Hyderabad, October 07: The transport department has made it mandatory that both parents’ committee and the school management should jointly verify fitness of school vehicles every month. The decision was taken after recent instances of mishaps involving school and college buses.
New Delhi, October 07: Winds of change will soon be blowing through the Delhi University, if sources are to be believed, when a woman takes over as its vice chancellor (VC) for the first ever time.
A senior official of the university said: “Deepak Pental’s five-year term as the vice chancellor has come to an end and from what we have come to know, Meenakshi Gopinath, who is the principal of the Lady Shri Ram college, will take over.”
New Delhi, October 03: CBSE-conducted engineering and medical entrance examinations could be redesigned and held online if the premier educational board has its way.
The ‘Centre for Assessment, Evaluation and Research’ which CBSE has planned to set up with a partner organization on public-private partnership mode to carry forward reforms in education will have a core group which would go through this entire exercise.
Hyderabad, October 02: All the heads of secondary schools in the state are instructed to incorporate mother’s name in addition to father’s name of students appearing for Class X public examinations in the manuscript nominal rolls and OMR-cum- ICR sheets for SSC public examinations scheduled to be held in March next year. The last date for payment of examination fee is October 30.
Application forms can be had from the schools or the district educational officers concerned.
New Delhi, October 02: When it comes to taking any decisions on the hallowed portals of engineering and management education, even a visionary and an overzealous human resource development minister like Kapil Sibal has to contend with the slow and time-consuming process of decision-making.
The need for de-stressing the transition from secondary schools to graduate programmes in engineering is something everyone agrees on. But the way to reduce multiplicity of exams has eluded the Council of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
Chandigarh, September 29: Union Minister of Human Resource and Development Kapil Sibal will lay the foundation stone of Indian Institute of Management-Rohtak at Garnawathi area in Haryana’s Rohtak district on October 1.
Besides Sibal, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development D Purandeswari and Rohtak MP Deepender Singh Hooda would be among the dignitaries who will attend the function, an official spokesman said.
–Agencies
Mumbai, September 29: The Annamalai University Distance Education has declared the results of various courses.
The Annamalai University has published the results online.
The Directorate of Annamalai University Distance Education has announced the results on September 29, 2010.
New Delhi, September 27: Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia Monday asked the state education ministry to make it mandatory for all schools, including private ones, to verify the antecedents of drivers and helpers ferrying schoolchildren.
She also said all institutes should have provisions for counselling.
Jammu, September 27: As schools reopened in the Kashmir Valley Monday after a gap of over three months, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah advised the media not to ‘hype’ the event ‘because the lives of children are at stake’.
Talking to newspersons on the sidelines of a government function, Abdullah said: ‘My request to all of you in the media would be that the opening of schools in the valley should not be played up’ as he feared it may bring harm the children’s way.
New Delhi, September 27: The National Board of Examinations has published the results for various examinations.
The board ahs also announced the result for Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE).
The FMGE September 2010 result is available at official website of National Board of Examinations http://www.natboard.edu.in/.
Candidates are advised to visit the aforementioned website to view the results.
Students will have to select the course first than enter the roll number to find the result.
—Agencies
New Delhi, September 26: In order to assess the ability of students, the CBSE will introduce a psychological aptitude test for class X on the lines of similar exams held in other parts of the world.
CBSE will hold this exam under Students Global Aptitude Index (SGAI).
CBSE’s SGAI incharge Rama Sharma said, “The exam will be held for class X and the first paper might be on January 15, 2011. The interested students have to pay Rs 100 to appear in the exam.”
The main aim of holding the exam is to know about the students’ interest, their psychology and their skill levels, Sharma said.
Hyderabad, September 26: In a bid to help students community and working professionals to improve their English language and communication skills, Ebek Language Laboratories launched an online English language solutions here today.
Ebek is an agent of the Cambridge ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), a department of University of Cambridge. Cambridge ESOL developed BULAT S (Business Language Testing Service) online course under the banner ‘Cambridge one’.
Hyderabad, September 26: The government is planning to bring in changes in the existing curriculum to provide quality education in the state, higher education minister D Sridhar Babu has said.
He was the chief guest at the Indo-Global Education Summit 2010 curtain raiser, organised by the Indus Foundation here today. Sridhar Babu released the brochure of the summit, which will be held in December 3 in the city.
Hyderabad, September 26: The non-teaching staff of English and Foreign Languages University, who have been on strike for a week demanding immediate implementation of the Compulsory Promotion Scheme, have threatened to intensify their agitation and launch relay hunger strike on Monday.
