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New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The Right to Education (RTE) Act cannot be a panacea to the poor education system in the country, experts said Wednesday. ‘The historic Right to Education (RTE) Act can not be the comprehensive solution to the country’s education-related issues,’ said researcher Geeta Gandhi Kingdon at a School Choice National Conference in the capital. According to [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused to suspend the admission process for pre-school class in city schools scheduled to start Jan 2 next year. Hearing a plea challenging the Delhi government’s guidelines on admissions by schools, the court said it would decide the issue Jan 6. NGO Social Jurist had moved court against the order [...]
Agartala, Dec 21 (IANS) Tripura University will confer an honorary doctorate on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during her maiden visit to this northeastern Indian state Jan 12, a top official said here Wednesday. ‘Sheikh Hasina and Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari have already given their consent to attend the Tripura Central University’s ninth convocation Jan 12,’ university vice chancellor [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) A Delhi High Court bench Wednesday recused itself from hearing a petition of a former Jamia Millia Islamia student for quashing a 2006 decision of the university to ban elections to the student union. The petition, filed by Ikrar Khan, says the decision to ban the students’ union elections of the university from March 2006 [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) A former student of Jamia Millia Islamia Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of a 2006 decision of the central university to ban students’ union election.
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Indian students desiring foreign education can fulfil their dreams right from the comfort of their homes, courtesy online courses launched here Tuesday by Laureate International Universities — a network of higher education institutes. Master and professional level courses in management, health and human services, public policy and other streams are available from Laureate’s three flagship [...]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 20 (IANS) With a cold wave sweeping most parts of the region, schools in Odisha’s forested Kandhamal district have been asked to hold day-classes, an official said Tuesday. The district headquarter town of Phulbani, about 200 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, has been experiencing less than six degrees Celsius temperature since the past few days. The minimum temperature [...]
Muslimpatti (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 20 (IANS) It is a milestone in education for this remote village in Azamgarh district — 90 percent of its girls are educated and the number of girl students is over double that of boy students in nearby schools and colleges. Surrounded on three sides by the Tamsa river, the villagers of Muslimpatti, 20 km from [...]
Srinagar, Dec 19 (IANS) Police have registered a case against the chairman and some other officials of the Jammu and Kashmir school education board for depicting the local policemen as ‘cruel’ in one of the vernacular school text books. ‘We have registered a case of sedition, defamation and criminal conspiracy against those officials of the board of school education J [...]
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) The Delhi government order allowing unaided private schools to go ahead with the admission of toddlers aged three years and above in pre-school (nursery) class was Monday challenged in court by an NGO, which said it was against an earlier court judgment. Approaching the Delhi Court, NGO, Social Jurist said that the order of Delhi’s [...]
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Braving the morning chill, around 1,200 students of Father Agnel School formed a human chain here Monday to send out a message against consumption of junk food. The human chain spelt out the words ‘Junk The Junk Food’. ‘This is not a fight against a type of food, it’s our children’s fight against the processed [...]
Beijing, Dec 19 (IANS) China, which has the world’s largest population of over 1.3 billion, would soon come up with a museum-cum-theme park that tells the story of contraception in the country through the ages. The National Museum of Contraceptives would probably be built in Rudong county in Jiangsu province, the Shanghai Daily reported. According to the Modern Express newspaper, [...]
Sharjah, Dec 17 (IANS/WAM) The University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Saturday held a graduation ceremony where 460 students were awarded degrees. The students were from the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, crown prince and deputy ruler of Sharjah, government officials and families of the graduates attended [...]
Patna, Dec 17 (IANS) With an intense cold wave sweeping Bihar, all public and private schools in the state capital have been ordered closed till Dec 25, officials said. ‘The Patna district administration has ordered all schools to close from Dec 19 to 25 to provide relief to children from the intense cold,’ officials said here. Patna District Magistrate Sanjay [...]
London, Dec 17 (IANS) Hundreds of new schoolteachers in Britain are going to teach pupils in their classrooms despite having struggled themselves up to 39 attempts to clear even basic literacy and numeracy tests. Trainee teachers are required to pass the online tests to qualify for their chosen profession. But many of them are joining schools despite having repeatedly failed [...]
Patna, Dec 17 (IANS) Maoists blasted a state-run school in Bihar’s Jamui district early Saturday, police said. Armed guerrillas surrounded and blew up the school in Sarkanta village in Jamui, about 200 km from here, officials said. According to police officials, Maoists used a JCB machine also to raze the building to the ground. According to police, the rebels demolished [...]
CWE Probationary Officers / Management Trainees Result From here http://ibpsreg.sifyitest.com/ibpsporesdec11/login.php The magnificence of IBPS has stood over 40 years. Working on international testing models like the ETS model, the Institute conducts a wide spectrum of activities in personnel selection both for promotion within and recruitment and selection from outside the organization. Today, IBPS has become a body providing integrated end [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IAJNS) The Supreme Court Friday declined to pass an order on the central government’s plea seeking amendment of the Medical Council of India’s December 2010 notification to hold a National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for undergraduate medical courses from academic year 2013-14 instead of 2012-13. Apparently not pleased with the latest position of the central government, a [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) Friday conferred the degree of ‘Doctor of Letters’ (D.Lit) on renowned economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in a special convocation ceremony held here. ‘In awarding this degree the university not only records its deep appreciation for his contribution to the field of economics but it honours itself,’ said Jamia [...]
Agra, Dec 16 (IANS) Agra’s Karan Narain, pursuing M. Tech (final year) in computer science from IIT Kanpur, has set a new record in campus placement. He has been picked up by US company Pocket Gems for an annual package of $137,000 (over Rs.73 lakh). This is the highest package offered to a Kanpur IITian and one of the highest [...]
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