Education and Career

New Delhi, March 15: Over three million students across India will get their exam results faster and more conveniently as the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Sunday created six zones to decentralise the evaluation of answer scripts.

“IGNOU today (Sunday) decentralised the evaluation of answer scripts at five more zonal evaluation centers at Chennai, Patna, Pune, Lucknow and Guwahati in addition to Delhi,” university Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai said.

New Delhi, March 14: Over three million students across India will get their exam results faster and more conveniently as the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Sunday created six zones to decentralise the evaluation of answer scripts.

“IGNOU today (Sunday) decentralised the evaluation of answer scripts at five more zonal evaluation centers at Chennai, Patna, Pune, Lucknow and Guwahati in addition to Delhi,” university Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai said.

Shimla, March 14: With education being its top priority, the Himachal Pradesh government has allocated 17 per cent of the budget outlay for the financial year 2010-11 on the sector, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said today.

The government has proposed 99 per cent subsidy under Pandit Deen Dayal Kisan Bagwaan Samridhi Yojana to BPL families, Dhumal said, addressing a public meeting at Bandrol in Kullu district.

After laying foundation stone of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalya at Bandrol, he lauded the organisation for providing free education to rural children in the country.

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Delhi,March 15:Harvard prof says only proper policies will yield demographic dividend.YOUTH power translates to wealth. The greater the number of earning youth, more the savings, faster the economic growth, higher the per capita income and quicker the reduction of poverty, said David Bloom, professor of economics and demography at Harvard University.

Aligarh, March 14: The crucial annual meeting of the Aligarh Muslim University court for electing the varsity’s next chancellor, pro-chancellor and honorary treasurer, scheduled for March 28 has been postponed, according to a varsity notification.

An influential section of the AMU court and the AMU Teachers Association had opposed the timing of the meeting on the ground that “senior varsity officials including vice chancellor P K Abdul Azis, who are facing inquiry for alleged financial irregularities, were trying to manage the election to safeguard their personal interests”.

Visakhapatnam, March 14: More than 50 candidates from Middle East countries like Iran, UAE, Yemen and also SAARC countries such as Nepal have applied for admission into GITAM Institute of Management (GIM) of GITAM University in the city.

New Delhi, March 14: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has directed the government to terminate all departmental proceedings against an IAS officer after it failed to complete inquiry against him 15 years after the alleged misappropriation of FCI stocks. “The unexplained delay in departmental proceedings against the petitioner in the context of the allegations against him appears to us to be fatal,” the CAT said.

Hyderabad, March 14: The government on Saturday set up a committee of Vice Chancellors to study Common Entrance Test for admission into professional courses and optimum utilisation of the infrastructure in universities.

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal constituted the committee, consisting of seven Vice Chancellors, at a meeting here. The committee would also suggest ways for migration of students from one university to another.

Mathura, March 13: In an effort to check cases of cheating and impersonation in its entrance test, UP Technical University has decided to videograph the examinations, an official said today. “In order to asses fairness during examination, Videography of the entire examination process would be conducted.

New Delhi, March 13: Students so depressed that they want to commit suicide, hapless teachers at a loss to comfort pupils, harried parents…Calls have been pouring in at the Delhi government’s Yuva counselling helpline for the past month thanks to the Class 10 and 12 board exams.

Ahmedabad, March 13: The online admission process of the Indian Institutes of Managements may have brought along its share of glitches but has scored in terms of going green.

Taking the admission process online in has saved 50 tonnes of paper, to produce which about 1,000 trees would have to be felled. “This is the first time a test of this magnitude has been paperless.

New Delhi, March 13: Students so depressed that they want to commit suicide, hapless teachers at a loss to comfort pupils, harried parents…Calls have been pouring in at the Delhi government’s Yuva counselling helpline for the past month thanks to the Class 10 and 12 board exams.

Kochi, March 12: AICTE today gave an undertaking in the Kerala High Court stating its new norms for professional self-financing colleges in the country will not be made applicable during the 2010-11 academic year.

The new norms were not intended to be made applicable for existing colleges for their renewal of approval and would be applicable to only new colleges intended to be established this year, AICTE counsel told the court.

An undertaking in this regard was recorded by the court.

Ahmedabad, March 12: The graduating batch of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad has received placement offers from 110 firms, including international offers from firms like Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.
The placement process for the graduating batch of the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP)at the IIM-Ahmedabad, closed Thursday. All PGP students sitting for placements at IIM Ahmedabad have been placed in the firms of their choice, official sources said here Thursday.

