Indian scholars to visit Israel

A total of 66 post doctoral scholars shall travel from India to Israel to do research at top universities. They will be sponsored by the Israel Government. The Israel Government has announced 3-year scholarships for the selected people.The Embassy of Israel says that this is the first of kind programme, in which distinguished researchers from India are going to Israel to do research on a variety of issues.With regards to this programme, fellows from Universities of Lucknow, Calcutta, Delhi and...

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Standard of higher education needs to be improved: Pranab Mukherjee

President Pranab Mukherjee on December 28 pitched for improving the standards of higher education by Indian universities and also asked the private players also to contribute their best as there were 'unlimited' demands and 'limited' resources in the sector. "The standards of higher education in India today need improvement. In ancient India, we had universities like Nalanda and Takshashila which had established themselves as international centers of educational excellence where students from...

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Pundits try to improve interactive education

Moscow State University (MGU) hosted a scientific and practical conference entitled "Interactive Education" in mid-December. It was the third time that education experts had gathered together inside the walls of MSU to share their experience of interactive forms of practical learning. The speakers at the conference included representatives of Facebook Russia, Google Russia, AFK Sistema, and JSC Russian Venture Company. All the participants were united by a common thought: how to make the educational...

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Free education from political interference, communal bias

Sending a clear signal that education should be freed from undue political interference and communal bias, Archbishop of Goa and Daman, Filipe Neri Ferrao, raised concerns that the church in Goa, being the largest education provider in the state, is not being given adequate representation by the government in decision making.Addressing the customary Christmas week civic reception on Thursday, Ferrao said, "I take this opportunity to highlight a couple of problems that continue to be a cause of grave concern to the people of Goa and, consequently,...

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NComputing eyes more ICT education projects in India

Having successfully implemented its low-cost shared computing technology across government schools in seven states, NComputing Inc, a US-based provider of desktop virtualisation, is now in the process of bidding for more such projects in the country.The privately-owned company, which forayed into the Indian market four-and-a-half-years ago, has so far deployed 700,000 seats across state educational projects and private educational institutions in India, including 60,500 seats in Andhra Pradesh.Its latest project was the deployment of high-performance...

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Indian MBA students world’s most academically distinguished: Survey

It is students from IIM-Bangalore, not from Harvard or Stanford or even MIT, who excel at GMAT, the entrance test for the creme de la creme of B-schools across the world.According to the QS Global 200 Business Schools report, Indian MBA candidates are the world's most academically distinguished, with students of the IIM-B, scoring the highest average of 780. IIM-B students are ahead of the leading US institution Stanford and INSEAD in Europe, the survey said.While the average GMAT score of Stanford is 730, INSEAD lies at 704. Second to IIM-B students...

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Why India's primary education system needs a STIR

CNBC-TV18's special show Young Turks is on a mission to stir things up in India’s education sector driven by logic that Indian schools need, better ideas and not necessarily more money. 35-year-old Sharath Jeevan founded STIR Education with the aim of driving change in our primary education system, STIR Education works to identify, test and scale up promising grass-root micro innovations to improve learning.Sharath Jeeven, Founder & CEO, STIR Education is on a mission to transform the lives of the world’s poorest urban children. He founded...

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Chess instills skills for education, life: Viswanathan Anand

Chess is not only a game but a fun activity for schoolchildren as it inculcates useful skills for education as well as for life, chess wizard Viswanathan Anand said Thursday. "Playing chess enhances the memory, gives confidence, teaches problem solving, increases concentration...," the five-time world champion said after inaugurating an NIIT Mind Champions Academy at the Global Indian International School (GIIS) here."Chess teaches you that all moves have consequences," he said, adding this was...

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Govt. planning new authority to regulate higher education: Tharoor

New Delhi, Dec.21 (ANI): Admitting that there is a "clear gap in the overall regulation of higher education", the Minister for State for Human Resource Develpment, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, today said that the government is planning to establish an over-arching authority to set and coordinate standards in higher education.elivering the keynote address at a seminar on "Higher Education: Affirmative Action and Skill Gaps" at Observer Research Foundation today, the Minister said a draft bill to create a new over-arching authority to set standards in higher...

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Back to basics: India needs agri, health, education reforms

On CNBC-TV18's special show, India at Global Crossroads, a panel of eminent guests including Theodore (Ted) Voorhees, chairman, ABA Anti Trust Section, Ashok Chawla, chairperson, CCI and M Damodaran, former chairman SEBI shared their insights on the issues plaguing the country.India hosts a 3rd of the world's poor and half of the world's malnourished. It is 95th on the corruption index and 132nd on the index of business confidence. At a time, when on a high interest rates, inflation, subsidy and deficit, but on a low is accountability, confidence,...

