The government disclosed on Thursday that Kendriya Vidyalayas will be offering education to handicapped students across India.
 
According to Human Resource Development Minister, Kapil Sibal, who was addressing a Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan meeting, this exemption will be effective from the ...

A MoU has been signed between Indira Gandhi National Open University and Apparel Export Promotion Council so that IGNOU can offer courses in garmenting and fashion industry, which will cater to the needs of the apparel industry.
 
"The MoU aims at starting educational programmes in the ...

According to reports, the International Fellowships Programme, which is being provided by Ford Foundation of the US, will be provided till 2010 only.
 
"The IFP was launched in 2001 to broaden access to higher education and help build a new generation of leaders hailing from various ...

Government, which has an ambition for having 1,034.80 lakh skilled people by 2022, has plans for setting up 1,500 Industrial Training Institutes and 10,000 skill development centres under its National Skill Development Mission by involving private sector.
 
According to the proposal, about ...

CBSE Board, in the process of introducing grading system for evaluating its students, has mentioned that the attitude of the student towards teachers, classmates, school programmes and the environment will be graded while grading the academics and extra-curricular activities. But people are not ...

The Indira Gandhi National Open University and the Papua New Guinea University of Technology have inked a Memorandum of Understanding, which will enable the development of cultural, educational and scientific relation between the two.
 
According to Silima Nanda, director (in charge) of ...

IISc mentioned that it has plans for offering a four-year Bachelor in Science (BS) degree from 2011.
 
The BS degree, which will be unique in its way, will be a blend of fundamental science and training in engineering subjects, which will empower the students to have a better job prospect ...

Aligarh Muslim University has formed an advisory committee for developing a framework for identifying the courses for its new campuses in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra and West Bengal.
 
"The 12-member committee has been entrusted with the task of identifying courses that ...

Prathap C. Reddy, the chairman of the Apollo Group of hospitals, has mentioned that the group will soon be launching a medical college, which will offer under graduation courses.
 
"We are likely to start an undergraduate college. It is amply clear that just making hospital buildings is ...

World Bank reports state that secondary education is a ‘neglected area’ in India. India’s condition is worse when compared to that of Vietnam and Bangladesh. About 48% of Indian student do not pursue secondary education.
 
"Thirty seven percent students fail before the ...

A project of the World Bank, worth more than Rs.10 million, has been bagged by the Indira Gandhi National Open University. This project focuses on enhancing the productivity of eco-friendly farming by providing necessary training to the agricultural researchers.
 
According to the ...

Karan Singh, the President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, while talking on the ‘The Four Pillars of Education’ at the IILM and Global India Foundation in New Delhi mentioned that education should be meant for liberation in people and should not be something "which ...

The National Institute of Technology (NIT)-Warangal, which is known as a premier engineering institute, is being converted into a university which will offer a variety of courses, covering medicine, law and postgraduate degrees in humanities and business economics.
 
"The aim is to ...

Union HRD minister told on Friday that the Indian Institute of Management will not be set up in Jammu and Kashmir now. The decision was adopted by the ministry as Jammu and Kashmir recently got two central universities.
 
"It has been decided to drop the proposal for the establishment ...

The Lucknow University will be launching a two-year post-graduate degree programme in event management.
 
"The course will start from the next academic session. It has been approved by the ministry of tourism, that would also provide a financial assistance of Rs.2 crore," Manoj ...

A fully online platform called e-CAT Prep has been launched by Minglebox.com for CAT preparation. This step was taken to help MBA aspirants as Common Admission Test has been changed to Computer Based Test (CBT) in India from this year.
 
Minglebox.com aims to help students, from over 250 ...

The Indira Gandhi National Open University will offer special courses on sustainable agriculture and food security exclusively for north-eastern India.
 
B.S. Hansra, professor in IGNOU's school of agriculture said, “As agricultural education and extension services play an important ...

Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told on Monday that government will be permitting the private sectors to develop medical colleges in northeast regions, hilly areas and other backward states.
 
"We will allow the private sector to set up medical colleges in backward states, hilly ...

The Central government has plans to set up three more universities which will exclusively be catering to the educational needs of the minorities of India.
 
"Three universities primarily for the students of minority communities will be set up with a view to providing them better higher ...

Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot has disclosed that government will be enabling 5,000 schools and 20,000 colleges broadband-enabled. This decision has been taken by the government for promoting the concept of e-learning in the rural areas.
 
"We are holding ...

The government on Thursday announced that the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Textile Management located in Coimbatore will be rechristened as Indian School of Textiles, after it undergoes upgrading works.
 
"The school will engage itself in research and will also undertake ...

The two new Collins dictionaries, which will be published, will offer a guide for text messaging abbreviations for Indian cell phone users as well as a Shakespeare guide.
 
HarperCollins India, Ratna Sagar Publishers and the British Council will be releasing the two new dictionaries - the ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni has disclosed on Tuesday that India's premier institute of journalism, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, will have four more branches across India.
 
She also added that IIMC will be upgraded to the status of international media ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education has plans to divide the Class X into two semesters so that the evaluation of the students becomes easier and smoother, once the board exams are dropped in 2011.
 
"Once the examination is scrapped from 2011, we will divide the year into two terms ...

The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, has announced on Monday that there will be no board exams for the Class X students under the Central Board of Secondary Education from 2010-11 academic year. He also added that instead of the board exams, the concept of grading will be ...

The search for nursery and school admission will be easier now and will just be at a mouse’s click. The CBSE has plans for an online public mapping of all the affiliated schools of its board in Delhi.
 
‘‘There are so many schools in the capital that parents often have ...

According to a child psychologist, even though the decision for making Class X board exams optional was a good decision, it can increase the level of stress in students when they appear for class 12 exams. 
 
"The decision (to make Class 10 board exam optional) can be a problem for ...

The first trilingual English-Kashmiri-Hindi online dictionary, ‘Kashmiri Zabari’, has been launched by Kashmir University.  This dictionary is the storehouse of 12,000 words.
 
The dictionary, which has been compiled by the Department of Linguistics of Kashmir University, ...

IGNOU, which is an expert in long distance education across India and the globe, has plans to decentralise its evaluation process, similar to one which has been implemented by CBSE.
 
"We are putting in place a Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)-style decentralisation ...

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal met with the directors of IIT which has led to the resolving of the issues related to salary, because of which the IIT professors had gone on a strike.
 
The IIT directors were given a presentation by the HRD ministry officials, according to which the IIT lecturers ...