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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is likely to announce the results for [Professional Education II] [Professional Competence Examination] : May 2008 today.

Results: CA Exams – PCE – May 2008

Note: Students can register themselves for receiving the result through e-mail on the results page.

St. Stephen’s College has approached Delhi high court alleging that Delhi university (DU) is interfering in its internal matter of appointing full time principle for the college.

Earlier, the court has asked St. Stephen’s College to fill the principals post as soon as possible. DU has recently asked St. Stephen’s college to provide the list of potential candidates that have applied for the job, so that they can decide, who has to be selected for the post. St. Stephen’s alleges that this is direct infringement of their fundamental right of appointing their staff on their own. High court has asked for an explanation from DU by Friday.

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is soon going to set up special study centers in UP madrassas. One such center has already been set up in a madrassa in Jalaun district of the state, informed an IGNOU official.

A special course, Bachelor of Preparatory Programme (BPP) will be introduced in these study centers. Any student completing this course can directly apply for graduation and can pursue his higher education. This scheme will encourage drop outs from madrassas to continue their studies.

The districts where Muslim population is more than 60% have been chosen by IGNOU to set up such special study centers in local madrassas.

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM – L) has invited applications from scholars for admission in the Doctoral Programme (Fellow Programme in Management) – The 10th Batch Commencing in June 2009.

Following areas will be covered under the programme:

Decision Sciences (Operations Research/ Statistics)
Economics
Finance and Accounting
Human Resources Management
Information Technology and Systems
Marketing
Operations Management
Strategic Management

Candidates must possess any of the following qualifications for applying to this programme.

Masters degree or its equivalent in any discipline with min 55% aggregate marks
Bachelors Degree in Engineering with 60% marks or equivalent grade point average
Any professional qualifications such as CA, ICWA and CS with a min 55% aggregate      marks

You can download the detailed admission procedure document from here.

Results for university degree programs have been declared by Alagappa University, Karaikudi.

Results: University Dept./Constituent Colleges
Results: Affiliated Colleges
Results: Distance Education
Results: Distance Education (Overseas)
Results: Distance Education (Revaluation)
Results: Distance Education (Mumbai)

Students must cross check their results with the official gazette of the university.

Today India’s economy is booming and we are seen as a strong economic power in the coming years. Despite this fact, some social issues are still of concern and should be given enough importance if we have to sustain ourselves as a strong socio-economic super power. One such issue is ‘Gender Parity In Primary Education’, which needs immediate attention by state and central governments.

Let’s see some figures* related to gender distribution in primary and secondary education in India.

Primary Schools (Class I-V) -> Parity Index: 0.94 -> 94 girls for every 100 boys
Higher Secondary (Class IX-XII) -> Parity Index: 0.80 -> 80 girls for every 100 boys

*Source: HRD Ministry, Figures of 2005-2006

The above figures gives a clear picture of wide gap between school going girls and boys. The situation is even more worse in selective areas of the country, especially in west,north west and some parts of north India. The drop out rate of girls is most in primary education, as parents prefer to spend more on their son. Early marriage, security issues also play an important role in further aggravating the situation.

The noticeable difference in gender parity index in urban and rural areas clearly indicates that more attention is needed in rural areas, where drop out rate of girls is much higher than urban areas.

Programmes like Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) launched by government in 2004, does help the cause to some extent, but more action is needed to tackle this situation. Some state governements are also offering free bicycles to girls to travel to school, resulting in decreased drop out rate of girls in these areas.

Unless, the whole outlook of society will not change on this issue, it would be very difficult to close the gap of gender parity index.

Results of B. A., B. Sc., and B.Com. Part 1 Examinations 2008 has been declared by the Guwahati University.

Results: B.A. B. Sc. B.Com. Part – 1 Exams 2008

In case you have missed your roll number, you can also search the result records by name.

Results: B.A. B. Sc. B.Com. Part – 1 Exams 2008 (Search By Name)

Students must cross check their results with the official gazette.

To encourage and increase the healthy competition among students, Chandigarh government has gifted laptops to two government school students who have topped in class 12 in their city. Pankaj Kumar and Lakshay Manchanda have been chosen by the government to receive these rewards. One is from urban area and the other student is from rural area, to balance the distribution of the prize among all sections.

It is the first encouraging move of gifting laptops to toppers in India by the state government, and is welcomed by the education fraternity. Pass out percentages of government schools in Chandigarh have always been high ( 85+ percent in both 10th and 12th).