Education and Career

Mumbai, April 08: The Maharashtra government plans to bifurcate all universities in the state to improve the quality of education and administration.

Replying to the debate on the budgetary demands of the higher and technical education department, minister Rajesh Tope told the legislative assembly that a committee had been set up to study the issue and advise the government how to move ahead with the proposal.

The report will be submitted in three months, he said. The aim, he added, is to have 250 colleges affiliated to one university.

New Delhi, April 07: If you are sure you want to be in animation, graphic design or hospitality, and don’t get the point why you need to slog through maths, biology or economics in classes 11 and 12 to get there, here is good news for you.

Union minister for human resource development Kapil Sibal is planning to introduce vocational studies as a stream in senior secondary classes for all educational boards. The stream will be on a par with the science, commerce and arts streams.

New Delhi, April 06: Entrance exams to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences’ (AIIMS) will soon go the Common Admission Test (CAT) way – online – by 2012. AIIMS administration wants to conduct its entrance exams for undergraduate, PG and other courses, online, on the lines of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) to ensure total transparency. The other online model being considered is from Manipal Medical College.

New Delhi, April 06: A student expelled by St Xavier’s School, in Delhi’s Civil Lines area, for failing in Class VI has successfully invoked the Right to Education Act against her school, five days after it came into force. Referring to the Act, the Delhi High Court ordered the school to take back Suman Bhati (12).

New Delhi, April 05: A Rs 6000 crore National Knowledge Network programme will be implemented in the next five years to facilitate interlinking of agricultural, medical colleges, research institutions and other academic organisations, Union Communications and IT Minister A Raja said.

The Network’s purpose was to enable research students and others to have interaction and keep themselves abreast of development in their respective areas.

Abu Dhabi, April 04: Indian and other foreign curriculum schools in Abu Dhabi will be allowed to expand operations under a new plan aimed at improving standard of private school education in the country.

“ADEC is working to enhance the private education sector by improving standards while maintaining reasonable fees and increasing capacity for our multicultural communities. We are committed to ensure that every child of school age has access to an affordable and high quality education,” said Mugheer Khamis Al-Khaili, Director General of ADEC.

Hyderabad, April 04: The SSC examinations that were postponed because of the curfew in parts of the city will now be held from April 9, the director of government examinations announced on Saturday. The next exam of Social Studies Paper II will be held as per the original schedule on April 6.

New Delhi/Hamilton, April 03:In the backdrop of the cabinet nod to allow foreign universities to set up campuses in India, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal is to tour New Zealand next week to seek closer ties in the educational sector.

According to an HRD ministry official, Sibal is expected to tour New Zealand for three days beginning April 11.

New Delhi, April 03:The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has signed a memorandum of understanding with TASMAC (Training and Advanced Studies in Management and Communications), London School of Business, to open an international partner institute.

According to the MoU, signed by IGNOU registrar U.S. Tolia and TASMAC’s chairman and managing director Giri Dua, “the institute will offer about two dozens of IGNOU academic programmes and these would benefit not only learners of the Indian diaspora but also transnational students”, IGNOU said in a statement Saturday.

New Delhi, April 03: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has signed a memorandum of understanding with TASMAC (Training and Advanced Studies in Management and Communications), London School of Business, to open an international partner institute.

According to the MoU, signed by IGNOU registrar U.S. Tolia and TASMAC’s chairman and managing director Giri Dua, “the institute will offer about two dozens of IGNOU academic programmes and these would benefit not only learners of the Indian diaspora but also transnational students”, IGNOU said in a statement Saturday.

New Delhi, April 01: Prime minister Manmohan Singh today said the government was committed to ensuring that all children irrespective of gender and social category have access to education and fund constraints would not be allowed to hamper implementation of the the Right to Education Act.

Education is now a fundamental right of every child Addressing the nation as the Right to Education Act went into force today, he said, “The government is committed to ensuring that all children irrespective of gender and social category, have access to education.”

New Delhi, March 31: A Class 12 student has been arrested for making hoax calls claiming that bombs had been planted onboard Indigo flights, police said Wednesday.

