Price rise eating into midday meals at Bengal schoolsKOLKATA - Midday meals - a surefire way of ensuring attendance in West Bengal’s state-run schools - are taking a hit due to the escalating prices of rice and vegetables. The money given by the central and state governments for it is proving grossly inadequate. Judge says officials wrong to prohibit blind UCLA grad’s use of computer during state bar exam
Judge OKs blind grad’s computer use for bar exam Student offers virginity for sale to pay university feesWELLINGTON - A 19-year-old New Zealand student is offering her virginity for sale to the highest bidder on an auction website to raise money for her university fees, a newspaper reported Saturday. Granholm proposes retirement plan for some state, public school workers aimed at cutting costs
Granholm proposes retirement plan to cut costs Students suffer as central varsity teachers skip classesNEW DELHI - For the second consecutive day, lakhs of students across India suffered as thousands of central university professors continued their protest seeking better service conditions and promotion criteria. Government’s power to accord deemed university status challengedNEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Friday took up for hearing a petition for scrapping a law that gives the government authority to accord deemed university status on private educational institutions, which hand out students “worthless paper in the name of a degree”. Kolkata B-school ties up with British varsity for MBAKOLKATA - Kolkata-based Globsyn Business School (GBS) Friday inked a tie-up with Britain’s Coventry University for a one-year Master of Business Management (MBA) programme. The course aims to impart quality education as per the standards of a British university, but at a much reduced cost. ‘10,000 school volunteers needed for CWG opening ceremony’NEW DELHI - The Commonwealth Games needs nearly 10,000 volunteers from schools for its gala opening ceremony here in October, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said Friday. Model rules to work right to education sent to statesNEW DELHI - The Right to Education (RTE) Act, which promises to make elementary education compulsory, is now a step closer to being implemented as the central government Friday sent to all states model rules under the legislation. 8,000 students to take CAT re-testNEW DELHI - Nearly 8,000 candidates, who could not appear for the Common Admission Test (CAT) for entry to the country’s top B-schools due to software glitches, would sit for the exam Saturday and Sunday, an official release said. Uneconomic schools on the rise in KeralaTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The number of uneconomic schools in Kerala has gone up from over 2500 to 3661 in a span of two years, according to a recent study. EU funded Indian studies centre established in PolandWARSAW - An Indian Centre for Contemporary Research has been set up by the European Union at Warsaw University to cater to a growing interest in India in Europe. |
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