Hyderabad, March 11: The ongoing semester examination of post graduate and professional courses of Osmania University, which were scheduled to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, have been postponed due to tension following the death of an engineering student M Sai Kumar, who allegedly committed suicide for the cause of Telangana.

According to OU authorities, the exams of MA, MSc, MCom, MBA, MCA, LLB, MEd, MPEd, BE scheduled for yesterday and today were postponed in view of the tense situation that prevailed following the death of M Sai Kumar.

Haryana, March 10: Class 12 state board English examination was cancelled in Haryana on Wednesday after reports of question paper leak, officials said.

The exam was being conducted by Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH), Bhiwani.

“We got reports that English question paper code number 302 was leaked in Sonipat district and in some other parts of the state. Therefore we decided to cancel the paper and the next date will be announced soon,” a senior BSEH official told.

Bhopal, March 10: Minorities in Madhya Pradesh have criticised plans to introduce the Bhagvad Gita in state-run schools, saying the scriptures of other religions should also be part of the syllabus, even as a section of Muslim leaders sees nothing wrong with it.

The Catholic Church in Madhya Pradesh has said the government should, if it has to, teach the scriptures of all religions and not just the Hindu scriptures.

New Delhi, March 10: Encyclopaedia Britannica textbooks and an online study module will hit Indian schools from April 2010 in four subjects – computer science, mathematics, environmental studies and general knowledge, says its president Jorge Cauz.

This comes six months after the knowledge giant made inroads into the school textbook business in India with a cache of 30 books, 10 knowledge CDs and nine teachers’ manuals.

“The fact that the Indian government is stressing knowledge beyond the classroom and is devising a new school education system will help us grow,” Cauz told IANS.

Chennai, March 09:Delivering the convocation address at Kundavai Nachiyar Government Arts College for Women, Mr. Pannerselvam said that law enforced by government can help to some extent to keep people away from drinking. But besides law and government women can put an end to drinking liquor and ensure total prohibition in the State.

Moreover, he said that degrees gained by the students are not easily earned. Parents and teachers played a major role in making them graduates. The students should not forget this.

New Delhi, March 09: Prometric, the agency that conducted the computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009, confirmed on Monday that it was a virus attack that crippled 13 per cent of the 637 centres over the first three days of the exam.

“Few sites in some locations were affected by a virus attack from November 28-30, 2009. CAT could be held smoothly over the next eight days,” said Managing Director of Prometric India, Soumitra Roy.

Patna, March 08: About 550 students were caught cheating during Class 10 exams in Bihar and over 100 parents were arrested for helping them to cheat, an official said Monday.

‘In the past three days, 550 students were caught cheating during exams and 110 parents were arrested for helping them cheat,’ an official of the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) said.

Nearly one million students across Bihar took Class 10 exams Friday.

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Mumbai, March 08: Though the University Grants Commission (UGC) had issued new and tougher guidelines for MPhil/PhD degree in July 2009, Mumbai University is yet to implement them.

Now, when a new academic calendar is set to begin in a few months, the university has decided to issue a formal circular to all departments and colleges on the new guidelines. “We will implement the UGC guidelines in toto,” said university registrar K Venkatramani.

Bhopal. March 07: Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya Bhopal (RGPV) or Rajiv Gandhi Technical University (RGTU) has published the time table for academic session 2010-11.

RGTU or RGPV Bhopal time table has been available on its official website i.e (http://210.212.146.100/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=21&Itemid=142).

However, the website of RGTU/RGPV was unresponsive at this moment due to heavy traffic or some technical reasons.

Students will have to wait till the problem is sorted out.

New Delhi, March 06: Over 200 government schools in the capital will finally get principals, thanks to the Supreme Court’s intervention.

After three years of procedural wrangling between the Delhi government and the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), decks have been cleared for their appointment.

The UPSC, which conducts the selection, told the court that it would complete the process for filling the 58 posts of principals under the Direct Recruitment Quota and 145 posts under the Recruitment by Promotion Quota by the year-end.

Srinagar, March 06: More than 7,000 Kashmiri youth across the Valley Saturday took examinations to join the police force.

‘More than 7,000 candidates who had passed the physical tests for selection to the posts of sub-inspector of police sat for the written exams in the Valley,’ Owais Ahmad, inspector general of police, told.

‘Similarly, 6,000 candidates sat for the same exam in the Jammu region,’ he added.

Thronging the various examination centres in the state’s summer capital Srinagar, the candidates were very enthusiastic to join the local police department.