India’s Human Resources Minister Kapil Sibal began a high-level visit to Britain Wednesday aimed at strengthening ties in the multi-billion pound education sector, officials said.
Sibal will meet three cabinet ministers and discuss the broad range of cooperation between India and Britain under an education forum set up by the two countries.
The visit is set [...]
To curb forgery of educational certificates, the central government Tuesday declared that it will post all educational degrees in an electronic format, just like share certificates, in a common pool online.
‘We are concerned about the fake certificate syndrome and have decided to deposit all educational degrees through dematerialisation of certificates to a technology based solution [...]
After failing to make the cut twice, South Asia’s largest river island – Majuli in Assam – may finally become a World Heritage site in the near future as India again urged the visiting Unesco director general for its recognition.
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, during his meeting with Irina Bokova, advocated the case for [...]
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Monday announced that there would be a vast change in education policy making of the government in 2010.
‘You will see a paradigm shift in education policies. It will be an epochal year,’ he said.
Describing the year 2010 as very important for his ministry, Sibal said that researchers and faculty [...]
State universities are making money by giving affiliation to innumerable colleges, said Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Monday, adding that such varsities need to set up a separate panel to conduct examinations.
‘They are giving affiliation and making money by just conducting examinations for them,’ Sibal said after launching a book on engineering education at [...]
State universities should focus on research and academics and not just function as ‘affiliating agencies’, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Monday said.
‘State universities should stop giving affiliations to colleges. Instead, they must focus on research and other academics that they are not doing properly these days,’ said Sibal at a function in the Observer [...]
Unesco will soon set up the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Peace and Sustainable Development in the national capital, the organisation’s director general said Monday.
‘Our general conference, the highest governing body that includes member states, approved the creation of the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Peace and Sustainability, which I am confident will contribute to shaping more [...]
The universities must make engineering colleges autonomous to boost research in the field, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Monday.
‘The number of students doing research is far below than the national requirement. The universities must free engineering colleges from the affiliation process,’ Sibal said after releasing a book ‘Engineering Education in India’ at the [...]
Indians wishing to study in Britain will be singled out for extra scrutiny by border officials if the Conservative Party forms the next government, a report said Saturday.
These additional controls will also be placed on prospective students from China, Nigeria and Pakistan, The Financial Times said in its report on plans published by the opposition [...]
Computer education at the secondary and senior secondary levels has got a quantum boost with the government Saturday approving its introduction in 108,000 government and government-aided schools, up from the existing 53,000, in a bid to bridge the digital divide.
‘The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today approved a revised scheme of Information and Communication [...]
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday said the Australian government has assured him it would take action against attackers of Indian students, but ‘their actions must match words’.
‘They have spoken to me. They told me that they take this issue seriously. But what we want is that their action must match words,’ Sibal told [...]
After various incidents of suicides by students in Mumbai and Delhi in the past one week, the central government Thursday said it was concerned over the increasing exam pressure on school children.
‘There is huge burden on students. The government is concerned about it,’ Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal told reporters here.
He, however, declined to [...]
Continuing with its educational reforms, the government Thursday said it would make the opening of new engineering and management institution across India a paperless process.
‘We have now ended the inspection raj and have put in place a transparent self-disclosure regime in opening new management and engineering process,’ Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said here.
All [...]
All new management colleges can double their student intake while all engineering colleges can increase their intake by 25 percent, the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry announced Thursday.
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said: ‘All new management institutions can now take 120 students rather than the previous allotment of just 60 students.
‘We have also given permission to [...]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) A group of students from Jamia Millia Islamia will carry out a unique cycle rally from Pushkar in Rajasthan to New Delhi on a mission to ‘join hearts’, or a Dilon Ko Jodo mission.
‘At least 25 of our boys and girls will start a cycle rally from the Temple of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) The Rs.740 crore (Rs.7.4 billion) Indian music industry is cheering the cabinet’s decision to amend the Copyright Act of 1957 that will fetch royalty to composers, singers, lyricists et al.
Under the present act, all the royalty goes to the moviemaker. If the proposed amendment comes through, many others will be [...]
New Delhi, Dec 22(ANI): Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday called on U.K. Business Secretary Lord Mandelson in the national capital and underlined India’s intent to expand education sector without compromising the quality. [...]
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Mainstream schools in the country may soon have to admit autistic children, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Saturday.
”We are trying to bring autistic children within the mainstream schools,” Sibal said at an event attended by President Pratibha Patil.
Sibal said his ministry was making all efforts to put in [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Admitting to resistance to the semester system in universities across the country, the government asserted Friday it was committed to its introduction but shied away from laying down a timeline for this.
‘We want to send out a message that we are committed to implementing the semester system. It is good [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) India and Singapore will cooperate with each other in setting up 14 ‘innovation universities’ in India, Minister of Human Resource and Development Kapil Sibal said Wednesday.
Sibal said India needs 21st century universities to bridge the huge skill shortage and added that Singapore can be the best country to partner with [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Wednesday said the government is open to Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) opening their branches abroad.
‘The government is not opposed to IITs opening their branches outside of India,’ Sibal said here.
The ministry had earlier said that it may not be immediately feasible for [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) It was a year of reform in the field of education. From the laudable Right to Education Act to controversial faculty quota in IITs and IIMs, the education sector remained a headline hogger across India. As the curtains come down on 2009, IANS revisits some of the major events:
Budget [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (ANI): Displeased over thousands of students failing to write the Common Admission Test (CAT) on account of technical problems, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has today called for a meeting of all IIM directors to discuss the issue and express its concerns.
A HRD ministry official disclosed that Higher Education Secretary [...]
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Accreditation is to be made mandatory for all institutes of higher education regardless of whether they get government grants, parliament was informed Friday.
‘The law has been drafted and we are engaged in inter-ministerial discussions. We will soon bring it before the cabinet and hope to introduce it in the budget [...]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Terming Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) position on demolition of the Babri mosque as a ‘national shame’, the Congress said Thursday that the opposition party was taking the country in a wrong direction ‘in the name of Lord Ram’.
‘Don’t make false arguments. You will regret it tomorrow. You are taking the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) The government hopes to end dropouts from schools at the secondary level by 2020, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Wednesday.
Around 50 percent of students drop out of secondary level schools in India. The minister said in the Lok Sabha: ‘We are trying for 100 percent retention in secondary [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Wednesday declined to answer a question in Hindi, saying he never forced MPs to speak in English.
As the minister spoke in English over matters related to education, Samajwadi Party members asked him to reply in Hindi. A furious Sibal said that answering in any [...]
New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) Parliament Monday approved the creation of 15 more central universities with the Rajya Sabha unanimously approving the measure and the government saying the new institutions would set ‘benchmarks of excellence’.
The Lok Sabha had passed the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2009, on Dec 1 and it will now go to President [...]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (ANI): The first computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT) that has been disrupted by virus attacks, has once again upset students with the test extended by a day till December eight.
Prometric, the American firm conducting the test through computers has re-scheduled its entrance tests for admission to IIMs to 11 days [...]
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Wednesday said the government is in talks with Unique Identification Authority chief Nandan Nilekani to map disabled children in the country to record their educational growth.
‘We are talking to Nandan about it. If we can map these differently-abled people, then their educational growth can [...]
