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Chopper scam: MoD gives info to ED

Edit The Times of India 24 May 2016
NEW DELHI ... ED had sought specific details, including "assets" of these officials, from the ministry after identifying them ... The note, believed to have been written sometime in 2008 in Michel's London office, listed designations like 'DCH', 'PDSR', 'DG Maintt', 'FTT', 'DS', 'JS Air', AFA Air' and 'DG Acq', which are important posts in the defence ministry and IAF ... Bookmark or read stories offline - Download the TOI app. RELATED....

PU admission cut-off marks set to go up

Edit The Times of India 24 May 2016
With the top scores in class X exams going up this year, students are facing higher cut-offs marks for admission to PU in city colleges. As a result, even students who have secured distinction marks may find it hard to make it to the first list of many a college ... As the date of announcement of first lists (June 3) nears, colleges are waiting to close application intake and to finalize on a cut-off marks ... Colleges and 2015 cut offs....

College enrollment down nationwide (CAPPS - California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
It seems the great wave of increasing college enrollment has broken, and is rolling back. For years, America's college campuses swelled with more and more students ... By the fall of 2014 - the most recent year government data is available - there were 812,069 fewer students walking around college campuses ... 'Historically, as the economy improves and Americans get back to work, college enrollment declines,' says U.S....

3 Questions to Evaluate the Investment in Your College Education

Edit The Oklahoman 24 May 2016
College costs are going through the roof. The average four-year private college now runs nearly $44,000 a year, including tuition, fees, and room and board ... In terms of your education investment, this is where college selection comes in to play and why it’s one of the most important pieces of your college planning strategy ... The College Navigator site is a great resource to use in assessing this....

High scores set to push up cut-offs in state colleges

Edit The Times of India 24 May 2016
The admissions to premier colleges in Rajasthan are set to get tougher even for those who who scored 90% and above marks in Class XII ... In 2015, over 58,000 students applied on the 27,000 seats in most sought-after Rajasthan University and its affiliated colleges ... At Maharani's College, BCom cut-off touched 92.80% last year in general category, which was higher than many Delhi University colleges....

State med colleges' expansion plans hit MCI roadblock

Edit The Times of India 24 May 2016
Plans of state-run medical colleges to both start speciality medical courses and increase seats in existing postgraduate courses have run into rough weather.The Medical Council of India (MCI) has denied permission to several colleges to go ahead with expansion plans for the academic year 2016-17 citing a woeful lack of infrastructure and manpower at these institutions....

Answerscripts left behind in auto

Edit The Times of India 24 May 2016
In a case of sheer negligence, two staffers of ASC Degree College, Rajajinagar, forgot two bundles of exam answerscripts in an autorickshaw on Monday evening....

Get your brain in gear: Decision time for CAO applicants

Edit The Irish Times 24 May 2016
What should you study at college? Securing a degree at the end of three or four years of study is a major achievement, but you’ll only manage it if you’re determined and focused from day one. Unfortunately, thousands of current Leaving Cert students have applied to the CAO to go to colleges that their friends plan to attend or have applied for courses without doing detailed research first....

Odisha Plus II finally a part of schools

Edit The Times of India 24 May 2016
Twenty-seven years after the government decided to separate Plus II from colleges and make it part of school education in 1989, the state government finally implemented the move on Monday ... For one academic year, existing college teachers of all categories (block grant, aided and government) will continue teaching in Plus II classes ... After one year, all of them will be shifted to degree colleges in similar categories....

Indian-American groups allege discrimination by Yale, 2 others

Edit Deccan Herald 24 May 2016
Indian-American groups - the American Society of Engineers of National Capital Chapter and the Global Organisation of Los Angeles Chapter - have joined over 130 Asian-American groups and got the complaint filed yesterday by Asian-American Coalition for Education (AACE) group against Yale, Brown University and Dartmouth College with the US Departments of Education and Justice....

Tulane's Cowen named to Knight Commission (Tulane University)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
Tulane President Emeritus Scott Cowen, long an advocate for reform in college athletics, has been appointed to the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, an independent watchdog that works to reconnect college sports with the educational mission of American colleges and universities ... Knight Foundation in October 1989 in response to more than a decade of highly visible scandals in college sports....

Refugees and scholars: Colleges offer war-torn a route to US

Edit The Miami Herald 24 May 2016
Colleges in the U.S ... They join a coalition of more than 60 colleges that have started providing scholarships to Syrian students since the country's civil war began in 2011. So far, colleges have awarded scholarships to more than 150 Syrian students ... Among more than 11 million Syrians who have fled their homes, the institute estimates that at least 100,000 are qualified to attend college but have few options to do so....

For 51 yrs, this college doles out Sanskrit gyan free of cost

Edit The Times of India 24 May 2016
In the age of sophisticated and technology-aided education, Sanskrit College- Rameshwar Gahira Guru Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya, operating in remotest area of Chhattisgarh since last 51 years, continues to offer free-of-cost Sanskrit degree course to around 300 students every year ... To transform their lives, the saint established the college, which is affiliated under Ravi Shankar Shukla University since 2001."....
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