Corporate Updates
Dell Education Cloud out now
Customised curriculum which can create an engaging education learning environment will now be available to teachers and students because of Dell.
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K-12
INR 48 crores for Schools in Chandigarh
It was reported that the Chandigarh administration is to spend around INR 48 crore this fiscal to enhance the facilities and infrastructure in existing schools and construct new schools in this union territory.
K-12
Dikshit appreciates government schools’ efforts
Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit and Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely recently, appreciated noticable improvement and overall performance of the government schools in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams.
Policy Matters
Sibal says 20 lakh teachers needed to implement RTE
Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal mentioned that government needs to recruit 20 lakh teachers to successfully implement the Right to Education Act.
Policy Matters
Becta to close, says Government
Recently, it was reported that the government agency for promoting the use of technology in education, BECTA, will be closing down as part of cost cutting.
Corporate Updates
Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 launched in India, allows multiple students to share one PC
IT adoption in the Indian education sector continues to be hampered by issues of accessibility, affordability, and relevance: today students in less than 8 % of government schools have access to computers.
Corporate Updates
Students of M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, develop Automatic Cooking Machine (SMOOK)
A committed team of four Final Year Mechanical Engineering students of the M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology , have designed and developed an Automatic Cooking Machine which automatically cooks the required dish without any human...
Corporate Updates
EDUCOMP forays into Management Education
Educomp Raffles Higher Education Limited, India
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Environmental issues to receive educational programmes
UNESCO and NGO Green Energy Foundation and Unesco are to join hands June 5 to launch an education-cum-training programme called ‘Ecovarsity’ which will focus on environmental issues.
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Youth and School dropouts to receive training from Premier engineering institutes
The National Institutes of Technology (NIT), India’s premier engineering and technology education centres, is to provide skill development training to school dropouts and unemployed youth.
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Locating under privileged talent in Punjab by Super 30
‘Super 30’ fame Ramanujan School of Mathematics (RSM), that helps poor but academically bright students from Bihar villages to enter IITs, has partnered with US-based Bhai Jaitajee Foundation (BJF) to provide an opportunity to poor children...
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Harvard with new Dean Nitin Nohria to focus on Innovation
Nitin Nohria before taking over as the tenth dean of the Harvard Business School on July 1, will be hosting a conference on imagining the future of leadership with his colleagues Rakesh Khurana and Scott Snook.