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November 2009

  • Unqualified education committee members set to lose their posts
    30th November 2009
    Praveen Singh

    Maharashtra state government has decided to upgrade the criterion of education standards for the candidates seeking election or state nominations to the Education Committee of local self governments. It is a landmark decision taken after months of deliberations.

  • Teachers decide to gherao Higher Education Directorate
    30th November 2009
    Lakshmi Anil

    To register their protest against the government’s delay in implementing its decision to give cent percent block grant to 488 junior colleges and 265 other colleges, both the left out teaching and non-teaching staff of these institutions has announced that they will gherao the Directorate of Higher Education on December 9. 

  • Pune biotech students win global honour
    30th November 2009
    Huned Contractor

    For Pune-based Swetha Srinivasan, Mandar Pathak, Samit Watve, Chinar Patil, Amrita Oak, Sharvari Sathe and Rahul Bhosale as also their advisors B A Chopade, head of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology at the University of Pune and PhD research fellow Praveen K Sahu, their stay in the United States from October 29 to November 2 turned out to be something they will never forget in life. On an invitation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Boston, the seven-member team and their advisors made a presentation that won them the bronze medal amidst stiff competition. 

  • Performance to determine fee structure for engineering colleges
    30th November 2009
    Huned Contractor

    When the fee fixation panel called the Shikshan Shulka Samiti (SSS) of Maharashtra decides to finalise the fees for the engineering colleges, a primary factor to be taken into consideration will be the key performance indicators (KPIs) devised by the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) for grading engineering colleges. This was announced by the SSS’ Office Secretary P E Gaikwad.

  • Online CAT kicks off amid technical glitches, bad management
    30th November 2009
    Praveen Singh

    What if one of the most prestigious exams, Common Admission Test (CAT) meant to test future managers through MBA, fails to live up to their reputation? If such a prestigious test can face glitches, expecting the rest, if any, to succeed would be an act of sheer stupidity.     
     

  • CAT fiasco: IIMs’ in the dock
    30th November 2009
    Lakshmi Anil

    It might be true that good management is all about minimizing vagueness and rectifying methodical inaccuracies. But the country’s top management teaching institutes, the IIMs, seem to be clueless when it comes to handling the weekend CAT fiasco. The manner in which the coordination committee of the IIMs responded to the dismal failure added to the woes of the students. 

  • MP Govt. seeks Rs 484 cr from UGC for raise to teachers
    28th November 2009
    Praveen Singh

    Government college and university teachers in Madhya Pradesh are all set to get the long overdue UGC pay scales. In order to foot the bill incurred on the increased pay scales of these teachers, the state government has demanded Rs 484 crore from the University Grants Commission (UGC).

  • Primary education up to class VIII: Proposal rejected
    27th November 2009
    Praveen Singh

    A proposal to extend primary education up to class VIII has been rejected in a Maharashtra cabinet meeting on Wednesday. The proposal was made by the state education department but the cabinet was not convinced about its feasibility.

  • DoE officials to devise mechanism for safety of mid-day meal
    27th November 2009
    Praveen Singh

    Taking note of the serious discrepancies in the implementation of the mid-day meal scheme, state education minister Arvinder Singh Lovely has directed officials of the Directorate of Education to look into the matter. The minister has also asked the officials to assess the entire system of providing meals in the schools afresh. 

  • Pratibha Patil's feat gives wings to Indian women's dream
    27th November 2009
    Lakshmi Anil

    There is hardly any profession in which women have not excelled. While flying civilian aircraft is not an exclusive male preserve any longer, flying fighter aircraft remained male monopoly so far. This one male bastion too crumbled under the feet of a woman when President Pratibha Patil took upon herself to accomplish the task.
     

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