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Pulapre Balakrishnan to be new CDS director

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:01:14 GMT

Thiruvananthapuram: Professor Pulapre Balakrishnan was on Tuesday selected as the next director of the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) here.A CDS spokesperson said the decision to appoint Balakrishnan as the director was taken at a meeting of the governing body of the social science research an...

Kerala nursing students in Melbourne to protest new rules

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:32:55 GMT

Thiruvananthapuram: Hundreds of nursing students from Kerala in Melbourne will march in protest to the Victorian parliament on Wednesday against the new rules for nurses. Vinaya Augustine, 25, who is doing a basic course in nursing at the Deakin University in Melbourne, is a worried student. "Till J...

Foundation stone for veterinary university laid in Tamil Nadu

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:46:35 GMT

Pookode, Tamil Nadu: Chief Minister of Kerala, V.S. Achuthanandan recently laid down the foundation stone of the proposed Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University at Pookode (Wayanad) on Monday.The CM addressed the gathering at the Veterinary College Auditorium after laying down the foundati...

Kerala plans 140 specialized computer schools

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:02:37 GMT

Thiruvananthapuram: Under its IT@School project for computer literacy among schoolchildren, Kerala will develop one model school -- with five classrooms equipped with modern tools -- in all its 140 assembly constituencies, an official said on Sunday."As part of the model information and communicatio...

University of California, Kerala B-school join hands

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:08:44 GMT

Thiruvananthapuram: University of California Santa Cruz and the Asian School of Business (ASB) in Kerala's capital on Wednesday launched a strategic tie-up that would include a series of exchange programmes.Announcing this here, G. Vijaya Raghavan, member-secretary of ASB, said, "As the first in the...

Walkout in Kerala assembly over pact with colleges

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:42:35 GMT

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala's Congress-led opposition on Thursday walked out of the state assembly over what it termed a serious flaw in the pact between the state government and self-financing medical colleges in the state.Seeking leave for an adjournment motion, Congress legislator V.D. Satheesan s...

IT-at-School to give 60,000 DVDs to school teachers in Kerala

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:12:20 GMT

Thiruvananthapuram: IT@School, the Kerala government's initiative to implement IT-enabled education, has developed a Resource DVD, which will be freely distributed to 60,000 High School teachers in the state.The teachers would have complete freedom to copy, edit and re-distribute the contents in the...

IIITM-K opens admissions for M.Sc. Information Technology

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:40:19 GMT

Trivandrum: The Indian Institute of Information Technology AND Management in Kerala has begun the procedure for admission into its M.Sc. in Information Technology (M.Sc. IT) course.The eligibility criteria for admission is a Bachelor's degree in any branch of Engineering/ Technology/ Associate Membe...

DOEACC Centre Calicut invites applications for PG courses

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:23:14 GMT

Calicut, Kerala: DOEACC Centre Calicut is inviting applications for admission into its post graduate Diploma in VLSI and Embedded Hardware Design.The courses are set to begin from August 30.The eligibility criteria for applying to the courses is a B.E. or B.Tech in Electronics/ Electronics and Commu...

Delay in delivery of books at schools rocks Kerala house

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:49:17 GMT

Thiruvananthapuram: The Congress-led opposition on Thursday lashed out at Kerala Education Minister M.A. Baby for his failure to ensure timely delivery of textbooks at government schools. Seeking to move an adjournment motion in the assembly, Congress legislator P.C. Vishnunath said that close to 40...

Kerala mulling education aid for kids of jail inmates

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:28:59 GMT

Kannur (Kerala): Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Monday said the government is considering a scheme to provide financial assistance to children of jail inmates for their education.He said this while inaugurating a new surveillance system at the high security Kannur Jail. Later speaking...

Kerala to act against schools that don't offer Malayalam

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:34:02 GMT

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government on Tuesday said it would act against schools that do not offer Malayalam as a subject even as the state takes pride in a high literacy of 90.92 percent and a low school dropout rate of 0.83 percent."The government is considering taking action against all sch...

Kerala to formulate separate policy on ICT in education

Sat, 29 May 2010 08:33:09 GMT

Kochi: Kerala Education Minister M.A. Baby on Friday said the state government would come out with a separate policy on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in education that would be relevant at the national and international levels.He said this while inaugurating a two-day internation...

Kerala's state education channel to telecast BBC videos

Sat, 08 May 2010 15:06:19 GMT

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government-run educational TV channel will telecast documentaries produced by the BBC Motion Gallery for the benefit of the state's students, an official said on Saturday.The 450 episodes of educational videos on history and culture, science and technology, and wildlif...

Headscarf row - School management suspends principal

Sat, 08 May 2010 08:20:29 GMT

Alappuzha: The principal of a Christian-run school in the Alappuzha district of Kerala was suspended by the school management after controversy when a Muslim girl student was issued a transfer certificate because she insisted on wearing a headscarf to school, an official said on Friday. Alappuzha Di...

Foreign Institutions Bill 'anti-people' - SFI

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:26:42 GMT

Kochi: The Foreign Educational Institutions Bill has been called 'anti-people' by the Students' Federation of India (SFI) as they feel that it would only lead to foreign universities coming to India to just make money.Ritabrata Banerjee, General Secretary of the SFI said during a news conference to ...

NCHER Bill criticized by CPI-M leader

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:24:40 GMT

Kochi: Nilotpal Basu, Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M) leader has criticized the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) Bill that was initiated by the Union government, calling it an "Obnoxious Bill that takes away all the powers of the state governments."Basu gave t...

Kerala to come up with Ambalapuzha College in 2011

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:17:35 GMT

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