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NY wins $696M in federal education grant

August 25th, 2010

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New York won up to $696 million in federal education funding after it made changes in its application despite initial opposition from powerful teachers’ unions, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer confirmed Tuesday.

Schumer told The Associated Press that the win shows that states making “hard choices” will be rewarded by the federal government.

New York missed out on $700 million in the first round, but has since increased the number of charter schools and made other improvements in schools and their governance, changes that the state’s politically influential teachers’ unions initially blocked.

“New York’s schools have made strong strides towards excellence and this grant will accelerate that progress,” said Schumer, who had met with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan on New York’s proposal. “This is great news for parents, teachers, and taxpayers across the state.”

Canadas top management school to woo Indian students

August 23rd, 2010

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Canada’s Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University here plans to offer its world class courses to Indian students and forge tie-ups with Indian universities.

Currently Indian origin students account for about 10 percent of the enrolment at the Ted Rogers School of Management, which is Canada’s largest undergraduate management school and sits right in the heart of the country’s financial hub here.

According to Ken Jones, dean of the school, the university has set up an India strategy group, which also includes prominent Indo-Canadians, to chalk out its plans for India.

“We have an India strategy group and I expect that we will be going to India in the new year with our India strategy in place,” Jones told the sources.

Delhi, Bangalore best places to study: Education Survey 2010

August 20th, 2010

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India’s leading Education and Career Network today released the findings of its study on “Education hot spots in India survey 2010″, and revealed that cities like Bangalore and Delhi have emerged to be the best picks for Indian students when it came to preferred education destinations in India.

Covering popular streams like arts, medicine, engineering and MBA among others, the survey also threw up cities like Mumbai, Chennai and Pune as popular edu- destinations.

Talking about carrying out the first ever study of this nature, Kavita Iyer, CEO and Co-founder Minglebox.com said that while there have been surveys earlier to determine the top colleges across streams, there have not been any that take into account a student’s perception of where they would like to study and for what streams.

Quality Education for Students – Governor ESL Narsimhan

August 18th, 2010

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Governor ESL Narsimhan has emphasised the need for quality education for students in universities.

“Our universities manage to produce a large number of Ph.Ds. But what about the value of these degrees? If we do not fix the problem of quality we will face the prospect of being left behind in a world racing towards a knowledge society?” he said.

He was speaking at the 78th annual convocation of the Osmania University held at the Tagore Auditorium here on Tuesday.

“The great challenge before the universities is to access this knowledge and to mould it in a manner amenable to our societal needs and requirements. If this challenge can be successfully met, India can maintain its intellectual leadership and occupy its rightful place among the comity of nations. I believe that we could together strive to change the things for the better and to make ours a great nation,’’ he said.

Vice-Chancellor of Osmania University T.Tirupati Rao speaking on the occasion focussed on the achievements and initiatives of the university.

EAMCET 2010 Medical Counselling Starts On Sunday

July 29th, 2010

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The first phase of online counselling for general students (open competition) for admissions into MBBS and BDS courses for the academic year 2010 – 2011 commenced on Sunday at four centres – Hyderabad, Vizag, Vijayawada and Tirupathi. 920 MBBS seats and 3 BDS seats were filled up on the first day. Counselling would be held for 3,180 MBBS seats (in 31 medical colleges) and 926 BDS seats (in 17 dental colleges) in the first phase in all. This was disclosed by Dr. NTR Health University Counselling Camp Officer Dr. Shashanka Babu.

A total of 967 candidates registered for counselling, in all four centres put together. 488 candidates registered at JNTUH, 142 at AU, 98 at SVU and 239 at NTRUHS. Counselling will be held on Monday for ranks 1001 to 2500.