Polytechnic faculty teaching in Bihar engineering colleges

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal has agreed to meet a federation of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) teachers, who are protesting the government's rejection of their demand for pay parity with the scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). In reply to the IIT faculty's telegram seeking an appointment with Sibal, the minister had agreed to meet them Friday, a HRD ministry official said.

September 26th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - In the backdrop of the row between the faculty of premier education institutes and the union ministry, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said here Saturday that education is neither about autonomy nor about flexibility, it's about taking the country forward. "Institutions demand more flexibility in their working and more autonomy from us.

September 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hundreds of teachers of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) went on a hunger strike Thursday after the government rejected their demand for a better pay package. M. Thenmozi, head of the IIT faculty federation, said they were on hunger strike as announced on Monday.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sabil Tuesday took a firm stand against the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) faculty's protest on pay and autonomy, and made it clear that government-funded institutes would be regulated and eligibility conditions would be imposed. "Systems, universities, especially when they are funded 100 percent, have to be regulated.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government must not dilute excellence and quality in the name of regulating the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), their faculty shot back Tuesday, hours after Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal asked them to refrain from protests. Don't dilute the structure of the IITs.

September 21st, 2009 KHARAGPUR/NEW DELHI - Over 1,300 teachers of the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) Monday decided to go on a hunger strike Thursday to protest the government's apathy towards their demand for a better pay package. "We will go on a hunger strike and stay hungry on Thursday to protest," M.

September 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly known as Delhi College of Engineering, Thursday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a network of seven French engineering institutions, The Groupe Des Ecoles Des Mines (GEM), to foster collaboration, provide opportunities for global experience and facilitate advancement of knowledge in the field of engineering. The MoU was signed here by DTU Vice Chancellor P.B.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - In order to ensure that engineering seats don't fall vacant after the selection procedure is over, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and other leading engineering colleges have started "informal discussion" for initiating common counselling. The process of allotting students' seats is popularly known as counselling in engineering colleges.

June 26th, 2009 PATNA - The newly set-up Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in this Bihar city will start its doctoral programmes from next month, an official said Friday. "IIT-Patna will become the first among the eight new IITs set up last year to start PhD programmes," institute official Subhash Pandey said.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi University admission process started Monday with over 26,000 forms being sold on day one at 16 information centres spread across the capital. In total 26,052 forms were sold at the 16 centres on the first day, deputy dean of student's welfare Seema Parihar told IANS.

April 14th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Gujarat squandered away central funds meant for primary and higher education on organising festivals and generating publicity, the Congress party said here Tuesday. 'While the BJP government in Gujarat talks about stepmotherly treatment from the central government on the matter of allocation of funds for various development and welfare schemes, the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) regime during the past four years had released Rs.1,715.05 crore for developing infrastructure for primary and higher education compared to a paltry Rs.506.65 crore released by the previous NDA (National Democratic Alliance) government,' Gujarat Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi said in a statement.

March 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The US-India Education Foundation is seeking applications from young Indians, currently teaching English at college level or training to be English teachers, to train them in the US universities. In return, they would be required to teach one of four Indian languages.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The faculty members of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have threatened agitation from March 20 if the government does not soon announce a revised payscale for them, but have also assured that they will not disrupt the academic session. According to members of the faculty of these premium institutions, a general fear is looming large that their payscales may be downgraded along with those for other colleges run by the central government.

March 4th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Teachers of government and non-government colleges in Punjab and the union territory of Chandigarh went on a 72-hour strike Tuesday demanding higher pay. The 72-hour 'Education Bandh' was called by the Punjab Federation of University and College Teachers' Organisation (PFUCTO) in support of their demand for implementation of the new notifications of the University Grants Commission (UGC) on pay scales for faculty.

February 4th, 2009 CHENNAI - The Tamil Nadu government Thursday ordered the reopening from Feb 9 of most colleges that were closed down to prevent the spread of student protests over Sri Lanka's war. 'The presently closed medical, veterinary, engineering and agricultural colleges will reopen from Feb 9 (Monday),' Chief Secretary K.S.