Debasish Banerjee, 18, was arrested from Kolkata for making two hoax calls from his mobile phone March 12 and March 13. He claimed that a bomb had been planted on Indigo flights at Delhi’s domestic airport.

Lucknow, March 30: The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) will offer religious counselling and spiritual teaching programmes to help students overcome psychological stress, an official said.

“Within two-three days we will launch such programmes,” AMU’s official spokesperson Rahat Abrar told the media on telephone from Aligarh, some 300 km from Lucknow.

“On the directions of Vice Chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis, we have roped in religious leaders to help students overcome their anxieties and mental stress,” he added.

Hyderabad, March 28: The four per cent reservation provided to Muslims, which will continue now on the strength of the stay granted by the Supreme Court on the High Court order, will help over 11,000 candidates every year in getting admissions in various educational institutions to do professional courses.

New Delhi, March 28: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is planning to start an Information Communication Technology (ICT) cluster in five South Asian countries for capacity building in education sector.

The varsity, has already given a presentation outlining the details of the plan to parliamentarians of Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka at the first ever contact group meeting of parliamentarians on education organised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).

Chandigarh, March 28: Private schools of this union territory (UT) are up in arms against the Chandigarh administration over the surprise inspections being conducted of their premises. But the education department says it is determined to crack down on private schools that “function like business units”.

Based on its surprise checks, the UT administration is sending recommendations to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in New Delhi, apprising it about errant private schools here.

Panaji, March 27: Goa government today refused to ban use of mobiles in primary and higher secondary schools contending that a circular has already been issued to the institutes seeking to curb misuse of cell phones.

Education Minister Atanasio Monserratte today said the managements of institutes should be responsible for curbing the misuse of the cell phones in high schools and higher secondary schools.

Ghaziabad, March 27: A girl student appearing for her high school examination was made to take off her shirt in the classroom by a woman invigilator who suspected her of concealing some written material for cheating inside her clothes. The girl’s parents Friday protested against the incident.

The girl was appearing for the Uttar Pradesh board high school examination in Modi Nagar of Ghaziabad Thursday.

London, March 27: Paedophiles targeting children online could be tracked down by an analysis of the way they use their keyboard.

Researchers believe technology could be used to determine a computer typist’s age, sex and culture within 10 keystrokes by monitoring their speed and rhythm.

The murder of Ashleigh Hall, a teenager from Darlington, last year by a predator she met on Facebook has raised fresh calls for extra security to protect young people on the internet.

Professor Roy Maxion, associate professor at Newcastle University, has been carrying out the research in America.

New Delhi, March 26: The government on Thursday approved a project to connect 1500 educational institutes across the country through high-speed data communication network.

A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) approved the establishment of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) at an outlay of Rs 5,990 crore to be implemented by the National Informatics Centre over a period of 10 years, a spokesperson said.

New Delhi, March 26: India will need at least 800 more universities and another 35,000 colleges in the next ten years to increase the percentage of students going for higher education from the present 12.4 percent in the country, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said on Wednesday.

New Delhi, March 26: Centrally run educational institutions may get additional three years to implement the 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs). The human resource development ministry has prepared an amendment to that effect in the Central Educational Institut-ions (Reservation in Admissions) Act) 2006, currently awaiting law ministry clearance.

Muzaffarpur, March 25: The district administration here has issued a ‘controversial’ circular making it mandatory for students appearing in annual exams in state-run primary and high schools to mention their caste in answer sheets, otherwise their results would be withheld.

The circular, issued by Bihar Education Project (BEP) officials in Muzaffarpur district, said it would be useful to tabulate the percentage of students belonging to a particular caste appearing in annual examinations from class I to VIII for ‘honest assessment’.

New Delhi, March 25: Union human resource development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal has urged Indian industrialists figuring among the Forbes list of the world’s top 10 billionaires to invest in education.

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani is placed fourth on the list. He has already met Sibal on two occasions regarding a university conforming to global standards that he wants to set up.

Sibal also wanted lending rates for loans to private players in education to be reduced.

New Delhi, March 24: India will need at least 800 more universities and another 35,000 colleges in the next ten years to increase the percentage of students going for higher education from the present 12.4 per cent in the country, India’s HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said here Wednesday.

“India has about 480 university and about 22,000 colleges.