Starting 2013, a joint entrance examination will be held for admission into the central funded engineering institutions such as IITs, NITs and IIITs. ...
11:36 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Starting 2013, a joint entrance examination will be held for admission into the central funded engineering institutions such as IITs, NITs and IIITs. The councils of the IITs, NITs and IIITs on Monday decided to have joint entrance test for engineering colleges that come under these three councils. According to the decision taken, for the first time, the class XII examinations will count towards entrance. There will be...
04:56 PM, May 28, 2012
London: Children who suffer from bullying in their early years are more likely than their peers to engage in self harm as adolescents, a new study has suggested. Researchers at the King's College London found that half of the self-harming 12-year-olds they looked at in the study were frequently bullied. The research, published in the British Medical Journal, also showed that victimised children with mental health problems were at greater...
05:13 AM, Apr 30, 2012
CHENNAI: Aiming to fulfil the higher education dreams of youngsters hailing from rural areas of Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday announced that 20 new government colleges " two engineering, 11 arts and science and seven polytechnic colleges " will be started in small towns this academic year.Leaders from several parties " Congress, PMK, CPI, CPM, RPI, MMK, AISMK Kongu Ilaignar Peravai and AIFB " hailed the Chief...
07:08 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Lucknow: Free engineering and medical education would be given to girls in government colleges in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav announced on Thursday. He made the announcement while addressing an event on the 125th annual function of Isabella Thoburn College (IT) in Lucknow. Akhilesh also announced an assistance of Rs 1 crore for the new hostel building of the college and said the government will extend all possible help...
12:51 AM, Apr 13, 2012
HYDERABAD: The Consortium of Professional Colleges Managements Association on Tuesday served an ultimatum to the state government demanding release of funds under the fee reimbursement scheme.Consortium president N Ramesh said they would not allow students to sit for semester examinations scheduled to held from April 28 if the government did not release the money as per its earlier promise.Till the first week of February the government had not paid a...
08:26 AM, Apr 11, 2012
BANGALORE: As per a recommendation, at least 40 per cent of BEd colleges under Bangalore University (BU) have to be closed due to inadequate independent buildings, classrooms, libraries and computer centres. The recommendation is based on a survey conducted between December 2011 and February 2012 by Karan Kumar H, a member of the varsitys Academic Council.Apart from infrastructure flaws, the survey recorded gross non-adherence to rules concerning the way academic...
09:25 AM, Apr 10, 2012
The debate on higher education has always existed in this country. In most cases, it has been on the peripherals with the academics venting their ...
03:49 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Minnesota: The University of Kansas is buying up website names such as http://www.KUgirls.xxx and http://www.KUnurses.xxx . But not because it's planning a Hot Babes of Kansas site or an X-rated gallery of the Nude Girls of the Land of Aaahs. Instead, the university and countless other schools and businesses are rushing to prevent their good names from falling into the hands of the pornography industry. Over the past two months,...
11:06 AM, Dec 10, 2011
HYDERABAD: As many as 439 MCA and MBA colleges in the state are on the verge of closure. They have sought permission from the government to transfer the few students who took admission to nearby colleges as most of their seats remained unfilled, after the second phase of counselling which ended on October 27. At the end of the second phase, 439 colleges (362 MCA and 77 MBA) got below...
08:54 AM, Nov 03, 2011
Jagjit Walia turned Citizen Journalist to expose how seats in medical colleges are being sold openly in the capital. ...
08:55 PM, Sep 17, 2011
New Delhi: One and a half years after the don of the Medical Council of India, Ketan Desai was arrested for taking a bribe of Rs 2 crore, the Central Bureau of Investigation is finally ready with a chargesheet. CNN-IBN has accessed the confidential papers that document how the deal was struck, rules bent, quality of medical education compromised and how money changed hands. The CBI decoded the modus operandi...
08:25 PM, Sep 14, 2011
Bangalore: One lakh rupees for every mark added - that's the going rate in the fake marks scam in Karnataka. If you are an MBBS student, you could pass the university exam by just shelling out money. Evaluating officers will change the marks when they get the copies for retotalling. Students have paid a lakh for every percentage that is needed for them to clear the exam. MBBS students from...
08:02 PM, Jun 14, 2011
Srinagar: Schools are open for the second day on Tuesday despite a call to students from the separatist Hurriyat leadership to boycott classes in Kashmir. Attendance in Srinagar schools is thin while moderate attendance is reported from other parts of the valley because of security restrictions. Students attended classes for the first time in three months on Monday. In a few places, students were sent home in a few hours...
11:04 AM, Sep 28, 2010
New Delhi: The Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said here on Monday that the government is happy to learn that most schools and colleges have reopened in Jammu and Kashmir. He appealed to parents to cooperate with the state administration in restoring normalcy and smooth functioning of the educational institutions. "I appeal to all sections of the people of J&K, especially parents, to cooperate with the State Government and ensure...
12:31 PM, Sep 27, 2010
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