http://www.edunews.net/today/ India's FIRST and ONLY dedicated educational news site en-us 2007 National Network of Education Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:40:38 GMT Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:40:38 GMT 20 http://www.edunews.net/United_States/Time_for_education_reform_with_Governor_2879/ The Governor has called for a special session on education reform to enact changes needed to make California eligible and competitive for billions of dollars in federal funding. I am honored to serve as the vice-chair of the Assembly Education Committee, and I look forward to working with the Gove... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:40:37 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Educational_route_to_Australia_2878/ Leading political figures of Australia have been travelling to India to allay fears of 'attacks' on Indians in their country. The Indian media has been describing these attacks on students and workers as 'racist'. What is actually going on? During the past six years, the number of Indian students i... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:39:17 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Pan-African_e-network_for_education_and_health_care_2877/ CHENNAI: Like most ambitious projects, this one too began as an idea, seemingly unachievable. In 2004, when the former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, spoke at the inaugural session of the Pan-African Parliament in Johannesburg, the idea sounded fantastic. He proposed that all 53 nations of the Afric... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:38:08 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_States/Three_Americans_win_Nobel_Prize_for_Medicine_2876/ Stockholm: Nobel Foundation announces winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Medicine. This year three Americans win Nobel Prize in Medicine. Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak jointly share the award for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telome... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:37:07 GMT http://www.edunews.net/Thailand/DEP_pushes_international_education_to_the_next_level_2875/ BANGKOK: The Department of Export Promotion (DEP), Ministry of Commerce, is pushing Thailand to be Asia's hub of international education services by hosting the Thailand International Education Exhibition. "Asia's hub of International Education", is the theme of this year's Thailand International E... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:36:24 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Apex_court's_nod_to_students'_admission_in_Tripura_medical_college_2874/ After a three-month impasse, the Supreme Court has okayed admission of students to a 100-seat medical college in Tripura that was opened as the first case of public-private-partnership (PPP) in health care education, an official said Saturday. Tripura Health Minister Tapan Chakraborty said a divisi... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:35:22 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Renowned_scientists_named_for_Sir_Syed_Ahmad_Khan_award_2873/ ALIGARH - Renowned scientists Obaid Siddiqi and Syed Zahoor Qasim will jointly receive the Sir Syed Ahmad Khan International Award, instituted by the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), for 2009 in the field of life sciences, the university said Saturday. A seven-member jury comprising eminent scienti... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:34:30 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/SSA_assessing_its_impact_on_state_education_in_2009-10_2872/ PANAJI: The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is in the process of assessing its impact in the present academic year in Goa. Launched on October 1, the DISE Fortnight-a nation-wide effort to collect data to access the central government's flagship education program for the academic year 2009-10-will conc... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:33:49 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_States/Foundation_plans_night_to_celebrate_education_2871/ Students who have been awarded a scholarship at Crowder College will join their donors for a night of recognition on Monday. The annual Crowder Foundation scholarship banquet will feature a dinner prepared by the Crowder Agriculture Department and certificates for 167 students. Before they were ... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:32:50 GMT http://www.edunews.net/Philippines/Malay_-_Education_in_general_2870/ If you enrol in Malikhaing Pagsulat 10, a General Education subject, at the end of semester, you are expected to come up with a pasyon about student life, a love story about your mom and dad, and a monologue about an unknown hero. Two of our MP 10, or Ang Hiwaga at Hikayat ng Panulat, classes did g... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:29:08 GMT http://www.edunews.net/China/ChinaEdu_Corp._-_A_Close_Reading_2869/ Shares of ChinaEdu Corp. (CEDU: News ), an educational services provider in China, have registered a decent gain for the year-to-date period -- appreciating nearly 43% and currently trade around $7. At the 2009 ROTH China Conference to be held between October 12 and 14 at the Fontainebleau Miami Bea... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:27:10 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_States/Buzzards_Roost_gets_state_funds_for_education_center_2868/ Buzzards Roost Nature Preserve in Ross County has been selected for funding to support local parks and outdoor recreation statewide. State Rep. Ray Pryor announced that through the NatureWorks Local Parks Project, Buzzards Roost would be receiving $15,380 to develop an educational facility for envi... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:26:10 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_States/UK's_first_'School_of_the_Sea'_launched_in_North_Wales_2867/ The sea has so much to offer children in Wales. It would be a crime not to make it a part of their education", said John Griffiths AM, at the official launch of Britain's first Ysgol y Môr (School of the Sea), at the Plas Menai National Watersports Centre, near Caernarfon. The Welsh Assembly Gover... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:25:18 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_States/AMC_East_Communities_Launches_Andrews_Education_Foundation_2866/ PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY: AMC East Communities, a joint venture between Clark Realty Capital and the Department of the Air Force, announced today its plans to form the Andrews Education Foundation, a non-profit foundation that will support the educational needs ofthe Joint Base Andrews Air Force comm... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:24:30 GMT http://www.edunews.net/China/Premier_gives_top_priority_to_education,_teachers_2865/ BEIJING: If education is the cornerstone for the nation's development, teachers are the cornerstone for education, said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in a speech during a visit to a high school in Beijing on Sept. 4 this year. Xinhua News Agency published the 8,000-character speech, entitled "Te... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:21:59 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/Education_City_project_kicks_off_today_2864/ CHANDIGARH: The much-hyped Education City project of the UT administration would officially get going on Monday with a 'bhoomi pujan' ceremony at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, at its site in Sarangpur, following which construction work would begin. So far, only three of th... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:20:43 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Progressive_education_under_attack_2863/ As leaders of state secondary schools, and therefore presumably fully paid-up members of the "educational establishment" to which Michael Gove referred in his speech to the Conservative party conference (Report, 8 October), we would like to challenge the image of the state education sector he portra... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:19:17 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/West_Bengal_university_vice-chancellor_quits_after_'insult'_2862/ KOLKATA - The vice-chancellor of a university in West Bengal has resigned, complaining of "insulting behaviour" of a section of professors. Ranajit Kumar Samanta, vice-chancellor of the Bidhan Chandra Roy Krishi Vishva Vidyalaya in Nadia district quit after a section of its professors under the umb... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:17:46 GMT http://www.edunews.net/Sri_Lanka/South-Eastern_university_to_undergo_changes_2861/ The educational activities of the South-Eastern University will be changed in keeping with the international educational standards. Modern educational systems and methodologies would be introduced to fulfil this task, said Vice-Chancellor of the University, Dr. S. M. M. Ismail. He was addressing at... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:16:59 GMT http://www.edunews.net/India/IGNOU_signs_pact_with_Papua_New_Guinea_varsity_2860/ NEW DELHI - The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Friday signed an agreement with the Papua New Guinea University of Technology for a number of educational and training programmes. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) envisages development of cultural, educational and scientific ties ... Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:25:40 GMT