| Govt may allow private sector investment in education | 21-NOV-09 |
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| The Centre plans to allow the (for-profit) private sector to set up educational institutions and tap the capital market, thus aiming to plug the funding gap in the education sector. In this regard, the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry has asked Max India Chairman Analjit Singh to prepare a feasibility paper. |
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| Arihant Capital Markets organises 'Investing and Managing Money' | 19-NOV-09 |
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| Arihant Capital Markets Ltd, one of India’s premier stock broking and wealth management companies, held its unique seminar on “Investing and Managing Money” for investors. The objective of the seminar was to enable investors learn how to make manage money, develop a roadmap for investing wisely, select the right financial advisor and plan wisely for their financial goals. |
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| Victoria govt for new law to cleanse edu industry | 19-NOV-09 |
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| In a bid to cleanse its cash rich overseas education industry, the Victorian government in Australia is pushing for a new law to give more powers to regulators to randomly hold inspections and issue on spot fines to dodgy private institutes operating in the state. |
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| MP supplementary budget passed | 19-NOV-09 |
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| The Madhya Pradesh government today passed Rs 2,300 crore first supplementary budget through voice vote. Of this, the government has earmarked a capital expenditure of Rs 1,700 crore. A lion’s share of the budget will go to power sector, school education, irrigation, panchayat and roads. |
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| US gets $2.75 bn from Indian students | 18-NOV-09 |
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| The economic slowdown notwithstanding, India retained its top spot in 2008-09 for sending the highest number of students to US varsities and colleges. India has been in the top position for the eighth consecutive year. |
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| Aptech Computer Education announces 'Techno Minds' IT contest for students | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Aptech Computer Education-the flagship brand of Aptech Ltd. hosted an inter-centre competition Techno Minds for the students of the premiere career program, ACCP course and the Sun Java, Oracle & Red Hat Linux certification courses. Participants included students from the fist and second year exclusively from the west zone, i.e. Gujarat and Maharashtra. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: A new lesson | 15-NOV-09 |
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| A small rally of barefoot children wearing little dhotis marched through a small village of Kurumbilavu in Thrissur district 70 years ago. They were chanting: Him him pray...him him pray. |
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| Fixing higher education | 15-NOV-09 |
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| The burgeoning demand for graduates as economic growth accelerates has been encouraging Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal to examine more innovative ways of involving the private sector, especially in higher and technical education. This is sensible in as much as the government lacks the financial wherewithal to focus on this sector when the claims from primary education are much more pressing. |
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| Accreditation for quality education | 14-NOV-09 |
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| The National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET) is in advanced stages of discussions with the state governments of Maharashtra, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Tripura to implement the Accreditation Standard for Quality School Governance. Director of NABET(an autonomous body under Quality Council of India), Vipin Sahni, said in Chandigarh that 9 schools had got the accreditation and 50 were in the pipeline across India. He said the accreditation was valid for four years, subject to revision, and there would be consistent monitoring of services provided by the schools over the period. He added that depending upon the strength of the school, an accreditation fee of maximum of Rs 50,000 would be charged from a school. |
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