COMEDK PGET – 2015 Entrance Examination will be conducted on Sunday the First February 2015 (01-02-2015) for admission to Post Graduate Medical and Dental courses in COMEDK Member Institutions. The entrance examination will be conducted in Bangalore city only. Details regarding the entire schedule of examination, information Brochure etc., will be notified in due course. Prospective candidates are required […]
The state government is considering bifurcation of the Bangalore University to reduce its jurisdiction and it has also decided to set up a new university. Minister for higher education R V Deshpande informed this to the Assembly at Suvarna Vidhana Soudha here on Wednesday. Replying to a question from Congress MLA Ramesh Kumar, Deshpande said […]
The schools appealed to the HC, that the state governments conditions on them are ultimately going to affect the fees that students pay sharply. Schools tell HC new government conditions, including one acre land in management’s name, will cost them a bomb; HC extends deadline for applications to December 5 Each middle-budget school student will […]
The Department of Pre-University Education (PUE) has announced the Karnataka II PUC examination time table March 2015, which is tentative. The examination would be held from March 12 to 27, 2014 in two sessions, Morning session from 9 A.M to 12.15 P.M and Afternoon Session 2 P.M to 5.15 P.M. The final time table […]
Reeling under an acute shortage of doctors in medical colleges and government hospitals, the state government has requested the Medical Council of India to increase the number of seats in private medical colleges from the next academic year. Speaking to Bangalore Mirror, Medical Education minister Dr Sharana Prakash Patil said, “We have requested the MCI […]
The Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examinations will begin on March 30, 2015. This is the first batch of students that will take the examination in the new Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) pattern and the year-end examination will have 80 per cent weight-age on the total assessment, and 20 percent on internal assessment. The exams […]
A month away from final placements, IIT Kharagpur students are being flooded with pre-placement offers with a 20 per cent increase this year. IIT officials said already around 125 students have been extended pre-placement offers and interviews, where most of the companies have increased the package offered by around 20 per cent as compared to […]
Taking note of the demand for teachers who know foreign languages, Bangalore University is mulling over the idea of introducing foreign language as a subject. The issue was discussed on Friday at the Academic Council meeting where some senior members expressed the need for introducing a foreign language. The house unanimously agreed, and decided to […]
Researchers have created an open-source 3D-printable electromyographic controlled prosthetic hand that is more than 100 times cheaper than a comparable commercially available device.For most amputees, the road to a more fun recreactional prosthetic device is slow and costly. However, thanks to a student-led research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, that might be […]
A recent Supreme Court verdict  struck down a Karnataka government’s order imposing Kannada language as the medium of instruction in all primary schools, saying it violated the fundamental rights, and now schools have ammunition to fight for English as a medium and not Kannada. Around 5,000 schools across the state have applied for ‘conversion’ from […]