The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) organised a workshop training teachers from varsities across the country in developing online courses. “How to create/develop online courses” workshop was attended by 21 faculty members from various universities, including Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, Anna University, Chennai, and Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Maharashtra. “Open universities in the world and [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Jawaharlal Nehru University is moving towards a near-perfect 27% implementation of the OBC reservation in the 2011-12 admission session. After a high percentage of OBC seats remaining vacant in the two previous sessions, JNU has decided to admit students on the basis of qualifying marks in this category, independent of the general cutoff. “The OBC [...]

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The Centre’s decision to conduct a common entrance test (CET) for admission to MBBS courses at all government and private medical colleges across the country has left the medical education authorities in state worried. “Our main concern is what will happen if a sufficient number of students from Orissa don’t qualify in the all-India test,” [...]

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Due to delayed results of the final year engineering students, Gujarat Technology University (GTU) has once again postponed the last date for the submission of marksheets for students seeking admission to MBA and MCA courses. The last date has been fixed on July 25. Earlier, GTU had decided July 7 as the last date of [...]

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Come next academic session, students seeking to get into a medical school will have to appear for a Common Entrance Test (CET). The Union health ministry and the Medical Council of India (MCI) have reached a consensus to roll out CET for admission to all government, private medical colleges and deemed universities for MBBS course [...]

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The Commissioner for Entrance Examinations, Kerala, has invited applications for an entrance examination to be held on August 13 in Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and Kozhikode for admission to the three-year, six-semester, full-time Master of Computer Applications (MCA) course in 33 institutions affiliated to the University of Kerala, Mahatma Gandhi University, the University of Calicut or Kannur [...]

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Counselling for re-allotment to government and self-financing medical colleges and allotment to the medical and dental colleges for 2011-2012 will begin on July 28. The counselling will be held at Kilapuk Medical College auditorium till August 4. No individual intimation will be sent for re-allotment, officials said. Students who were selected during the first phase [...]

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The BEd counselling entered the fifth day on Monday. As many as 35,071 candidates had locked their seats across the state so far. There are roughly one lakh seats in 971 colleges across the state. As the first phase of counselling is to continue till July 27, it is expected that a large chunk of [...]

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