| Volume V, Issue XXXXXIII, March 8, 2011, Weekly eNewsletter |
FEATURED INTERVIEW
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 Telecentre Initiative of IGNOU Empowering Regional Youth through ICT
Prof V N Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), in conversation with Dr Rajeshree Dutta
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FEATURED STORY
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 Fashion Design Courses@IGNOU
Fashion industry is currently employing around 35 million people and has become a potential employment generating sector in India. In the coming future, Indian fashion industry...
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TOP NEWS
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IGNOU launches interactive online portal
IGNOU has launched a state of the art web portal offering services of various types and at different levels to both students and Partner Institutions (PI)...
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K–12
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Armed conflicts rob 28 million kids of education
Calling it a ’hidden crisis‘, a UN report has found that armed conflicts are robbing 28 million children of their right to education while subjecting them to violence. The report, The Hidden Crisis: Armed Conflict and Education...
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Kids of Mirchpur migrants finally admitted to school
Children of Dalit families, who had left Mirchpur village in this Haryana district out of fear of the Jat community and are camping at the district headquarters for the last many days...
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HIGHER EDUCATION
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Modest tuition fee catapults IGNOUs growth
The bulk of the Indira Gandhi National Open University’s (IGNOUs) expansion has come about from internal accruals, notably the modest tuition fee that the University charges ...
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AMU starts Murshidabad campus
The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Sunday started classes from its Murshidabad campus in West Bengal with the first set of students for two–year MBA and five-year law programmes...
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TECHNOLOGY NEWS
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Software Engineering: An International Journal
(SEIJ) launched
The Department of Computer Engineering of Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering) has launched an international journal in Software Engineering ...
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Sibal inaugurates e–certificate for UGC–NET
qualifying candidates
Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal on Thursday inaugurated the ’e–certificate‘ for the University Grants Commission – National Eligibility Test (UGC–NET) qualified candidates...
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DEVELOPMENT NEWS
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Building national character in lab
Peeved at the rising cases of corruption in India, a Pune-based NGO has come up with the idea of a laboratory to help build character in the next generation. Sarhad, an organization working...
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China’s Muslims stress on girls’ education
China’s Muslim Hui community is working against acute poverty and gender discrimination to focus on keeping all girls of school-going age in the classroom. The Hui ethnic minority ...
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Vocational curriculum framework to be in place by May
The Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has said that the country will have its vocational curriculum framework in place by May 2011. The framework will ensure employability...
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