Holding the vice-chancellor responsible for the delay in the implementation of the scheme, the 145-odd employees burnt him in effigy at the university crossroads today.
Hyderabad, September 26: With a huge increase in the number of engineering colleges and seats, more than 43,034 seats fell vacant in both engineering and pharmacy colleges across the state after the allotment of seats for first phase of counselling was announced here tonight. Though the officials have announced that the second phase of web counselling will commence from October 5, sources said that at least 25,000 of the 1.8 lakh seats in the engineering stream under convener quota are likely to remain vacant in the end.
New Delhi, September 25: Extending a friendly hand towards the common people of India, US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer Friday did voluntary service at a New Delhi Municipal Council school here.
The US ambassador, along with his wife Sally, his children and other participants from the America-India Foundation and Clinton Foundation contributed towards painting a classroom in the school located in a poor neighbourhood.
‘President Obama has asked me to serve as an ambassador to all of India, specially to the common people,’ Roemer said.
Hyderabad, September 24: Students taking up M.Tech. and M.Pharm. courses in private, unaided colleges will have to pay marginally more from this year.
Their tuition fee has been hiked from Rs 55,000 to Rs 57,000 per year for students taking the convener quota (A category).
For seats in the management quota (B category), the fee has been hiked from Rs 1.1 lakh to Rs 1.25 lakh.
Aizawl, September 24: President Pratibha Patil Friday said India intended to increase enrolment in higher education from the present 14 million to about 40 million.
‘Higher education has been accorded priority in our country. It is our aim to increase gross enrolment ratio in higher education to 30 percent by the year 2020, which means almost tripling the enrolment from the present 14 million to about 40 million,’ Patil said here at the the sixth convocation of the Mizoram University.
Rajasthan, September 23: Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) has published the Sanskrit teachers result.
RPSC result of IIIrd Grade Sanskrit Teacher exam-2008 has been available on its official website http://www.rpsc.gov.in/.
The candidates, who appeared in the Sanskrit teachers exam (Post code-21&24) can visit the aforementioned website to view the result.
The result of IIIrd Grade Sanskrit Teacher exam-2008, held on Oct 2, 2009, April 30, 2010, is purely provisional.
Hyderabad, September 22: After BITS Pilani, it’s now the turn of Jamshedpur-based Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), one of the top five management institutes in India, to set up shop in Hyderabad. The upcoming campus will be the institute’s second campus in the country.
The state government has agreed to allot 75 acres at Jawahar Nagar on the outskirts of the city.
The proposed facility in Hyderabad is expected to augment its student intake, which currently is 240.
Hyderabad, September 21: The state government is planning to bring in a law to provide ‘education security’ to poor students belonging to recognised categories under the fee reimbursement scheme.
Officials have been asked to work out the modalities of the proposed Act to make reimbursement of fee mandatory for poor students.
New Delhi, September 22: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), the largest in the world, will open study centres in six European nations, including Germany and France, to offer personalised courses, its Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai has said.
‘We will open our centre in Paris next month. Negotiation is going on with Germany. I hope we will start in Germany by the end of this year. Our target is to open five-six centres in Europe by July 2011,’ Pillai told IANS.
Hyderabad, September 21: Students belonging to Telugunadu Student Federation (TNSF) today went on a begging spree protesting against the state government’s inordinate delay in reimbursing fee for BC students.
Students sought alms at New MLA quarters and the Secretariat.
Speaking on the occasion,Telugu Yuvatha and TNSF state presidents Beeda Ravi Chandra Yadav and N Narsi Reddy said that TNSF students went on ‘Bhikshatana’ across the state today.
They said that due to the lopsided policies of the government, the future of lakhs of students was hanging in balance.
New Delhi, September 21: As part of its initiative to integrate modern technology in distance education, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) said Tuesday it would provide a certificate programme in English through Nokia phone’s Ovi Life Tools.
‘We will initially start this programme in six districts of Maharashtra. After six months, depending on the response, we will launch it on a national level,’ IGNOU Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai told reporters.
New Delhi, September 21: Seven students from India will be offered an Australian scholarship to help them ‘shape future social and economic policy’ in India.
Peter Varghese, Australia’s high commissioner to India, Tuesday announced the Australian Leadership Award (ALA) scholarships.
‘I congratulate the seven outstanding people who have been identified for their potential to provide important policy leadership on their return home. These are individuals with the capability to shape future social and economic policy and