CBSE News

Common Management Admission Test All India Council for Technical Education has announced the schedule for the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT)-2012 for admission to the Management Programs in the AICTE approved Management Institutions, for academic year 2012-13. CMAT aims at reducing the burden of students in attending multiple examinations and facilitating institutions to select suitable [...]

Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication Dept. of Film & Video Production Scholarship Programme  2011  Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication (SACAC), New Delhi, announces three scholarships for its full time 16-month course in Film & Video Production. To avail this opportunity, the applicants have to write a story in up to 300 [...]

IGNOU The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has launched a diploma and a certificate programme in Chinese language, an official said Thursday. The diploma course would be offered in both face-to-face and online mode while the certificate programme would be available only through online mode for IGNOU’s July session. “This is for the first [...]

New Engineering Eligibity Engineering colleges in Maharashtra, which were finding it extremely difficult to get candidates for degree courses, have some reason to cheer now. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), an an advisory body in all matters relating to technical education, has relaxed the basic eligibility criteria for admissions to the first [...]

IGNOU Remote Access to E-resources (RATE) The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Saturday introduced a system by which its students can access their lectures and notes online. The system is called Remote Access to E-resources (RATE). It will enable IGNOU students to access their books, journals and other study material from anywhere. Union Minister [...]

TNOU Colleges The Tamil Nadu Open University has given its nod to the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) to start as many as 60 Community Colleges (CC) under the guidance of the University Grant Commission, an IRCS official said today. The CCs would organise weekly compulsory classes for its students on technical courses like Turner, [...]

Institution of Annual National School Sanitation Awards based on “Online National School Sanitation Ratings” The CBSE in collaboration with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MoHRD), Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) and GIZ (formerly known as GTZ) has introduced the ‘National School Sanitation Initiative’ with the aim is to inculcate good sanitation habits among the [...]

Open University Online Courses A plethora of interesting courses are being offered by open universities today. The two top institutions in the city are the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU). Over the years, more and more students are opting for the short term courses offered by these [...]

IIM after Class XII Now, IIM aspirants don’t have to wait to get a bachelor’s degree before taking the entrance test; at least a few can hope to step into India’s top management school right after school. The Indian Institute of Management-Indore has launched a five-year integrated post-graduate programme in management — a three-year degree [...]

National Academic Depository Bill 2011 Expressing concern over the fake certificate racket in Delhi University, HRD minister Kapil Sibal today said the government will table the National Academic Depository Bill 2011 in the coming monsoon session of Parliament to deal with the menace of forged certificates. “I am concerned (on the issue of fake certificate). [...]