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Puranika Narayana Bhatta 11:05 PM | November 16,2009
IITs, with active prodding by the HRD ministry, have come to the conclusion that they are not selective enough
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Pallavi Singh and Aparna Kalra 10:06 PM | November 11,2009
Critics say Kapil Sibal’s reform drive is skewed towards higher learning to the detriment of school education
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PTI 01:37 PM | November 11,2009
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the academics and planners to address this problem of deficiency in the quality of teaching in schools, colleges and universities
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Anika Gupta 11:02 AM | November 04,2009
Academic and entrepreneur, Shiva Ayyadurai, has written to the Prime Minister saying he was fired from his job for criticizing the leadership of CSIR
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Off the Record | Srivatsa Krishna 11:35 PM | November 01,2009
IXiGO.com, launched in 2007 and named a Nasscom Top Innovator in 2008, believes it can turn the tables of online distribution back in the airlines’ favour
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Pallavi Singh 09:28 PM | October 20,2009
Bihar’s opposition Lok Janshakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan also hit out at the announcement of tougher eligibility criteria, saying in Patna that it was “anti-poor and will lead to discontent among the students”
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12:43 AM | October 20,2009
The IIT-JEE is one of the more formidable exams faced by Indian students. As a screening device, it enables IITs to get the best students
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Pallavi Singh 09:45 PM | October 19,2009
The aim is to make students study equally hard for their school exams, discourage coaching centres
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Seema Chowdhry 10:14 PM | October 15,2009
Campus romance, four wedding rings, and bridging the Tamil-Punjabi divide
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Kritika Saxena / CNBC-TV18 01:15 AM | October 14,2009
The number of firms that have registered for final placements has also gone down by around 45%
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Off the Record | Srivatsa Krishna 12:13 AM | October 12,2009
India cannot have a 21st century economy run by a 19th century civil service
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Pallavi Singh 01:15 AM | October 08,2009
While faculty disregard salaries to join the institutes, they do look to pay parity with fresh graduates at least
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PTI 03:33 PM | October 02,2009
The IIT teaching staff expressed happiness over its hour-long meeting with Union human resource minister Kapil Sibal to discuss the contentious issues but did not announce an end to their agitation
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10:47 PM | October 01,2009
Mere oratory and research skills (that some of the faculty exhibit as proof of their talent) cannot be a substitute for a hard job in industry
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Pulapre Balakrishnan 10:32 PM | September 29,2009
The privileging of engineering in India is the direct legacy of the plan for rapid industrialization of the country in the 1950s when the IITs were formed
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