September 3, 2010 – 8:05 am
Japan’s largest private university Nihon has put up a proposal to the Goa University to take a group of Goan students each year to Tokyo on a one-month programme in a bid to acquaint them with Japanese culture and beyond.
The administrative head of the College of International Relations located at Nihon University, Takashi Okamoto, arrived [...]
August 26, 2010 – 5:44 pm
The wait for around 40 students from Goa seeking admission for 13 innovative engineering degree courses, such as bio-medical engineering and chemical engineering in institutes across the country, has just got longer. The Union ministry of human resource development (HRD) has distributed Goa’s quota of 24 seats in such institutes to students from other states [...]
August 25, 2010 – 2:14 pm
As part of government’s endeavour to upgrade schools run by it, the Chief Minister, Mr. Digambar Kamat on Tuesday laid the foundation stones for the construction of three schools in Sattari.
The Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat seen unveiling the plaque to mark the foundation stone-laying ceremony for the construction of a government school at Bhirondem.
State [...]
There was not much pomp or gaiety when the National Institute of Technology (NIT) “the first such national institute to be set up in Goa” was formally inaugurated on Saturday, but the significance of the event cannot be underestimated. “It is a historic day for Goa. This is the first NIT to be set up [...]
In a bid to up Goa’s literacy rate from 82% (2001 census) to 100% by 2011, the state government will provide grants under a revised scheme for literacy and vocational training for adults. The state will set up literacy and vocational centres where adult illiterates aged 20 years and above will acquire skills of writing, reading, [...]
Goa university (GU) vice-chancellor D Deobagkar said recently that a marine microbial diversity research centre, under government of India’s department of earth sciences, is proposed to be set up at the university. Speaking at a biodiversity awareness programme sponsored by UGC and organized by GU’s botany department, Deobagkar said that the national facility (with a [...]
Goa has been asked to increase its school timings as per the provisions of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 by officials of the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry.
The latter were in the state to conduct a workshop for the southern and western states of India on the [...]
It will be aimed at pushing the 82-84 per cent literacy rate of the state to 100 per cent.
The Goa government has decided to launch an adult education programme intended to take the state, ranked as India’s fourth most literate, to the top of the list.
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said that the State Education [...]
Thirty-six Goan studentsdents made it to the Goa National Institute of Technology (NIT) in the first year of the technology institute’s opening. Fifty per cent of Goa NIT’s 90 seats are reserved for students from Goa, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Lakshwadweep.Of these, 36 Goan students and nine from Daman and Diu, [...]
If you thought the setting up of National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Goa would benefit local students in a big way, hold on.
For, if the Goa Hitrakhan Manch is to be believed, Goa – though allotted an independent NIT – is mysteriously clubbed with Daman and Diu, Lakshwadeep and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. This implies [...]
