Campus Digest

New Delhi, Jun 22: Nearly three decades after the last such exercise was undertaken, the Modi government will formulate a new national education policy "reflecting the aspirations of India now and opportunities in the next decade", HRD minister Smriti Irani said in an exclusive interview, her first to the English media after assuming office. Irani said the new policy will be put together after

Bangalore, Jun 15: The precision associated with mathematics is not a virtue of the new Class X mathematics textbook of State Syllabus. Almost every chapter in the new textbook is riddled with errors. Mathematics teachers and officials in the State Education Department have spotted these mistakes. The revised textbook, which is supposed to conform to CBSE standards, has already been distributed to

Pilibhit, Jun 7: Union human resources development minister Smriti Irani's decision to set up eight new IITs has sparked an interesting debate. Students from the older IITs have begun an online petition seeking review of the move, and 6,000 signatures were gathered in less than a week. The petition, submitted to the minister online by IIT Kharagpur student Digvijay Patil, sought that the

New Delhi, May 29: Girls have fared much better than boys in this year's CBSE class XII examinations, where the overall pass percentage stood at 82.66 per cent. The pass percentage of girls stood at 88.52 as compared to 78.27 per cent for boys. Thiruvananthapuram Region registered the best results among all the regions, posting a pass percentage of 94.26, said CBSE in a statement, after the

Chandigarh, May 26: About 1,900 students from the tricity appeared for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), Advanced, in Chandigarh on Sunday to get admission in total 16 Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), including IT-BHU and ISM Dhanbad, at several centres, including DAV, Sector-15, and Shivalik School, Sector-41. It is worth mentioning that 1.5 lakh students were declared eligible for JEE

Melbourne, May 22: Australia is rebounding as a preferred study destination for Indian students with latest official data showing more than 17 per cent jump in their enrolments in the country's education institutions this year. A total of 35,671 students across all sectors including higher education were enrolled from India during the first three months this year as compared to 30,372 registered

New Delhi, May 13: President Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said India "must regain" the lost glory of its educational institutions and once again become a centre for "cross fertilization of ideas from across the world." Addressing a delegation from QS, ICAA, British Council, FICCI and KPMG who presented the first copy of "QS University Rankings: Asia 2014" to Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan here Monday

Kolkata, May 11: Students of architecture from Denmark and all over India are in the city to study the Anglo-Indian community and Chinese settlement and document their architectural heritage at Bow Barracks and old Chinatown at Territi Bazaar. Led by Kamalika Bose, assistant professor, faculty of design at India's premier architecture institute CEPT University, the 27 students of whom 12 are from

New Delhi, May 2: Campus hirings across second rung business schools in the country have been severely hit this year due to economic slowdown, with only 18 per cent students landing job offers after completing the two-year MBA course, says an Assocham survey. The salary packages offered at these B-schools have also been curtailed by 40-45 per cent as compared to last year, according to the survey

Bangalore, Apr 25: Private engineering colleges in Karnataka have agreed to go ahead with last year's fee structure for professional courses. The Karnataka Unaided Private Engineering Colleges Association on Thursday decided to stop demanding a fee increase for the coming academic year. With this, the fees will remain at Rs 38,090 for CET students, and 45% of the seats in private colleges will go