India all set to accept Chinese college degrees
Even as China and India hit another icy patch in their stormy relations, there is great news headed towards thousands of Indian students in China.
They may soon no longer need to worry about the legitimacy of their degrees on returning home. A long-awaited pact between the two countries is on the verge of being signed.
India and China will treat each other’s degrees as equivalent under the agreement, which human resource development minister Kapil Sibal is set to take up with his Chinese counterpart next month, top government sources told HT. Read more
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New UPSC exam tests aptitude, not memory
Setting the stage for civil service aspirants to be tested for their aptitude rather than their memory, the government on Monday announced the outline of the new Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) and changes in the General Studies paper that would require aspirants to be as well versed in environmental studies -say climate change -as social development. Read more
IIT prof runs fake institute on campus?
A professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur is being investigated for allegedly using the IIT campus and brand to run an institute whose diplomas have no legitimacy.
In perhaps the biggest scam to hit the top engineering school, police are looking into complaints from students against aerospace engineering professor Amit Kumar Ghosh for luring them into joining the unrecognised institute, sources said. Read more
CBSE to introduce calendar for Class 10 students
In order to make a better career choices and informed decisions, the Central Board of Secondary Education is all set to put up a calendar and set of questionnaire for its first Students Global Aptitude Index (SGAI) for Class 10 students of CBSE affiliated schools. Read more
Two testing modes for engg, medical entrance
The combined All India engineering and medical entrance examination planned for 2011 may witness an unprecedented combination of computerised and pencil-paper testing options used to test students, under a proposal the government is mulling.
Select students appearing for the joint All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) and the All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) may take the computerised test while the pencil-paper option will be used for others under the plan. Read more
Push for Mandarin in CBSE
In a move that signals a thaw in relations, India has eased a one per cent cap on visas for foreign nationals on a project workforce to revive Chinese investment in infrastructure.
The ceiling was imposed late last year to control the entry of unskilled Chinese labour, leading to the return of several thousand mostly unskilled Chinese workers who had secured business visas instead of employment visas to work on Indian infrastructure projects.
Employment visa applications are still being screened to filter unskilled labour. Read more
Maya plans colleges with 70% SC quota
With an eye on the 2012 assembly polls, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh is starting four engineering colleges with 85 per cent reservation -70 per cent for Scheduled Castes and Tribes and 15 per cent for Other Backward Classes. The remaining 15 per cent will be general category seats.
This surpasses the existing quota pattern in UP of 27 per cent for OBCs and 22 per cent for SC/STs. But the state feels 85 per cent quota is justified as these colleges have been created with funds from the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP). Read more
The new phenomenon called young adult fiction!
Young adult literature in India is surprisingly prolific and publishers are vying to bring out high quality well-written and original new fiction in this segment, feel contemporary writers.
From this year, Vodafone Crossword started awards for the children’s section too and entries are works of children and teenage prose fiction or non-fiction.
According to Shreekumar Varma, whose “The Magic Store of Nu-Cham-Vu” has been shortlisted for the Crossword award (Children’s Award category), writers as well as publishers are taking young adult fiction seriously. Read more
keep eucation out of strikes
A five-day lull in deaths in police firings in Kashmir was shattered on Monday with three persons, including a school student, being killed in Baramulla district.
With this, the number of people killed in police action in 87 days since June 11 rose to 69.
While the police claimed firing took place to quell stone-throwing protesters in Pattan town, 30 km from Srinagar, locals said the firing was unprovoked.