The Supreme Court has ruled that there will be no single entrance exam for PG medical and dental colleges this year. States which didn't conduct their own exams will follow the NEET results, but they are not binding on all states. ...
07:33 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed medical colleges to declare all pending Post Graduate results, which were stayed by the December 13, 2012, order. However, this is only an interim arrangement for this year and a final judgement will be delivered by the Supreme Court in the first week of July. The Supreme Court has also left the option of following the NEET result on the colleges. This means...
02:45 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday decide the fate of 90,000 medical aspirants after it takes a decision on National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) or the common entrance test for MBBS, Dental and PG medical courses. This comes more than a month after a CNN-IBN sting operation exposed how PG medical seats were being sold in black in clear violation of a Supreme Court order. Meanwhile, it...
08:53 AM, May 13, 2013
The Supreme Court is likely to decide on Tuesday whether state governments and private universities can conduct separate entrance exams for admissions in medical courses. State governments and private universities had objected to a Medical Council of India (MCI) decision for a common entrance test. ...
08:45 AM, Feb 12, 2013
The much awaited results of the Common Admission Test (CAT) for management courses were declared on Wednesday. Candidates can log in to the CAT website www.catiim.in and retrieve their results. ...
09:26 AM, Jan 09, 2013
With the 2013 admissions just months away, Delhi University has upgraded their three year undergraduate courses. Delhi University has passed a resolution to upgrade the three year undergrad course to four year courses. ...
06:40 AM, Dec 25, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday strongly opposed an All India Common Entrance Test for admission to Under Graduates and Post Graduates courses in medical colleges, saying such a move would interfere with the State's rights and create problems in implementing the reservation policy. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she said that despite the State's protest, the Centre has notified the National Board of...
02:36 PM, Oct 01, 2012
London: The reduced number of Indian students this year has led to concerns in some British universities over the financial viability of courses and departments particularly in the subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). As universities report a drop of between 20 and 30 per cent of Indian students in the forthcoming academic year starting later this month, the drop has caused much concern over the future of...
03:59 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Hyderabad: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans College of Communication and Management (BCCM) is introducing four new Diploma Courses in Radio and Television Journalism, Radio and TV Production, Direction and Script Writing for Radio and TV and Media Management during the current academic session of 2012-13. The classes for the current academic year are scheduled to begin from the first week of August. As part of its current motto toInnovate, Initiate and Implement...
12:41 PM, Jul 19, 2012
As the admission season begins across the country, CNN-IBN's show Campus Calling 2012 answers your queries related to the what, where, how and when of it. ...
05:51 PM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on June 7 permitted the Union Health Ministry to undertake online counselling for admission of students to undergraduate medical courses for 15 per cent central seats in government colleges across the country. An apex court bench of Justice KS Radhakrishnan and Justice JS Khehar cleared the decks for online counselling for admissions to MBBS and BDS after it gave the go-ahead to the scheme submitted...
02:29 PM, Jun 07, 2012
Kolkata: The admission process for enrolment in B.Sc.(Honours), B.A.(Honours), B.Ed, M.A., M.Phil and Library Science has started at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Candidates aspiring to join this centre of excellence may log on to http://juadmissions.org/ to register and apply. The university, one of the top centres of learning in India, usually asks selected students to sit for a written test. Pupils from all over India come to study at Jadavpur University....
02:50 PM, Jun 06, 2012
New Delhi: The India Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has started the admission process for the July 2012 session for masters, bachelors, diplomas and certificate programmes. The last date for Masters of Computer Application (MCA), Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA), Bachelor Preparatory Programme (BPP) and all certificate programmes is June 15 and for other master degree programmes the last date is July 30, an IGNOU statement said. "The university also...
08:12 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Taking serious note of mushrooming media schools in the country, government is mulling framing guidelines to protect the interest of students who have to eke out exorbitant fees for these unrecognised courses. Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni on Friday said she had written to HRD Minister Kapil Sibal about the need to create a framework for these institutes whose numbers were going up due to media industry...
03:28 AM, Mar 10, 2012
New York: A day after Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy said Harvard University should have approached him first before deciding on removing his courses, the American institution said it was a norm for the faculty to annually "amend" and vote upon the course list for its summer school sessions. Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences had voted earlier this week to remove two economics courses that Swamy taught at the...
12:56 PM, Dec 09, 2011
Pune: As a visually impaired student, sixteen year old Suchita felt there were no vocational institutes where she could realise her dream of becoming a teacher. That's when she heard of Meera Badve's Niwant, a school and vocational institute in Pune. Meera Badve says, "Niwant aims to change how the society thinks that the blind can't go beyond school." A chance visit to a blind school and her teaching experience...
09:04 AM, Oct 05, 2011
Yunnan Province, China: Twenty eight Chinese universities are promoting their MBBS degrees and are top picks for Indians. Dali University - one of the top universities in China is busy promoting their MBBS course - the top pick of several aspiring Indian students. Bimbadhar and Vamshi Krishna from Andhra Pradesh was readily accepted in this university four years back along with 300 others from their state after failing to make...
08:59 AM, Jun 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Central Government to hold a single eligibility-cum-entrance examination for MBBS and post-graduate medical courses in the country from the 2011-12 academic session. A bench of justices RV Raveendran and AK Patnaik passed the order, saying that it will also be applicable for the private medical colleges in the country. The bench asked the government to hold the single common entrance test...
01:26 PM, Mar 07, 2011
New Delhi: Too many students and too little seats - it's the bane of Indian education right from nursery to graduation and beyond. Turn it around could take years, but the baby steps taken by Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal in technical education put out new norms for AICTE accredited institutes - the government-approved non-IIT and non-IIM institutes. These will see an increase in the number of engineering and management...
05:02 PM, Dec 30, 2010
In a bid to give school education a vocational touch, CBSE announced the starting of the new courses for Class 11 and 12 students. ...
08:05 PM, Jul 19, 2010
