Haryana education minister Ram Bilas Sharma has invited expressions of interest from the UK government to promote cooperation in the fields of skills development, technology, industrial development, renewable energy and solid waste management, an official spokesman informed the media in Chandigarh on November 13.
The minister made the offer to Baroness Verma, parliamentary under-secretary […]
Addressing the state’s legislative assembly on July 3, Bihar’s education minister Brishen Patel said the government will provide water bottles and backpacks to all government school children free of charge. “We are considering water bottles and backpacks for students of government schools so they need not suffer from an inferiority complex in comparison […]
THE STATE Vigilance Organisation (SVO) of the Jammu & Kashmir government has filed charges against several persons including four senior officials of the education ministry for faking appointments in Budgam district. “A case was registered against six persons after an inquiry revealed that they hatched a criminal conspiracy to make ghost […]
THE BIHAR SCHOOL Examination Board (BSEB) will conduct its matriculation (class X) examinations for every subject in two shifts. The state’s education minister P.K. Shahi informed the media in Patna on January 9, that this initiative has become necessary as the number of examinees is set to rise to 1.4 million this year.
Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) has concluded an academic cooperation and student exchange agreement with the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), Canada. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Prof. A.D.N. Bajpai and Mark D. Evered, vice chancellors of HPU and UFV in Shimla on November 6.
The MoU details articulations/transfer agreements, […]
Expressing the opinion that education is the most important investment for development and progress of society, Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio said the state government has established private colleges in almost every district. Addressing the All-Nagaland College Students Union’s 16th biennial confer-ence at Phek district on October 3, Rio said the state […]
Addressing the public on Teachers Day (September 5), Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said his government is taking all steps to strengthen the states education infrastructure to make it an engine of growth. Announcing a hike in the honorarium of contractual teachers by Rs.3,000 per month without any demand from their side, […]
The Bihar state government felicitated 120 teachers trained in English teaching under the British government-spons-ored Bihar Language Initiative in Secondary Schools (BLISS) project, at a ceremony in Patna on July 3.
Speaking on the occasion, Bihar’s education minister P.K. Shahi said: “We have a staggering 20 million students in classes I-X to […]
The opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation which has one MLA in the Jharkhand legislative assembly, has demanded sweeping changes in the education delivery mechanism in the state, and more teeth to recall non-performing panchayat (village council) members.
According to Vinod Kumar Singh, the party’s sole representative in the legislative assembly, even […]
A parliamentary panel has advocated continuance of UGC (University Grants Commission) and AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education), rejecting a government proposal for establishing an over-arching National Commission of Higher Education & Research (NCHER) which would subsume the two regulators of higher and technical education.
“The committee has strongly recommended continuance of […]
The mizoram assembly has referred its Mahatma Gandhi University Bill introduced by the state higher and technical education minister C. Lalsawta to a select committee of the legislature. On April 4, Lalsawta withdrew the Bill and sought permission of the house to refer it to the select committee for review. The […]
The Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education has established an examination centre in the Spiti Valley, Kibber, at a height of 14,200 ft. above sea level. The centre will facilitate one class X and eight class XII students to write examinations scheduled to commence on March 4, but postponed to March […]
The Delhi-based Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is set to roll out educational programmes for sex workers and their children in Gujarat in July. “The idea is to bring them into the mainstream with the help of education,’’ IGNOU’s regional director Dr. Sujit K. Ghosh announced in Ahmedabad on February 11. “We […]
Aakash Educational Services Ltd, (AES, estb. 1998), a well-known Delhi-based test prep (medical and engineering) services company, inaugurated its first centre in Kerala in Kochi on January 11. Addressing media personnel on the occasion, Aakash Chaudhry, AES director, said by end January two more centres will be opened — one at Thiruvananthapuram and […]
With laying the foundation stone of the privately promoted Indira Gandhi Technological and Medical Sciences University (IGTMSU) in lower Subansiri district in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh (pop. 1.38 million) on December 28, the first step has been taken to provide professional higher education in the state. “The commitment of […]
The Dehradun-based Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) announced detailed plans to inaugurate a branch office in Tripura at a media conference in Agartala on November 28.