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Malaysia Education Ministry to 'scrutinize' Indian teachers before hiring

Malaysia's Education Ministry has given an assurance that it will carry out a study on the suitability of English teachers from India before hiring them.Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, while responding to a statement from the National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) which had called for a study on the proposal to recruit English teachers from India, said it would need to assess the teachers' background, expertise and qualifications, reports The Star.NUTP president Hashim Adnan said discussions must be carried out with experts,...

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Private Delhi schools can now run second shift

NEW DELHI: Private unaided schools can now run a second shift after regular school hours. This shift, however, would have to be run as a separate entity with no common teachers or other school staff, according to a decision taken by the Delhi School Education Advisory Board on Wednesday.Private schools have been asking for a second shift, saying it would put their infrastructure to optimum use and benefit more students. The DSEAB said maximum points would have to be given to the 'neighbourhood' criterion for nursery admissions.The board, which...

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Malaysia keen to recruit English teachers from India

Malaysia is keen to recruit teachers from India who are skilled in the English Language to teach our students in Malaysia, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak."One of the proposals that I have forwarded to Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh for consideration this morning was to accept a number of teachers from India who are skilled in the English Language to teach our students in Malaysia," he said.He said Manmohan had welcomed the proposal and would instruct the relevant minister to hold discussions with the Malaysian Education...

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Zuckerberg donates $500 million for health, education

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is donating half a billion dollars in Facebook stock to a Silicon Valley charity, his second major donation since committing to giving away most of his wealth.The 28-year old co-founder of the world's largest online social network said in a Facebook post on Tuesday that he would work with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to "look for areas in education and health to focus on."Zuckerberg, whose stake in vested Facebook shares is worth roughly $11 billion, announced plans in 2010 to give a $100...

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More girls go to schools at primary, upper primary levels

 More girls attend schools regularly than boys at primary and upper primary levels, a survey by independent agencies has shown, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.“...attendance rates of girls at primary level were 70.6 per cent against the overall average of 68.5 per cent and 78.7 per cent at upper primary levels against the overall average of 75 per cent,” Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor said.He said this came to light in a study done by independent agencies on assessing attendance...

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Can Public Education as We Know it Survive?

Americans are now confronted with two radically different visions of public education. Which vision ultimately prevails will go a long way toward determining the quality of the education available to future generations of children.The first -- call it the "private" -- vision can be seen in the well-funded efforts in states and localities across the country to dismantle many of the fundamental structures of public education that have evolved since the mid-19th century and to replace them with models borrowed from the private sector.These efforts...

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Call for change in education sector

Former minister and RSP (B) leader N K Premachandran said that lack of sincere politics has a clear reflection on the higher education system and demanded a structural change in the education system.Presenting the third lecture in the Platinum Jubilee lecture series of Kerala University on the topic 'Higher Education and Kerala Politics', Premachandran said high decline in the number of post graduates and research scholars has an adverse effect on the society and it increases the number of educated unemployed."Politicization of Indian education...

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Ideas galore for quality education

LUCKNOW: In order to ensure high standard of education in state universities, there is requirement of a state assessment council, similar to the National Assessment and Accreditation (NAAC) for constant monitoring of higher education institutions by the state government. This was put forth by the vice-chancellor, DDU Gorakhpur University, P C Trivedi the keynote speaker for academic reforms at the vice-chancellors (VCs) conference on Wednesday.A range of discussions covering academic, administrative and financial aspects of state universities...

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India, the next giant in he

SANTIAGO INIGUEZ, president, IE University, talks to Karan Gupta, study abroad consultant, about the challenges facing higher education worldwideWhat are the key challenges facing higher education today?It depends on the region you analyse because we see that the focus has now moved from the Western hemisphere to Asia and so the problems in Europe and in the US are different from those that universities face in Asia or Latin America. For example, if you look at Europe and US, you'll find that we are attending to problems of governance at most...

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‘Sex Education Is Not Just About Preventing Pregnancy’

Scientist and broadcaster Aarathi Prasad has a PhD in mammalian cell cycle biology from Imperial College, London, and in her new book Like A Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex (Oneworld, 2012), she tackles the notion of reproduction without the sex act. Dr Prasad is a single parent, with a young daughter she had with a white father. Excerpts from an interview with Saptarshi Ray:Your book is a very different take on the nature of reproduction. Have humans really been doing it so badly all this time?Humans are pretty sub-fertile...

