New Delhi, August 11: Several racial attacks on Indians in Australia notwithstanding, at least a dozen universities from that country are sending their representatives to India later this week to woo students.
They will hold exhibition and interact with potential students in New Delhi Aug 16, according to Australian Trade Commission which has launched the initiative.
Bhopal, August 11: A group of Madhya Pradesh schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have decided to step up awareness about swine flu among students although the state government is yet to issue any specific guideline to educational institutions.
The Sahodaya Group, comprising 53 schools of Bhopal and Vidisha district, has started distributing handouts to students to inform them and their parents of swine flu symptoms and precautionary measures to be taken to prevent or tackle the viral infection.
Agartala, August 11: Tripura will be declared fully literate in September next year, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said Tuesday.
‘On the occasion of World Literacy Day (Sep 8) next year, Tripura will be declared an entirely literate state. The final phase of all out efforts to achieve this goal has begun,’ Sarkar told a meeting of the state literacy mission authority.
According to the 2001 census, Tripura was the 12th most literate state in India with 73.66 percent literacy and the second most literate state in northeast region after Mizoram, where the literacy rate was 88.49 percent.
New Delhi, August 11: Getting a Ph.D degree will soon get tougher with University Grants Commission bringing in stiff regulation which bans offer of such degrees in distant mode and stipulates that the thesis paper be evaluated by two experts, including one from outside the state.
According to the UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Awards of M.Phil/Ph.D Degree) Regulation 2009, no university, institution or deemed university shall conduct M.Phil or Ph.D programme through distant education mode.
New Delhi, August 11: Junior Modern School decided to close down for a week after two students from the school tested positive for H1N1 influenza on Monday.
Many others meanwhile decided against shutting down to prevent panic among students and their parents.
The school on Humayun Road becomes the third in the city — after Sanskriti School, Chanakyapuri, and DPS, East of Kailash — to close down after students were confirmed with swine flu.
Two Class III students of Junior Modern School tested positive for the influenza, officials said.
Hyderabad, August 10: Two professors of Osmania University resigned today allegedly due to pressure from a student organisation which claimed they found ganja from the professors at the University College of Science here.
Profs A P Shiv Kumar and T Shirish Chandra of Geology Department submitted their resignations and the matter has been brought to the notice of Vice-Chancellor T Tirupati Rao, University College of Science Principal Janardhan Reddy told PTI.
Amravati, August 10: All educational institutions in the city today remained close in response to the call given by Maharashtra Rajya Shikshan Sanstha Mahamandal.
The band received total response as educational institutions did not run classes today.
The agitation has been called to protest the State Government’s format for non-salary grants and salary grants of non-teaching employees.
—Agencies
Mumbai, August 10: Fifty children from Parivartan Shikshan Sanstha, a NGO in Shantinagar, were special guests at an interactive session with former President APJ Abdul Kalam at the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) on Saturday.
The event was organised as part of the institute’s social responsibility subject. Kalam encouraged students to ask him questions when he said, “Its only questioning that leads to science and innovation.”
The students did not disappoint the former President as they asked him several questions.
Mumbai, August 10: Schools have started to shut and prepare for swine flu tests, with nine students having tested positive for swine flu in Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai.
Most of the students are in Kasturba Hospital. They include seven girls, three of them sisters who go to RIMS International School, Juhu. The others comprise one each from J.B Vaccha School in Dadar, Dhirubhai Ambani School in Bandra Kurla Complex, Sinhaghad Insitutue in Lonavla (the student is in Mumbai on vacation), A.K Joshi School in Thane, Navi Mumbai Municipal School in Nerul and Apeejay School in Nerul.
Mumbai, August 10: After months of waiting and confusion, here’s some good news for junior college students. The state school education department has directed colleges across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) to scrap the first unit test usually held in August. The decision comes as a relief for colleges which were contemplating cancelling vacations to conduct these tests. Now, junior colleges will directly conduct the first terminal examinations in October.
Jerusalem, August 10: Hebrew University has received a surprise donation of USD 100,000 from an unexpected benefactor – a Jewish woman who survived the Nazi Holocaust and lived as destitute in Manhattan.
“The woman died two years ago at the age of 92 and the university learnt about her will only about three months ago before receiving the donation last week,” Yefet Ozery, Hebrew University’s director of development and public relations was quoted as saying in the daily ‘Ha’aretz’.
Ahmedabad, August 09:Common Admission Test(CAT) of the Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) will become computer based tests (CBT) from this year onwards and will be held in two sessions, IIM-A officials said.
