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The sale of forms for nursery admission started in the city on Monday, with long queues of parents seen outside most reputed schools. The usual anxiety and confusion prevailed as many parents were either not sure of the timings for the sale of forms or reached the wrong branch of the school. At Springdales School, Pusa Road, parents started queuing up from as early as 7 am. The queue extended past the school gates, and continued till the main road. Parents were also seen outside the school gates after the sale of forms ended on the first day. There was confusion about the availability of forms of school’s Kirti Nagar branch at Pusa Road and parents were seen shuttling between the two branches. After Pusa Road school announced that forms for Kriti Nagar were available only there, parents rushed to make it in time. A little later one such parent returned to Pusa Road as “no forms were available at Kirti Nagar”. The school authorities, however, said there was “some mis-communication” and ...

New Delhi: There is good news for parents with twin children as some schools in Delhi are offering extra points to them for nursery admission 2012. Delhi Public School(DPS), Vasant Kunj is one among them, which is giving 5 points to twins. Other than this, the twins will also be favoured with sibling points. If an elder sibling of the twins is studying in the same school, 25 points will be awarded to them. However, no sibling points will bawarded to the third child. Other criteria which will be taken into consideration are of neighbourhood, first born child, single parent, transfer cases and girl child. There are schools which are also awarding points for cultural integration and diversity. Therefore, children form inter-religion and inter-caste marriages will get extra point. DPS, Dwarka has come out with its point system on Wednesday. The school will award 25 points for neighbourhood, 5 points for single parent, 30 points for sibling, 20 points for alumni and 10 points in transfer ca...

NEW DELHI: The new year has arrived with a challenge for parents of three-year-olds in the city. The nursery admission process for the 2012-13 session is going to start from Monday with most private recognized schools starting the sale and submission of application forms. Most schools are likely to follow the tried-and-tested point system to select children for admission in nursery and KG. However, some schools have also decided to hold a draw of lots even for the general category this time. Parents can either apply online in schools like DPS R K Puram and Bal Bharati at Ganga Ram Hospital Marg or buy forms over the counter. According to the Directorate of Education, buying the school prospectus is not compulsory. "Going by my experience last year, I would suggest that parents reach school early to be ahead in the queue. We had reached a school around 11am on the first day last year only to see an unbelievable rush. Many parents had started lining up since seven to eight in the mo...

Garhwal: The Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna (HNB) University has announced the result of B.A. Third Year (Back Paper) Examination 2011.

KOLKATA: In a move to leverage knowledge expertise, Bharath University recently signed an MOU with Nokia India, to train students in the field of mobile technology. Dr K P Thooyamani, vice-chancellor, Bharath University, signed this momentous MOU. The MOU will go a long way towards orienting and training the students in the practical approaches to mobile technology and will also see industry experts from Nokia sharing their expert knowledge with aspiring students. According to the MOU, Bharath University will incorporate courses based on the present industry standards and requirements as a part of the curriculum. Experts from Nokia and its partner will train students based on the new modules incorporated. Students will be selected for the industrial training based on their interests in the field. The modules are designed for the 3rd year and final year students and will be constantly updated according to the industry developments. This enables the university to churn out employees at p...

MUMBAI: The Indian Institutes of Technology have agreed to a proposal by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to join their OpenCourseWare community. This move will enable MIT students to access classroom content of the IITs online at a click of the mouse. However, this is not the only way by which the IITs are opening their doors to the world; lectures from IIT classrooms will soon be available on Apple's multi-media platform iTunes. YouTube already has a separate channel for IIT courses, which, as of December 2011, had 63.64 lakh viewers. When MIT had first invited the IITs to join the OpenCourseWare community in 2007, the IITs felt their initiatives were too young to join the world of open source learning. But four years on, the IITs feel that they have caught up with the other members of the open source community, who had started making their course material public a long time ago. "We have finally decided to join the Open Education Resource Consortium. This move will...

NEW DELHI: The standing committee on health for the 12th five year Plan has proposed adding 18,000 additional undergraduate medical seats, and nearly 11,000 post-graduate seats between 2012 and 2017. In its report to the Union health ministry, exclusively available with TOI, the panel has recommended for the increase of undergraduate medical seats from 41,569 to 66,000 and PG seats from 20,868 to 31,000. It has proposed setting up of 30 new medical colleges with public financing in states that need them the most. It has recommended setting up of 132 Auxiliary Nursing Midwifery and 137 General Nursing Midwifery schools through public financing with a focus on under-serviced areas and starting paramedical education courses in 149 government medical colleges and paramedical institutions. India produces 30,000 doctors, 18,000 specialists, 30,000 AYUSH doctors, 54,000 nurses, 15,000 ANMs and 36,000 pharmacists annually. "Yet, geographic and rural-urban imbalance exists in training and ...