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Vibrant Gujarat Summit: 74 education MoUs signed
The Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2011 will begin on today January 12, but pre-event seminars like the International Round Table of Academic Institutions (IRAI) have already witnessed the signing of 74 Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on Monday.
Officials and academicians of Gujarat-based universities, industries and foreign universities and research institutes discussed and explored various areas of research at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU), Gandhinagar. More »
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AICTE raises merit criteria for engineering & pharmacy
The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) in its approval process handbook 2011-12 released online has said that minimum qualification for admission to engineering and pharmacy colleges will be 50 per cent marks. So if you are a class XII (Science) student , you need to score 50 percnet to to apply in engineering or pharmacy colleges. More »
GCET: GCET to take place in June
- GTU had earlier announced that the exam will take place in Feb
- GCET-2011 will be held in June instead of February as announced earlier.
- The institute heads were of the opinion that the GCET-2011 should be held in June as per the earlier schedule because the colleges had already fixed the schedules for other exams to be held in February
Campus Placement @ Nirma University, Max packageRs 8.4 L
- The placement procedures are also in process at the Institute of Technology in Nirma University.
- Almost 94 per cent of students from B Tech have received an offer while 98 per cent of students from CS, IT, & EC discipline were placed in first week of placements which began on December 4. More »
Campus Placement 2010-11 @ DA-IICT Gandhinagar, Max 8.5 Lac Package Offered
- 93% Student get placed in DA-IICT ( Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology) Gandhinagar
- Majority of students were absorbed in sectors like IT, communication, finance, consulting and VLSI (Very large scale integration).
- Infosys and Accenture are the major recruiters.
- The highest package offered till now is Rs 8.5 lakh per annum offered by DirectI. More »
DAIICT director bags Dewang Mehta Award
Director of Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) Prof S C Sahasrabudhe is the recepient of this year’s Dewang Mehta Award for outstanding contribution to education. More »
Academicians converge at PDPU conference
Educationists, college teachers, principals, deans and vice-chancellors, from various universities across the world gathered at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University campus in Gandhinagar on Thursday. They were participating in a two-day international conference on ‘Themes Of Higher Education: Prospects Of Gujarat.’ More »
Vanche Gujarat: 50 lakh students to read books together on Oct 30
Tomorrow under the ‘Vanche Gujarat’ campaign on October 30, about 50 lakh students from across the state of Gujarat will read books together for one hour, between 9 am and 10 am. More »
School teachers in Gujarat get 20% hike in Salary
School teachers of Gujarat have a reason to rejoice. Following a high court order, the state education department has extended a Diwali gift to teachers — a 20 per cent salary hike. More »
Semester system in PG:GU seeks faculty detail
In order to streamline the semester system to be introduced in MCom, MSc and MA from this academic year, Gujarat University has asked its 150-odd post-graduation (PG) centers to furnish details on academic sessions, teaching staff strength and number of students within 15 days. More »
400 seats likely to increase in MEd colleges in Gujarat
A total of 400 seats in MEd colleges in the state are expected to increase as National Council for Teachers’ Education (NCTE) has ordered an increase of 35 seats in every MEd college from earlier 25 seats.
The development comes as a heart-warming news for those who could not secure admission into MEd colleges during recently concluded admission process, as there will be another round of admission after the increase in seats. More »
Colleges urge GU to conduct FY, SY exams
A World is moving toward centralize process while Gujarat University want decentralize exam system.
A body representing college principals urged the Gujarat University (GU) on Thursday to reconsider its decision of not conducting examinations for first-year and second-year students. The association said that if colleges were allowed to hold exams in FY and SY, then quality of students would decline. More »
Nirma engineering diploma student bags Rs 4.72 lakh package
In what could be seen as a trendsetter, an engineering diploma student of Nirma University has been offered a package of Rs 4.72 lakh by a German firm. The student who bagged the astounding offer is 20-year-old Kashyap Patel, a student of mechanical engineering at the Institute of Diploma Studies. This is definitely good news for diploma holders who are usually offered a maximum salary package of Rs 2.4 lakh per annum.
Rs 300-cr NIPER campus to come up near Gandhinagar
The state capital is all set to house one more educational campus in its periphery. National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) is setting-up Rs 300 crore state-of-the-art project at Palej village. More »
Gujarat tops in placements for seventh year
Gujarat continued to maintain its top position in job placements through employment exchanges in India for the seventh consecutive year in 2009, Gujarat Health Minister Jaynarayan Vyas said here Wednesday. More »
Self-financed colleges hike fees for professional courses
The fee regularity committee has declared the fee hike in self-financed colleges in technical and medical and para-medical professional courses. The admissions begin on Tuesday. The fee at AMC Dental College has been hiked from Rs 2 lakh per annum to Rs 2.24 lakh. The figure for LG Medical College has been kept the same at 3.15 lakh.
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Ahmedabad boy ranks third in country in CA final
Archit Shah is on cloud nine. He has secured third rank nationally in the final exams of Chartered Accountancy (CA). It was Archit’s die-hard attitude that earned him the top slot in the all-India exam conducted in May.
The pass percentage for CA final exams this time is an unusually low 3.45 per cent. In CA final (old course) exams conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), 628 students from the city had appeared in May. Of these, 42 students passed. In CA (final) for new course, 264 students appeared while only nine students cleared the exam.
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8 new medical colleges for Gujarat
Undeterred by the Medical Council of India’s rejection of its proposals for starting three new medical colleges in the current academic year, the Gujarat government has decided to set up eight new medical colleges in the state in the next two years. More »
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Placement fair gets off to top start at DA-IICT
The placement fair at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology (DA-IICT) in Gandhinagar began only 10 days ago, but students are already in a mood to celebrate.
The reason: 25 per cent of students of the batch that will graduate next year have secured jobs. Moreover, this year’s top offer is almost double than last year’s best. In 2009, Rs 7.5 lakh was the highest salary per year offered to students. This time, the figure stands at Rs 14 lakh.
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