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- Maharashtra colleges told to appoint principals in six months
New Delhi, July 2: The Supreme Court today asked the private colleges in Maharashtra to appoint "eligible and qualified" regular principals in the next six months.
The court s....
- Colleges to come up in Maoist strongholds
Raipur, June 28: The Chhattisgarh government has approved setting up of polytechnic colleges, or technical institutes, in Dantewada and Bijapur districts of the state that are known to be the n....
- New Vice Chancellor for BIT-Mesra
Ranchi, June 22: The Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, Ranchi got a permanent vice chancellor (VC) after a gap of one-and-half years with Ajay Chakrabarty today assuming the post.
- Punjab to tap young talent for better professionals
Chandigarh, May 23: Under a programme to detect talent at an early stage, the Punjab government proposes to identify extraordinary students in schools and colleges and nurture them to become be....
- State-run footwear institute gets four new campuses
New Delhi, April 26: The Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI), which is run by the central government, is ready with four new campuses across India at an investment of Rs.384 crore,....
- Punjab private colleges to observe strike on Feb 26
Chandigarh: Nearly 190 private colleges of Punjab will observe an 'education bandh' (strike) on Feb 26 on the call of the Joint Action Committee (JAC), which represents their faculty, p....
- Hansraj College shut after student's death
New Delhi: A day after a 23-year-old visually challenged student of Hansraj College in Delhi University was found hanging in his hostel room, the college administration today called a meeting o....
- Model colleges in backward districts approved
New Delhi: The cabinet today approved the setting up of a model college in each of the 374 districts identified as educationally backward.
Less than 12 students out of every 100 study....
- Unesco to set up Gandhi peace, development institute
New Delhi: Unesco will soon set up the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Peace and Sustainable Development in the national capital, the organisation's director general said today.
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- New IT centre to come up in Kolkata by 2011
Kolkata: The West Bengal capital will have a dedicated information technology (IT) centre spread over two acres by 2011.
"The project when completed will generate direct employmen....
- Punjab to set up 13 new colleges
Mohali (Punjab): Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today announced that 13 new degree colleges would come up in the state by next year at a cost of Rs.104 crore.
These college....
- Educational institutions in Manipur shut for three weeks
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 gover....
- Andhra Pradesh allowed to offer engineering courses in evening shift
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today paved the way for the Andhra Pradesh government to run the evening shift of three-year engineering diploma courses, putting aside objections from private coll....
- College enrolment a challenge for India: Sibal
Chandigarh: Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal today expressed concern over the poor enrolment from schools to colleges in India, and observed that the national average....
- Teachers' strike cripples work in Madhya Pradesh colleges
Bhopal: Normal functioning in most colleges and universities in Madhya Pradesh came to a standstill today as more teachers' bodies joined an ongoing strike by professors demanding a revised....
- IIT Punjab to start working from its new campus from Aug 20
New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Punjab will start functioning from its new campus on August 20, after an year of parenting at the IIT Delhi.
The institute will fun....
- Kirori Mal College to take strict action against two for ragging
New Delhi: Authorities at Delhi University's Kirori Mal College today said they would take stringent action against two of its students accused of ragging a junior in the hostel and would t....
- Six held for impersonating in exams
Chandigarh: Six men were caught appearing in place of other examinees at an examination centre at a local college here on Sunday, police said.
According to police, five of the arreste....
- Govt mulling autonomous colleges with strict norms: Sibal
New Delhi: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said the government was considering allowing new autonomous colleges to be set up independent of universities but with strin....
- Polytechnic faculty teaching in Bihar engineering colleges
Patna: Polytechnic faculty members have been teaching in engineering colleges with the full knowledge of the Bihar government, a minister has admitted.
Bihar Science and Technology M....
- 'Most private colleges are money-spinning factories'
Bangalore: The proposed oversight body for higher education is a "welcome development", says Pushpa Bhargava, former vice-chairman of the Knowledge Commission. According to him, the pre....
- UP colleges plan to ban jeans, set dress code
Lucknow: Principals of many colleges in Uttar Pradesh are mulling a proposal to ban students from wearing jeans on campus and work out a dress code for them, officials said on Monday.
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- Jeans prohibited on Kanpur college campuses
Lucknow: Four Kanpur colleges have banned students from wearing jeans, saying it will keep eve-teasing in check. Students are livid about the decision.
Dayanand Degree College (DDC), ....
- What studies? JNU residents worry over water
New Delhi: The water trickles in for only an hour a day and those who need more queue near tankers, bucket in hand. This is not a scene from a slum or a deprived village, but in the campus of t....
