Prime minister Manmohan Singh has expressed its concerns over the declining number of youth opting for science courses after the 10+2 stage and urged the need to bring them into the fold of exciting and stimulating research environment of colleges and universities.
The Prime Minister was speaking at the foundation laying ceremony of the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research and the diamond jubilee celebrations of the National Chemical Laboratory.
Prime Minister Said that the India will lose the competitive advantage it enjoys in the research and development …

HRD Ministry on Monday told Supreme Court that 44 Universities can lose its Deemed status because they are not meeting up the required standards. Most of these 44 universities are in Tamil Nadu. Out of which one university Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai was founded by Union Minister S. Jagathrakshakan
According to Report, 34 out these 44 universities got the deemed status in the tenure of former education minister Mr.Arjun Singh. These Universities are run by private corporate houses and became one of the profitable business for them. …

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen today said that Government should ban the homework and stop private tuitions.
Amartya Sen said “There should be no rule for homework to complete basic education on the part of school children at their elementary level when they are very young,”
According to Amartya Sen 78 per cent of parents who sent their kids to free primary schools and Sishu Shiksha Kendras in rural Bengal feel private tuitions are unavoidable.
It would be interesting to see what our policy makers think and how kapil sibal  would improve the infrastructure …