Gandhinagar, March 10 – The directors of all the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) in the country are slated to meet next month to review the first online Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted for entry into the IIMs and other business schools, an official said Wednesday.
Satish Deodhar, the convenor of the CAT-2009 examinations told mediapersons [...]
New Delhi, March 10 – The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the government to make its stand clear on a plea that a short-term course on primary health was required to allow non-MBBS persons to practise medicine in rural areas.
A division bench of acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta directed the [...]
New Delhi, March 10 – The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore and its counterpart in Lucknow have reduced their placement service charges substantially to attract more companies for on campus recruitment.
Majority of the IIMs charge certain fees from both domestic and overseas companies for participating in their placement drives.
‘IIM-Bangalore and IIM-Lucknow have reported [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New Delhi, March 9 – The Delhi Government had to contend with the Supreme Court’s rap Tuesday for its failure to fill up over 200 vacant posts of government school teachers and principals for the last two years when free education for students up to 14 years has been made a fundamental right.
A bench of [...]
Raipur, March 9 – As many as 20 girl students suffered a sun stroke and fell unconscious Tuesday at a government school near Chhattisgarh’s capital city, officials said. They have been hospitalised.
The incident took place at a school in Urkura village on the outskirts of state capital Raipur.
‘Surprisingly the girls, aged between 10-12 years, [...]
New Delhi, March 9 – The government will propose several legislations to encourage private participation in education as the states alone cannot provide resources, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Tuesday.
‘There are three legislations we are planning to propose for improving higher education in the country, including one allowing domestic and foreign players to [...]
Perinthalmanna (Kerala), March 6 – The Kerala government Saturday transferred a portion of the land allotted for the Aligarh Muslim University’s special centre at Malappuram and promised the rest in the next two months.
Education and Cultural Affairs Minister M. A. Baby handed over the papers and a map of the 122 acres of land [...]
New Delhi, March 5 – Class 10 students of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) made their way anxiously to exam centres around the country Friday to answer their first major and compulsory paper Social Science, though some had taken their first exam March 3 in Music, an optional subject.
Doing their last minute studies [...]
