Booster prescription for technical education

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While foreign observers of the Indian economy tend to be staggered by the sheer numbers of qualified personnel pouring out of the nation's institutes and colleges of technical education, indigenous monitors of the economy tend to be less bedazzled. Dr. R. Natarajan, chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education has written an ambitious upgradation blueprint

Swelling support for common school system

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With the recently elected United Progressive Alliance government in Delhi giving top billing to education, academics and non-government organisations believe this is a good time to press for a common school system recommended 40 years ago by the Kothari Commission

Stars augur well for astrologers

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The formal teaching-learning of astrology recently received a boost with the UGC approving the conduction of certificate diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph D study programmes in jyotish vigyan