In Focus

HRD minister Kapil Sibal, HRD minister is seriously upset about the botched National Education Tribunal Bill in Rajya Sabha. Mind you, it is not the opposition but his own party colleague Keshav Rao whose spirited show deferred the passing of the bill.

Following directions from the Directorate of Education (DoE), it is expected that soon schools all over Delhi will be undertaking some major facelift in order to make their premises more friendly and comfortable for the disabled students.

Throwing light on the ‘not so encouraging’ condition of Indian higher education scenario, a parliamentary panel has found only 30 percent universities and 10 percent colleges in the country to be of high quality. Rest all, as reported by the panel, are of either ‘low or mediocre standards’.

Kishor Singh, an international law expert of Indian origin has been selected as the Special Rapporteur in the United Nations Right to Education wing. The primary responsibility of the Special Rapporteur is to work in the best interests of the Right to Education and promote awareness at an international level.

Of the 208 football playing nations, affiliated to the Federation Of International Football Associations (popularly known as FIFA), 204 played hundreds of qualifying matches in their respective zones to emerge privileged members of the elite club of 32 finest football teams to vie for supremacy in football playing skills, speed , strength and stamina.

With higher education becoming more and more dear, many students in India are turning towards education loans as the means to meet the high cost of education after schooling. With focus on higher education being more than ever before, the education sector is in great demand. It is expanding like never before, with new institutes of higher education coming up at a very fast pace. Where on one hand investment in the sector is increasing tremendously; so is the cost of obtaining this education.

After coming to power last year, the UPA government had taken up two programmes. One was the right to free and compulsory education, and two, CBSE class X examination optional after it came to power last year. Both issues had direct bearing on the future of the children.

This summer students of both engineering and management are going to have sizzling hot job market as the industry rebounds and both services and manufacturing sectors look up. It is being quite understood that the internship enables students to earn while learn at least for two months. The job opportunities in the automobiles and auto - ancillaries is expected to grow to the tune of nearly 44percent, followed by IT-software services with the absorption capacity of 29 percent. 

The IIT-JEE results this year turned out to be a bag full of surprises; not just for one or two, but many all over the country. The results this year where on one hand are a reflection of sheer hard work; they are on the other also a picture of total dedication and then again a showcase of amazing brain power.

The Class XII results of the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) are out. More than 1,200 students have scored 95 percent marks or above this year. Like previous years, once again girls outshone the boys. They edged past boys for the 12th year in a row, with a record 9.38 percent lead this time. Girls outpaced boys in the merit list too in the results for Delhi, Guwahati and Allahabad regions - 678 girls got 95 percent marks and above against 524 boys.