- SC orders fire safety measures in schools
New Delhi: In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court Monday ordered installation of fire-extinguishing equipment and adoption of other safety measures in all government and private schools acr....
- PU teachers rally behind suspended professors
Chandigarh: University and college teachers in Punjab have come out in support of three professors who were suspended from a leading college here for allegedly misbehaving with the principal.....
- College teachers in Punjab, Chandigarh on strike
Chandigarh: Teachers of government and non-government colleges in Punjab and the union territory of Chandigarh went on a 72-hour strike Tuesday demanding higher pay.
The 72-hour 'Educati....
- Students can be suitable brides-at this women's college
Ranchi: Students in a college are expected to study and broaden their horizons. But the principal of one such women's institution in Jharkhand thinks it can be a happy hunting ground for su....
- A historic Gujarat college fighting for survival
Mehsana: The magnificent building bearing the hallmark of European architecture is the college where Gujarat's Chief Minister Narendra Modi and former chief minister Shankarsinh Vaghela studi....
- Delhi cabinet okays fee hike in private un-aided schools
New Delhi: Get ready to dole out more for the education of your children in the capital's schools, as the Delhi cabinet has given its nod to a fee hike for recognised un-aided private schools....
- Oracle to introduce ThinkQuest in Andhra Pradesh schools
Hyderabad: Oracle Education Foundation (OEF) will roll out its online learning platform 'ThinkQuest' in 500 schools in Andhra Pradesh.
OEF and the Institute for Electronic Governance (IEG)....
- Read about Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh's school textbook
Raipur: Chhattisgarh's controversial counter-insurgency civil militia campaign, Salwa Judum, has found a mention in school textbooks with the state government bringing out a separate chapter ....
- Teachers' mass leave paralyses Punjab colleges, universities
Chandigarh: Academic activity was completely paralysed in colleges and universities across Punjab and Chandigarh on Wednesday following a mass casual leave protest by teachers in the region.
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- Government-published books have little on corruption, terrorism
New Delhi: There are no school or college textbooks, at least those published by the government institutions, that explicitly sensitise children on two of India's burning issues - terrorism a....
- Two children die after having mid-day meal
Bhopal: Two children died and four others were taken seriously ill after eating the mid-day meal served at a government school in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district after the Republic Day funct....
- Over 10,000 teachers observe 2-hour strike in Punjab
Chandigarh: Over 10,000 teachers of various government and private colleges in Punjab and Chandigarh observed a strike for two hours on Thursday to press for their pay hike demand.
The tea....
- Aware of his rights, boy ensures teacher for school
New Delhi: For six months he and his peers, all students of the crucial Class 10, went without a science teacher. That's when 15-year-old Haryana boy Wasim Akram remembered a chapter on his r....
- Madhya Pradesh guest lecturers hold protest sit in
Bhopal: Hundreds of guest lecturers from across Madhya Pradesh held a sit-in outside the house of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here on Friday demanding regularization of their service.
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- Manmohan Singh to inaugurate St Xavier's sesquicentenary celebrations
Kolkata: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Kolkata Jan 21 to inaugurate the 150 year celebrations of St Xaviers', the institute's authorities on Thursday said.
"Singh will come to K....
- Sikkim student commits suicide in Allahabad
Allahabad: A meritorious B.Tech student, hailing from Sikkim, allegedly committed suicide in his hostel room here on Wednesday, officials said.
Sovit Agarwal, of the Moti Lal Nehru National ....
- Over 9,000 students take part in cultural meet
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala School Kalotsavam, a mega cultural meet, is all set to enter the Guinness Book of Records as nearly 9,000 students are taking part in over 215 events.
Stude....
- Principal refuses to accept food from Dalit girls
Lucknow: Six Dalit girl students in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday accused their school principal of refusing to taste food they cooked for their home science practical examinations.
Princ....
- Nursing college principal cuts Dailt girl's hair
Lucknow: Annoyed with a Dalit girl student for not wearing her hair in a bun as a part of the dress code in a nursing college in Uttar Pradesh, the principal cut her hair in a fit of rage,....
- Delhi High Court raps govt on illegal schools
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today pulled up the Delhi government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for not checking mushrooming growth of unauthorised schools in the capit....
- Patna's St Michaels school turns 150 years old
Patna: It was about 150 years ago that the Capuchin fathers founded a school for boys near a village along the banks of river Ganges, now in the heart of the Bihar capital. St Michaels s....
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