara Shaheen incharge principal Oriental Urdu College Himayatnagar, Hyderabad, entrance test for admission into MA Urdu will be held on August 12. Hall tickets have been received by the college.
All students are hereby informed that they can collect the hall tickets from college office between 2 to 5 pm. Further details can be had from phone no 9959632384.
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Attrition rate has drastically fallen in the IT, ITeS and the BPO sector thereby coming down to the levels of about 15-20 per cent during the last six months of calendar year 2012 as against about 55-60 per cent attrition rate during the corresponding period last year, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) stated on Saturday.
Rate of attrition at all levels of the organisation has seen a fall ranging between 45-50 per cent between January-June, mostly due to a fragile global economy, according to a recent industry specific survey carried out by the Assocham.
The Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) has made all arrangements for the smooth conduct of Group IV examination across the State on August 11-12.
Talking to media persons, APPSC secretary Poonam Malakondaiah said that 9,58,333 candidates have applied for the Group IV examination against the total posts of 1,335.
She said that the examination would be conducted in the 2629 centres across the State. She asked the aspirants to download their hall tickets from the commission’s website www.appsc.gov.in
The army is giving training in vehicle driving to the unemployed youth of remote mountainous areas in Rajouri and Reasi districts of Jammu and Kashmir under ‘Operation Sadbhavna’ (goodwill).
“A driving training exercise is being organised for the unemployed youths of Talwara, Reasi and areas of Rajouri district under Operation Sadbhavna (goodwill). It will enable them to get jobs or start self-employment ventures,” an army spokesman said.
The group consists of 25 youths who are given hands-on practical training with a good student-teacher ratio.
Promising quality education and bright job prospects, 18 educational institutes from Australia are touring six cities of India as part of an “education fair”.
According to Tom Calder, trade commissioner of the Australian Trade Commission, eight Australian universities were ranked among the top 100 in the world in 2011.
“We also have lower unemployment rates compared to the United States or the United Kingdom. An Indian student with an Australian qualification will easily get employed there,” Calder told IANS here.
“The universities also offer job assistance,” he said.
In a bid to resolve the dispute over land allotted to Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus in Murshidabad, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said the varsity will be provided with 273 acres of land for setting up the institution.
Initially, during the Left Front regime, the Aligarh Muslim University was allotted 288 acres of land to set up its campus in Murshidabad district. But later on, problems cropped up over 15 acres of land within the allocated 288 acres over compensation and some political issues.
Girls and boys start grade school with different approaches to arithmetic problems – girls favour a slow and accurate approach and boys a faster but more error-prone approach.
The girls’ approach gives them an early advantage, but by the end of the sixth grade, boys had surpassed the girls, a study by the University of Missouri says.
The study found that boys showed more preference for solving arithmetic problems by reciting an answer from memory, whereas girls were more likely to compute the answer by counting.
The Kerala government has given its approval to set up of a Rs.300 crore hospital and medical college in which the diaspora will be allowed to invest, it was announced Sunday.
The Kerala Institute of Medical Education and Research will come up in Alappuzha district in three years, an official said. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy cleared the project at a cabinet meeting last week.
In his budget speech, Finance Minister K.M. Mani had announced plans to set up five government medical colleges in the state. This is the first of them.
Text messaging offer tweens a short cut to send notes to friends and family, but it could also subvert language and grammar skills, point out researchers.
When tweens write in techspeak, they often use shortcuts, such as homophones, omissions of non-essential letters and initials, to quickly and efficiently compose a text message.
A university lecturer in China has been sacked from his post for asking women students to expose their private parts and touch themselves during a test, reported Shanghai Daily.
According to Guangzhou Daily, employed with the University of south China in Hunan province’s Hengyang city, Yu Xiaohua asked women students of the School of Nursing to take off their clothes, including pants, during a test.
The test simulates the physical examination for patients.
One of America’s top research institutions, the University of South Florida’s World Centre for India Studies, is introducing an undergraduate certificate in India studies beginning end-August.
Offering a broad curriculum that focuses on history, geography, society, politics, language, culture, philosophy and religion in India, the certificate is designed to give students an informative introduction to Indian society, according to a university release.
A South Korean student plans to launch a $500 satellite built from scavenged parts in a basement, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.
“Making a satellite is no more difficult than making a cellphone,” said Song Hojun, 34, who said he built the OpenSat to show people they could achieve their dreams.
There’s a long history of do-it-yourself satellites being launched by scientific groups, but Song said his is the first satellite designed and financed by an individual.
An engineering student at university, Song regularly incorporated technology into his art pieces.
If your kid is usually found literally lost in the world of computer games, watch out! In Britain, children as young as five are being sent out of classrooms routinely for attacking fellow pupils and teachers as violent incidents in schools are on the rise.
Overall, primary, secondary and special school pupils were suspended 161,540 times in 2010 -11 for assault or verbal abuse, which is 850 pupils a day, Daily Express reported Friday.
Official statistics have revealed that about 90 youngsters, aged between five and 11, were ordered out of the classroom on daily basis in 2010-11.
A total of about 63,000 fake students entered Britain in 2011, and 59 percent of the total number of Indian pupils were bogus, a report by a British campaign group said Wednesday.
The study by Migration Watch UK, based on the findings of a Home Office pilot scheme, said the highest percentage of bogus students came from Myanmar at 62 percent.
It was followed by India, Bangladesh and Nigeria with 59 percent, a press statement said.