“CAT of the IIMs is going to be a computer aided test from this year onwards, and shall be conducted in two sessions (morning and afternoon) each day, in a span of about ten days,” IIM-A official said.
New Delhi, August 09: Move over Facebook, Orkut. Here comes Delhi University’s own networking site, Network DU. With over 2,000 registrations in just four weeks, this site is a virtual campus in which you can look for anyone and anything — from old friends to scholarships and even information on paying guest accommodation.
Started by Honey Arora, a technical expert, Network DU (www.networkdu.com) has all the features of other social networking sites and more.
Lucknow, August 09: Jailbirds lodged in prisons across Uttar Pradesh will now get a chance to pursue education right from the primary level to post graduate degrees including MBAs.
In a bid to reform prisoners, the prison department has launched an ambitious project, wherein inmates will be able to attend classes from primary to higher education level besides being allowed to appear in certificate examinations.
Hyderabad, August 09: Engineering colleges which have come up in the last two academic years are now under the scanner. A three-member task force has been constituted by the higher education department to inspect just what their facilities are like.
The inspections have been ordered by chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy following reports of AICTE approval to colleges without basic infrastructure.
The task force will include an official from a university from outside the state, a senior engineering professional and a representative from the higher education department.
New Delhi, August 08: Criticised for using force and unfair means to recover loans, personnel from several cooperative banks will get training on how to recover loans legally at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) here.
Around 20 senior administrators of urban cooperative banks from various parts of the country will start their education on legal aspects of recovery management beginning Monday, varsity officials said Saturday.
The training programme is organised in collaboration with National Federation of Cooperative Urban Banks and Credit Societies Ltd (NAFCUB).
Kharagpur, August 08: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur plans to increase its student intake from 8,000 to 20,000 by 2020 with an investment of about Rs.1,800 crore, B. Muthuraman, the chairman of its board of governors, said here Saturday.
New Delhi, August 08: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Saturday said the country’s premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) must focus on quality research and act as a catalyst to boost technical education in India.
At IIT-Delhi’s convocation ceremony, the minister said: ‘The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.
Jammu, August 08: A students’ organisation Saturday called a complete shutdown here Monday over ‘vague’ statements by the Jammu and Kashmir government on setting up a central university near the state’s winter capital.
The shutdown call comes even as the Omar Abdullah government Wednesday said the first central university in Jammu and Kashmir will come up near here. There was simmering discontent among student organisations here who were protesting the government’s reported move to shift the varsity site to the Kashmir Valley.
Melbourne, August 08: Amid reports that scores of Indian students were among those duped in a massive education scam in Australia, India today said it will be “ruthless” with the rogue education agents who take gullible youths for a ride.
The Indian government will go after unscrupulous education agents in the country as part of its effort to control the student crisis, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna told a press conference here.
New Delhi, August 08: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Punjab will start functioning from its new campus on August 20, after an year of parenting at the IIT Delhi.
The institute will function with last year’s batch and the new batch of around 240 students in three disciplines from Rupnagar (formerly Ropar), around 60 km from Chandigarh.
“The institute will start operation with 11 teachers and around 15 professors of IIT Delhi will continue to help them in taking classes,” IIT Delhi Director Surendra Prasad said on Friday.
Ahmedabad, August 08: More than 50,000 poor minority students in Gujarat have been reportedly denied central scholarship.
This report has once again put Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in a spot.
His is the only state government in the country which is not willing to bear 25 per cent share of the central-sponsored pre matric scholarship scheme for the minorities.
The Centre gives around Rs 22 lakh scholarships for poor Muslims students, of which more than Rs 57,000 is earmarked for Gujarat alone.
New Delhi, August 08: In a decision that brought relief to thousands of parents, the Supreme Court on Friday held that private unaided schools do not have the right to hike fees.
Deciding on the review petitions filed by the Action Committee for Unaided Private Schools in the Capital, which sought a re-examination of its earlier 2004 verdict, the three-member bench led by Justice S B Sinha said only the government can regulate the fees of private schools.
Unaided private schools need to take permission of the Director Education before hiking fees, the apex court maintained.
Chandigarh, August 07: M S University (MSU) has decided to introduce a post-graduate degree course in Pharmacogenomics from the next academic year. Pharmacogenomics is a new branch of pharmacology that studies the influence of genetic variation on drug response on patients.
MSU has received the seed money from the Centre under the 11th Five-Year Plan to start the course in Pharmacogenomics and Clinical Research.
Ludhiana, August 07: The students of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU) who were suspended for indulging in a brawl on July 29 found a voice of support on Thursday. Several students of the university protested in front of Vice-Chancellor Dr V K Taneja’s office urging him to reconsider the decision.