http://www.indiaedunews.net/today/ India's FIRST and ONLY dedicated educational news site en-us 2007 National Network of Education Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:58:51 GMT Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:58:51 GMT 20 http://www.indiaedunews.net/Delhi/Dyslexic_student's_plea_to_use_calculator_in_exam_rejected_11007/ New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a dyslexic student's plea for using a calculator during his class 12 examination."Since the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has considered and decided against the use of calculator, it is not possible for us to allow your prayer," a bench ... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:58:47 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Delhi/DU_soon_to_add_a_new_college_to_its_wing_11006/ New Delhi: With Delhi University's (DU) Deshbandhu College (Evening) getting transformed into Ramanujan College, which would be primarily focusing on mathematics, information technology and business studies, the university is all prepared to get a brand new college under its umbrella."The proposed c... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:54:40 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Delhi/Architecture_school_awaits_Council_meeting_since_six_years_11005/ New Delhi: It has been six years and the wait is still not over for the highest monitoring body of the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), which ideally should meet twice a year.This anomaly got highlighted due to the repetitive mention by a recent review report of the University Grants Commi... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:50:44 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Universities/Cabinet_disposes_establishing_a_separate_Police_University_11004/ New Delhi: The Union Cabinet today approved the dropping of the proposal for establishment of National Police University in view of the inherent merits in opening study centers and chairs in the existing universities.The need for a 'National Police University' dedicated to research and dissemination... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:47:43 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Cabinet_revises_cost_estimates_for_medical_infrastructure_11003/ New Delhi: The Union Cabinet today approved the Revised Cost Estimates (RCE) for setting up of six new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) like institutions and upgradation of 13 existing government medical college institutions under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) (Phase... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:44:18 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Delhi/Sibal_stands_for_rebooting_education_system_11002/ New Delhi: The Human Resource Development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal was invited in a seminar organized by HP and CNBC-TV18 titled 'Education 2.0: Rebooting the Indian Education System' as its chief guest and key note speaker here recently, which focused on sustaining and maintaining the Indian educ... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:42:19 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Today/Catholic_Church_protests_suggestion_for_minority_institutions_11001/ New Delhi: A powerful Catholic body has approached Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to voice its protest against the country's apex minority education watchdog's observation that institutions with less than 30 percent students from the community cannot claim minority status. Catholic Bishops Confer... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:15:08 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Delhi/IGNOU_to_ensure_quality_in_distance_education_11000/ New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on Friday said it will set up a Centre for Internal Quality Assurance (CIQA) to ensure quality in open and distance learning education system in the country. "(The move) has been initiated in order to augment quality-related activities an... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:29:49 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Today/Congress_consensus_not_sought_over_foreign_varsity_bill_10999/ New Delhi: Where on one hand the Left and the BJP are vehemently determined to oppose the Foreign Universities Bill, there is a rumbling heard even in Congress.There are serious misgivings in the Human Resource Development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal's party over the Bill, even though he is being cel... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:21:53 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/International/India_gets_1_billion_dollar_World_Bank_loan_to_improve_education_10998/ Washington: The World Bank has approved two education projects worth $1.05 billion for India, designed to boost the number of children enrolling in and completing elementary school, and to improve the quality of engineering education across the country.India has made significant progress in meeting ... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:14:39 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Today/Sibal_to_release_teacher_training_curriculum_today_10997/ New Delhi: Five years after the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for schools stressed on bringing the teacher education programme at par with that of the change in pedagogy, Human Resource Development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal will finally release a new curriculum for teachers today.Prepared by ... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:00:54 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Azad_overrules_IMA's_objections_to_rural_MBBS_course_10996/ New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has three problems with the government's plan to create a special cadre of rural doctors through a truncated MBBS course, but the health ministry has refused to yield to its pressure and will push ahead on the subject as planned.According to a top heal... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:57:38 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Today/All_schools_in_India_to_have_an_IT_teacher,_says_Sibal_10995/ New Delhi: All secondary schools in India will have a computer teacher each and the central government will bear the related expenses, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said on Thursday."We have now a policy. All schools will have an Information and Communications Technology (ICT... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:55:07 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Karnataka/Karnataka_legislature_passes_Premji_University_Bill_10994/ Bangalore: Amid dissent and a walkout by opposition members, the Karnataka legislative council on Thursday passed the Azim Premji University Bill, 2010, paving the way for the first private varsity to come up in the state.The state assembly had passed the amended bill by voice vote on March 12. Oppo... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:50:04 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Delhi/DTU_management_to_meet_over_prolonged_agitation_10993/ New Delhi: In order to give a patience hearing to the agitating students and also to hear the voice of those who are not participating in agitation, and to resolve the ongoing agitation on the issue of upgradation of DCE to DTU, a meeting of Board of Management (BOM) has been convened today, March... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:04:51 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Delhi/Chidambaram_gives_peace_message_to_Jammu,_Kashmir_students_10992/ New Delhi: A group of 44 students from Jammu & Kashmir on a tour sponsored by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) called on the Union Home Minister, P.Chidambaram here today.Their itinerary had already covered Mathura, Agra, Jaipur and Ajmer and are now here to meet the minister.Interacting ... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:37:25 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Bihar/Bihar_might_allow_other_state_doctors_a_PG_seat_10991/ Patna: The State Health Minister Nand Kishore Yadav announced on Wednesday that soon doctors having an MBBS degree from institutions outside Bihar would be eligible to appear in competitive exams for admission in post graduate course at government run medical colleges in the state.He informed that, ... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:29:29 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Delhi/Jamia_flags_off_sale_of_admission_forms_from_today_10990/ New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University has started its admission process for the academic year 2010-11 from today.The sale of application forms and prospectus will be available from the campus on all working days including Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.The last date for submissi... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:23:09 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/International/CBSE_affiliated_international_schools_all_set_for_new_syllabus_from_2011_10989/ New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) from the next academic session will adopt an international character to its feather that will lead Indian education to reach a global platform.All the CBSE affiliated schools in abroad will soon have an international syllabus, which the Indi... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:20:10 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Uttar_Pradesh/AMU's_coaching_academy_conducts_mock_CS_exam_10988/ Aligarh: The Residential Coaching Academy of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) conducted a General Entrance Test for the aspirants of Civil/ PCS (J) Services 2011 (Prelims). The test was notified on March 4, 2010 in every department and halls of the residence University, especially for the student... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:52:49 GMT