Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday finally approved the Right to Education in letter and spirit. The state cabinet proposed an expenditure of Rs 3,056 crore on free education to all children in the age group of 6 to 14 years during the current financial year. The fund spent by the state will be in addition [...]
Tamil Nadu students finally got the information they have been craving for more than two months. On Monday, the state school education department put out the list of approved books by private publishers that can be used as alternatives to the Samacheer Kalvi textbooks in classes 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 for the [...]
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has prepared and uploaded an all new higher secondary syllabus, required to be followed by class XI and XII students, to appear for the Common Entrance Test (CET). Come next academic session, students seeking to get into a medical school for an MBBS degree, will have to appear for [...]
The HRD ministry on Monday unveiled the pilot project for creating a national database of academic certificates issued by school boards and universities. To begin with, this year’s class XII results of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the results of the Central Teacher Eligibility Test – to be announced on Tuesday – [...]
Starting 2012, students from the state will have to appear for just one national level entrance test for admission to undergraduate and post-graduate medical colleges. Contrary to its earlier decision to stick to Eamcet (MBBS) and PG entrance tests conducted by NTR University of Medical Sciences for these admissions, the state health and medical education [...]
There’s good news for students seeking admission in masters programme in engineering and pharmacy courses. The state has received permission to start 32 new colleges offering Masters in Engineering (ME) and 10 new Masters in Pharmacy (M Pharm) colleges. This effectively means an increase of 600 ME and 200 MPharm seats. Officials said that from [...]
Students aiming to join the National Defence Academy need not wait for their Plus-Two exams to be over, to appear for the entrance exam. The Officers’ Academy, Secunderabad, announced that they can attempt the entrance test soon after Class XI or Intermediate First Year, and save a year in the bargain. Further, through a press [...]
The Medical Council of India (MCI) will conduct the common entrance test for admission to undergraduate medical courses for the academic year 2012-13 in various institutions across the country in May next year. The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for undergraduates (NEET-UG) for admission to MBBS, Post Graduate and super speciality courses will be conducted in pursuance [...]
The future of the nation depends on the quality of primary education imparted, former President Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has said. Emphasising the importance of education, Dr. Kalam said, while addressing students at a school here on Friday, that primary education must be made a fundamental right of Indian citizens. Primary education needs to be [...]
The new board of Medical Council of India (MCI) and the Union Health Ministry have decided to start Common Entrance Examination (CET) for undergraduates and post-graduate medical courses from next year in two languages — English and Hindi. The proposal to start CET had sparked off a fight between the ministry and the previous MCI [...]
