AICTE extends deadline for self-financing colleges in Tamil Nadu The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), in a bid to improve transparency had asked the self-financing colleges to upload details like infrastructure and land facilities, faculty strength, qualifications and biometric data of faculty on the Councils website so that it could extend its approval to the existing colleges.

Annamalai University to Resume Classes From March 17 On Monday i.e. March 8, 2010, Annamalai University announced the resumption of classes from Thursday, March 17. The University was closed last week due to student unrest. As per sources, the University suspended its classes and asked the students to vacate the hostels last week, due to violence after accidental death of four students from Bihar and Jharkhand.

IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) Bags 91 Recruitment Offers Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta (IIM-C), on Sunday i.e. March 9, 2010, the concluding day of the placement session has bagged 91-plus offers over the two days. The slot-zero placement process at IIM-C took place across two days, March 6 & 7. While day one Slot Zero saw some 51 offers, the second day of Slot Zero saw over 40 offers, both, excluding pre-placement offers.

Sharda University Organizes National Conference on Photovoltaics On March 8, 2010, Semi Conducting Society of India and Sharda University jointly organized a National Conference on Photovoltaics, in the Universities premises at Greater Noida. The conference highlighted on bringing academicians, researchers and technocrats on a single platform. Moreover, the main objective was to explore various issues of photovoltaic technologies in terms of profitable exploitation of possible energy products in the near future.

President buries Time Capsule on IIT Kanpur campus President Pratibha Patil recently buried a Time Capsule on the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) campus on the occasion of its golden jubilee celebrations and also unveiled a nanosatellite developed by the institute.The capsule, which is made of a special metal, contains pen-drives, chips, images and several other documents related to the landmark achievements of the IIT-K

ANU PECET (Acharya Nagarjuna University Physical Education Common Entrance Test) 2010 Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU) in Guntur has issued the notification for ANU Physical Education Common Entrance Test 2010, also known as ANU PECET. It is an entrance test conducted for admission intoB P Ed and U G D P Ed courses, offered into the universities and affiliated colleges duly approved by Government of Andhra Pradesh and National Council for Teacher Education, for the academic year 2010-2011.

Max Mueller Bhavan offers German fellowships in cultural management Cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, The South Asian Network of Goethe-Institute, has declared to provide fully funded annual fellowship in Arts Management and Cultural Policy.Starting March 15, 2010, the first edition of A. R. Think South Asia Fellowship that includes a fortnight-long residential course at Manesar has 17 men and women selected from across South Asia.

India aborts test of rocket to launch heavy satellites Indias test of its new Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-Mark III) has had to be aborted after 150 seconds.The 200-second test, conducted at the liquid propulsion systems centre at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu on Friday, was aborted after 150 seconds when a deviation in one of the 500 parameters was noticed, ISRO said in a statement here on Saturday.

IFS (Indian Forest Service) 2009 Result Announced On Friday i.e. March 5, 2010, Union Service Public Commission (UPSC) declared the result of the Indian Forest Service (IFS) Examination held in July 2009. List of successful candidates in order of the merit obtained, contains names of 84 candidates, including 33 belonging to Other Backward Classes (OBCs), 12 to the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and 07 to the Scheduled Tribes (STs). Results are available in UPSC’s official website: http://www.upsc.gov.

India plans to set up Finance Corporation for study loans India plans to set up a National Education Finance Corporation (NEFC) to provide loans for educational infrastructure expansion and re-finance study loans to needy students who otherwise fail to pursue higher education.

Placement season blooms at DTU Consequent upon upgradation of Delhi College of Engineering into Delhi Technological University (DTU), a great number of companies including MNCs and leading world-class research and consultancy organizations have chosen DTU for sourcing quality manpower, through campus placements.Almost 100 organizations have already visited the campus of DTU for placements in the 2009-10 academic session.

DUTA continues to agitate, on strike today The Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) continues its agitation against the implementation of semester system in the undergraduate courses in the university from the upcoming academic session by again going on a strike today.

IIT panels lie dormant to overhauling The Human Resource Development (HRD) minister had in October 2009, formed a series of committees during a meeting of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Council - the highest decision making body, to look into the functioning of various IITs which now lies dormant.It has been reported that various reforms, which were to be inculcated by these committees at the IITs, are on a standstill since its formation.

IIT Rajasthan Shifts to Jai Narain Vyas (JNV) University Campus Indian Institute of Technology, Rajasthan (IIT-R) has been temporarily shifted to the engineering faculty building of Jai Narain Vyas University according to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in Jodhpur. IIT-Rajasthan Founder-Director and JNV University Registrar signed the MoU in the presence of Chief Minister, who was on a visit to Jodhpur, . The CM also inaugurated the work to extend the building. Earlier, students of IIT-R had to rely on IIT-Kanpur and other institutions to attend classes.

Score well in Class 10 for an IIM seat Scoring a decent percentile in CAT and an impressive performance in the group discussion and personal interview may not be all as the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have added another criterion for the candidates to reach till that elite seat.Now, your scores in matriculation, higher secondary and graduation would also be of prime importance as they would also be a factor to add up to your overall selection process.

Engineering Courses in Tamil from next academic year Students who join civil and mechanical engineering courses in four Anna Universities and their 11 constituent colleges the next academic year will have the option of learning their subjects in Tamil.

IGNOU fixes maximum duration of management programmes Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has fixed the maximum duration of management programmes to a maximum duration of eight years.If they fail, they will have to seek fresh admission to complete the left over courses.

100 Students from South India to visit NASA Come April, 100 students from the southern states would head for the United States of America on a nine-day mission. The young brains will get exposed to the science of rocketry, space shuttles and interact with astronauts at NASA.The tour that includes a day out at Walt Disney World in Orlando begins on April 27 from Chennai.