Nearly 12 Vice Chancellors from Gujarat will participate in the All India Vice Chancellors’ Conference and 85th annual meeting of the Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi in Pune from Friday to Sunday. The meet has been organised by Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune along with UGC and AIU. Prof Shivajirao Kadam, vice chancellor of Bharati Vidyapeeth University, said more than 400 Read More… »
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» Distance Learning Provides Viable Option for Pospective New Drivers
Distance Learning is arguably the fastest growing segment of education in india. According to the Sloan Consortium, this growing transformation represents about 10% of the overall training and educational market. DriversEd offers potential new drivers access to a high-quality online drivers ed course. Taking staid drivers ed material into a content-rich virtual learning environment with an interactive technology Read More… »
» First glance at CAT 2010
It has been two weeks since CAT 2010 started. Barring two days so far – Thursday, October 28, 2010 and Monday, November 1, 2010 – the test was conducted successfully in all centres. Over 40,000 aspirants have taken the test. With the success of conducting the second computer-based CAT 2011takers, as well as the IIMs and Prometric, are heaving Read More… »
» IGNOU launches Certificate in native Art Practices Programme
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has entered into a dialogue with the Union Ministry of Culture’s four Zonal Cultural Centres – South Zone Cultural Centre, Thanjavur; South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur; North Central Zone Cultural Centre, Allahabad; and East Zone Cultural Centre, Kolkata – for the launch of Certificate in Indigenous Art Practices Read More… »
» Self-finance courses to be crumbed?
The fate of various self-finance courses running in all the state universities hangs in balance. The Chancellor, BL Joshi, on Tuesday, has asked all the V-Cs of the state universities to review the various self-finance courses in their respective universities and affiliated colleges and come to a conclusion as to whether these courses are really Read More… »
» Access and Success in Learning: Global Development Perception
Inviting practitioners, researchers, planners and policy makers to attend the 6th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning, in partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), at Kochi, Kerala, from November 24-28, Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof. P.R. Ramanujam said “IGNOU is hosting PCF6 in India for the first time. The significance of the Forum lies in its theme Read More… »
» Cool CAT has candidates centres comforted
Apart from minor glitches in a few centres, this year’s Common Admission Test (CAT) has been more or less uneventful, with candidates finding the papers not-so-tough. But it may be a little early to call it a successful exam this year as figures show that the number, which was less than 5,000 on Day 1, has only Read More… »
» E-learning to accomplish more DU colleges
Delhi University’s Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL), an initiative to take the processes of teaching and learning beyond classrooms, might have a presence at several more Colleges in India. Speaking to Hindustan Times, vice chancellor Dinesh Singh said, “We need to have smaller ILLLs to reach out to more students and increase the level of interaction between Read More… »
» Meeting detained between New VC of DU and DUTA over semester system
In regard with the implementation of the semester system in 13 undergraduate science courses of Delhi University, a meeting was held between the Delhi University new vice chancellor Dinesh Singh and the seniors of Delhi University Teachers’ Association. In the meeting, the vice chancellor appealed to the teachers to share their expectation for the changes to Read More… »
» For St Xaviers College Obama stay once in a lifetime opportunity
The excitement is palpable. The 130-year-old St Xavier’s College here is waiting with baited breath for US President Barack Obama to address 300 students on its premises on November 7 and can’t help but feel a sense of pride for being the chosen one. Obama’s visit is “a once in a lifetime opportunity”, college principal Father Frazer Mascarenhas told the sources. Read More… »