The office will be sited in the Shantirbazar forest division of South Tripura district. According to Dr. V.K. Bahuguna, director-general of ICFRE, the branch office […]
The Indian Army is opposed to implementing s. 12 (1) (c) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (aka RTE Act), which mandates 25 percent reservation for children of weaker and disadvantaged groups in the neighbourhood of its 150 schools countrywide. According to an army […]
With the newly constituted Gondwana University — sited in the heart of the Naxal insurgency affected Gadchiroli district — having admitted its first batch of students in August, the demand for a separate divisional office of the Maharashtra Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (MSHSEB) located here, is gaining ground. “Currently, all education-related […]
Under the state government’s Kanya Vidya Dhan programme announced on August 22, girl students who clear the intermediate (Plus Two) or equivalent examination from 2012 onwards, will be awarded a lumpsum Rs.30,000.
According to a government order, every girl student who qualifies for this scheme subject to the proviso […]
Tripura will soon host an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) with the Centre having reportedly approved it. “Though a formal letter hasn’t been received by the state government as yet, we understand the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry has issued a notification clearing the proposal for establishing an IIIT in […]
The Assam state government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd — a wholly-owned subsidiary of the US-based Microsoft Corp (annual revenue: $60 billion or Rs.342,000 crore) — to expedite adoption of new information and communications technology (ICT) in its schools. The year-long alliance will accelerate […]
The Rajasthan high court has issued notice to the state government to provide enabling facilities to the visually impaired in public institutions. A division bench of the high court comprising Chief Justice Arun Kumar Mishra and Justice N. K. Jain (Sr), issued notice to the state government on May 8 while admitting […]
The principal’s post in all the 15 government law colleges in Rajasthan is vacant. Replying to a question in the state legislative assembly on April 19, the minister of state for higher education, Dayaram Parmar, said the matter of departmental promotions, through which these vacancies have to be filled, is sub judice. “So […]
Haryana will have a National Law University, sited in Rajiv Gandhi Education City, Sonepat. In all, 16 Bills, including the National Law University Haryana Bill, 2012, five amendment Bills relating to higher education and the Haryana Private Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2012, were passed on March 9, the concluding day of the […]
Reacting to the May 25 decision of the state government to allow English (together with Konkani and Marathi) as media of instruction in schools, the Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (BBSM) likened the Congress-led Digambar Kamat government to the state’s former Portuguese rulers “who tried to finish local culture by displacing local languages”.
The Rajasthan state government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Vedanta Foundation and Hindustan Zinc under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Education for All) programme on July 16. Under the terms of the MoU, the foundation and the company will provide e-content to 482 government primaries which will benefit 50,000 children per […]
The Union government suspended Prof. R.A. Yadav, chairman of All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), from office with effect from July 29 following his refusal to step down or proceed on leave in the wake of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filing a graft case against him. “Chairman of AICTE Prof. […]
The Nagaland state government’s education department has commiss-ioned an NGO to undertake an assessment project to grade schools. The project on quality education and students development was launched on April 29. The survey, conducted by the Mayangnokcha Award Trust, will cover Kohima, Dimapur and Mokokchung districts.
The Union government’s Department of Science & Technology (DST) has announced a special package comprising grants and scholarships to upgrade science education in Jammu and Kashmir’s colleges and universities.
Addressing vice-chancellors of all universities of J&K in Srinagar on May 3, DST’s T. Ramasamy said that the department will provide Rs.50 […]
The Orissa State Human Rights Commission (OSHRC) has asked the local administration of Kendrapara district to expeditiously file a report in connection with alleged denial of primary education to over 500 children of sea-erosion hit villages in the district.
This notice to the district administration was issued after several parents residing in the […]
Widely advertised as India’s most advanced state in the fields of education, health and land reforms, Kerala (pop. 32 million) is all set to become the country’s role model for sports education, says Kerala sports minister M. Vijayakumar. Inaugurating the National School Athletics Championship in Kochi on January 7, Vijayakumar announced that Kerala […]
Bihar will soon become a hub of professional education following the inauguration of a number of greenfield technical and medical institutes, the state’s chief minister Nitish Kumar said at a press conference in Darbhanga district on November 20. “The state government is promoting new engineering and medical colleges to prevent the flight of […]
On August 4, a bench of the Bombay high court reserved its verdict on a PIL (public interest litigation) writ challenging the percentile system which seeks to ‘normalise’ marks scored by students writing the school leaving exams of differing examination boards. After hearing the case of the parent of a CISCE board affiliated school […]
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