http://www.edunews.net/India/ India's FIRST and ONLY dedicated educational news site en-us 2007 National Network of Education Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:39:17 GMT Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:39:17 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Educational_route_to_Australia_2878/ Leading political figures of Australia have been travelling to India to allay fears of 'attacks' on Indians in their country. The Indian media has been describing these attacks on students and workers as 'racist'. What is actually going on? During the past six years, the number of Indian students i... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:39:17 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Pan-African_e-network_for_education_and_health_care_2877/ CHENNAI: Like most ambitious projects, this one too began as an idea, seemingly unachievable. In 2004, when the former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, spoke at the inaugural session of the Pan-African Parliament in Johannesburg, the idea sounded fantastic. He proposed that all 53 nations of the Afric... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:38:08 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Apex_court's_nod_to_students'_admission_in_Tripura_medical_college_2874/ After a three-month impasse, the Supreme Court has okayed admission of students to a 100-seat medical college in Tripura that was opened as the first case of public-private-partnership (PPP) in health care education, an official said Saturday. Tripura Health Minister Tapan Chakraborty said a divisi... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:35:22 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Renowned_scientists_named_for_Sir_Syed_Ahmad_Khan_award_2873/ ALIGARH - Renowned scientists Obaid Siddiqi and Syed Zahoor Qasim will jointly receive the Sir Syed Ahmad Khan International Award, instituted by the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), for 2009 in the field of life sciences, the university said Saturday. A seven-member jury comprising eminent scienti... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:34:30 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/SSA_assessing_its_impact_on_state_education_in_2009-10_2872/ PANAJI: The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is in the process of assessing its impact in the present academic year in Goa. Launched on October 1, the DISE Fortnight-a nation-wide effort to collect data to access the central government's flagship education program for the academic year 2009-10-will conc... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:33:49 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Education_City_project_kicks_off_today_2864/ CHANDIGARH: The much-hyped Education City project of the UT administration would officially get going on Monday with a 'bhoomi pujan' ceremony at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, at its site in Sarangpur, following which construction work would begin. So far, only three of th... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:20:43 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/West_Bengal_university_vice-chancellor_quits_after_'insult'_2862/ KOLKATA - The vice-chancellor of a university in West Bengal has resigned, complaining of "insulting behaviour" of a section of professors. Ranajit Kumar Samanta, vice-chancellor of the Bidhan Chandra Roy Krishi Vishva Vidyalaya in Nadia district quit after a section of its professors under the umb... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:17:46 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/IGNOU_signs_pact_with_Papua_New_Guinea_varsity_2860/ NEW DELHI - The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Friday signed an agreement with the Papua New Guinea University of Technology for a number of educational and training programmes. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) envisages development of cultural, educational and scientific ties ... Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:25:40 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/India,_Australia_to_target_'unscrupluous'_education_agents_2859/ New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) India and Australia, in their first meeting of the joint working group on student mobility, have agreed to tackle unscrupulous education agents and check institutes offering poor quality of education. A press release of the Australian high commission here Friday said that b... Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:24:57 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/JNU_students_protest_proposed_fee_hike,_subsidy_cut_2835/ NEW DELHI - Hundreds of students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Thursday protested the human resource development ministry's proposed fee hike and and withdrawal of hostel subsidies in the university. The students assembled Thursday noon at Jantar Mantar, near the central shopping district of ... Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:16:23 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/15_US_universities_to_woo_students_at_Delhi_fair_2831/ NEW DELHI - If you want to study in the US and want to know how to go about it, visit an education fair in the capital Thursday in which 15 American universities are participating. That would help. Organised by United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), the fair aims at helping students kn... Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:31:54 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Half_of_Indian_students_don't_go_beyond_secondary_level_2825/ New Delhi: At least 48 of every 100 students in India pursuing secondary education never go beyond that level, the World Bank said Tuesday, pointing out that the country was doing worse than Vietnam and Bangladesh in enrolling students in secondary education. 'Thirty seven percent students fail be... Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:25:24 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/US_universities_reach_out_to_Delhi_students_2820/ New Delhi: Representatives of 17 American educational institutions will participate in a U.S. University Fair to be held in New Delhi on October 8, from 1:30 to 5:30 pm, at the Fulbright House, 12 Hailey Road. Organized by the United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), in collaboration wi... Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:29:49 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Half_of_Indian_students_don't_go_beyond_secondary_level_2819/ NEW DELHI - At least 48 of every 100 students in India pursuing secondary education never go beyond that level, the World Bank said Tuesday, pointing out that the country was doing worse than Vietnam and Bangladesh in enrolling students in secondary education. Thirty seven percent students fail bef... Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:28:55 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Central_Madarsa_Board_to_be_set_up_after_consensus_-_Sibal_2802/ New Delhi: Union Human Resource Minister Kapil Sibal has said that setting up of a Central Madarsa Board to oversee Muslim education would be made only after a consensus. After his meeting with Muslim MPs here on Saturday, Sibal said: "There were three kinds of opinions that has emerged during cour... Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:14:54 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Educational_institutions_in_Manipur_shut_for_three_weeks_2788/ Imphal: Students and guardians in India's restive northeastern state of Manipur are at their wits' end with all educational institutions shut down for the past three weeks and the government doing very little about it. The All Manipur Students' Union (AMSU) called for an indefinite closure of all s... Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:20:53 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/IIMs_extend_CAT_registration_date_by_10_days_2782/ New Delhi: This spells relief for tens of thousands of students. The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) Wednesday extended their last date to accept online applications for their Common Admission Test (CAT) by 10 days to Oct 11. The decision was taken in view of several gazetted holidays in Se... Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:14:46 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Bishops'_body_says_it_may_challenge_new_education_law_2775/ NEW DELHI - The Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) Wednesday said it could challenge the new right to education legislation in the court if the government failed to amend it in the next session of parliament. The CBCI says clause 21 of the education law leaves scope for political interfere... Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:06:41 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Over_15,000_children_in_Mizoram_deprived_of_schooling_2755/ Aizawl: About 15,000 children in Mizoram, aged six to fourteen, are deprived of schooling even though the northeastern state is India's second most literate after Kerala, an official report said. "After finding that around 15,000 children, mostly tribals, are deprived of formal education, the state... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:03:04 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Eleven_scientist_selected_for_2009_Shanti_Swarup_Bhatnagar_Award_2752/ New Delhi: Eleven scientist were selected for 2009 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology on the occasion of CSIR Foundation Day celebration here today at Vigyan Bhawan. Their names discipline-wise are as under: Biological Sciences 1. Dr Amitabh Joshi, Jawaharlal Nehru Centr... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:00:28 GMT