PPP model being looked at for some Innovation Universities: Sibal

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Monday announced that vice-chancellors of universities in the country would be appointed by a collegium headed by an eminent person equivalent to a Nobel laureate, and not the central or state government. Sibal told reporters here: "The collegium will consist of 30 to 40 people headed by an eminent personality, lets say a Nobel laureate.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Centre has called upon States for support and partnership to ensure educational reforms in the country. Addressing the inaugural session of the 56th Central Advisory Board on Education (CABE) meeting in the national capital on Monday, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal underlined expansion, inclusion and excellence as the three underlying principles for educational reforms.

August 29th, 2009 Koraput (Orissa) - Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday said the Government was planning to set up over 2,500 model and 200 central schools on public-private- partnership (PPP) basis in the country in next two years Inaugurating the much-awaited central university in this tribal-dominated town, which often witnesses Maoist violence, Sibal informed that the proposed model schools would be set up in the backward areas to provide primary education to all as "higher education has no meaning unless primary education was strengthened." "The schools would be set up in PPP as part of our efforts to strengthen the human resource base," Sibal said during the function. Sibal also asked corporate houses to invest in a big way in the education sector.

July 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Friday said the government is considering setting up autonomous colleges independent of universities. Addressing a meeting of principal secretaries and secretaries of higher education from various states here, Sibal said: "The government is thinking in terms of allowing the setting up of autonomous colleges." The minister's day-long interaction with the officials was his first initiative to evolve a consensus of the states for reforms in the education sector.

July 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Friday said the government was considering allowing new autonomous colleges to be set up independent of universities but with stringent quality parameters. Addressing a meeting of principal secretaries and secretaries of higher education from various states here, Sibal said: "The government is thinking in terms of allowing the setting up of autonomous colleges." Elaborating on his idea, Sibal told IANS: "Right now, there is no institution that starts as an autonomous college.

July 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Wednesday made a forceful case for private investments including from foreign universities in education, and said there would be a law to regulate these institutions. Replying to a debate in the Lok Sabha on demands for budgetary grants for his ministry, Sibal delineated his vision for development of the education sector, arguing that "all kinds of new experiments" would have to be made.

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a bid to check the drop out rate in higher education, the Centre would launch Madhyam Shiksha Abhiyan programme as part of the proposed education reforms. "We want to take Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan forward as Madhyam Shiksha Abhiyan as the drop out rate increases in higher education," Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said during Question Hour in the parliament.

July 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal says foreign universities like Harvard were welcome in India. He also clarified that the ministry wished to abolish the Class 10 board exams of only the central and not the state boards.

July 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government is probing the "spurt" in permissions granted for setting up deemed universities and examining whether they are following the norms laid down for them, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said Tuesday. "We have set up a committee.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The boy-girl student ratio in the undergraduate courses at the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) may soon see a positive turn. Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal Wednesday directed the IITs to admit more female students.

June 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI J - Union Human resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said here today that the recommendations given by the Prof Yashpal committee on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher education will be implemented in the first 100 days of the UPA Government. The committee was constituted in February 2008 to study the functioning of different agencies in higher education and to suggest measures to restructure the system.

June 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - HRD Minister Kapil Sibal announced on Monday that the government has decided that it will not accept any further applications of aspiring deemed universities and would conduct a thorough review of the functioning of such universities. "The ministry will set up its own committee, which will visit the deemed universities.

June 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Thursday issued show-cause notices to two institutions in Tamil Nadu after media reports said their officials were seeking Rs.20-40 lakh for admission. The government also put in abeyance all proposals from private institutions seeking the status of "deemed-to-be" universities.

June 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The human resource development (HRD) ministry Thursday issued show-cause notices to two institutions in Tamil Nadu after media reports said their officials were seeking Rs.20-40 lakh for admission. In a decision with far-reaching implications, the government also put in abeyance all proposals from private institutions seeking the status of "deemed-to-be" universities while asking the University Grants Commission (UGC) to review the performance of the existing ones.

April 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party's Chandni Chowk MP Kapil Sibal has accused his BJP rival Vijender Gupta of violating the Model Code of Conduct. Sibal released a CD to the press on Saturday to prove his case.