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Revolutionising trends in Indian system of education

The coming decade will see a 'phenomenal evolution in the school education landscape', say experts. While some opine that higher education needs to be defined by quality, others say that technology will further percolate into classrooms.Syed Sultan Ahmed, Managing Director of Edumedia India Pvt Ltd, said, "One clear area of evolution I see for schools will be a shift of focus from 'marks based' academic curriculum to 'life based' overall development. Schools talk a lot about it these days but do very little. In the coming years, colleges and universities...

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Students of distance education entitled to study material

BANGALORE: Beginning next academic year, students pursuing distance education under the Bangalore University (BU) will be entitled to study material too. The courseware framed under the revised syllabus will be printed and supplied to those who have registered for various courses offered by DCC&DE (Directorate of Correspondence Courses and Distance Education) from 2013-14.Hitherto, the university was only giving reference material and not study material to the students.Announcing the decision at the academic council here on Friday, acting...

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Tripura's poor to get free education till Class 12

The Left Front government in Tripura Wednesday announced free education to poor students, covering the entire period of school education, up to class 12.The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, of the central government offers free education only up to Class 8.Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said that starting from the next academic session, beginning January, students belonging to BPL (below poverty line) families would get free text books and other facilities up to class 12."The decision was taken aiming at universalisation of education,...

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1086 Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) functioning in India

A comprehensive review of the scheme of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) was assigned to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore on 6th February, 2009. The IIM, Bangalore has submitted its recommendations on 15th February, 2011. The Board of Governors (BOG) of the KVS have considered the recommendations of the IIM, Bangalore and evaluated the response of the KVS thereon in its meeting. The KVs are opened upon receipt of a viable proposal in the prescribed proformae from the various...

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ASE and GE Healthcare to educate use of ultrasound in remote areas

American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and GE Healthcare (GE) are in rural northwest India again to utilise advances in cardiovascular ultrasound technology to enhance medical education for healthcare providers caring for the underserved populations in India.An organised team of ASE member sonographers and physicians have travelled to New Delhi to train Indian physicians in image acquisition while testing the possibilities of remote medical education. The educational event is a collaboration with Medanta – The Medicity, one of India’s largest...

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Accentia Education launches tablet, laptop for students

THIRUVANANTHPURAM: Technopark headquartered Accentia Technologies made a giant stride into the IT and education sector by launching four new innovative products under the its education banner.The products are iNotePad, iNoteBook, Safecomm and iSchoolPad.The iNotePad is an Android Jellybean tablet that would perfectly meet the needs of today's digital home, office and person.Priced at Rs.7,800, the iNoteBook is the most innovative and affordable laptop for e-education. It runs on the Android operating...

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e-District Programme Expanded in India

The state of Kerala in India is gearing up for an ambitious expansion of the e-district programme, a national project launched to digitise high volume citizen services and automate workflow and internal processes of district administration in India.The pilot roll-out of the programme covered 34 districts across India, two of which are in Kerala. Successful implementation in these two districts has encouraged the government to expand the programme to cover the entire state.The Kerala State Information...

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Online Education the New Trend in India

Bangalore: In India education is given the prime status, it is welcomed from all sources, even at the click of a button. Online education is catering to many students across the country since it has become available. It has seen a huge rise in the number of users over the years and the users are not just limited to the major cities. In the smaller cities it has seen an exceptional growth, as informed by the online education providers. The number of students logging in has increased by two and...

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India, Korea Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Education

A delegation led by Dr. Lee Ju-ho, Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea met Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, IN New Delhi today.Both leaders appreciated the ongoing cooperation between the two countries in the field of education and discussed the need to have more arrangements for cooperation in the field of education and research. Both sides appreciated the existing collaborations between the Universities from both...

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Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business Introduces New Online Format for its MBA Curriculum

The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University will offer its world-class MBA in a new blend of online and onsite formats beginning in the fall of 2013. The FlexMBA program creates a new model for online business education, combining in-person sessions, online classes and self-paced learning to deliver the same coursework, faculty, team interaction, personal leadership coaching and career services found in the school’s highly-acclaimed full- and part-time MBA programs. In contrast...

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Government not considering PPP model for certification of skill development courses by global major

The  Ministry of Labour & Employment has formulated National Policy on Skill Development which was approved by the Union Cabinet on 23rd February, 2009. The policy is a guiding document for implementation of various skill development programmes of the country.Presently, Government is not considering a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model for certification of skill development courses by global major and top Indian Companies. However, Sector Skills Councils are being setup which will may play an important role in development of National...

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