Mangaluru: The Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar, has declared Dasara holidays to primary and secondary schools of Dakshina Kannada from October 1 to 15 said, Mangalore South MLA Vedavyas Kamath. Speaking on the occasion, MLA Kamath said that the Dasara holiday would commence from October 1 to enable children, parents, teachers and […]

Bengaluru: G T Devegowda who had adhered to his demand for change of ministry from the higher education portfolio he was given, was at last compelled to relent on Thursday June 21. The minister had straightforwardly said that having being qualified only till eighth standard, he was not sufficiently skilled for taking care of the […]

Mangaluru: Just before the arrival of Health Minister U T Khader and Medical Education Minister Dr Sharan Prakash Patil, a fire broke out in the CT scan room of the Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru on Friday around 11. 30. It is said, due to short circuit in air conditioner wiring a fire flame broke out. […]

Mysore : In an attempt to ensure that more teachers work in backward parts of the State, Primary and Secondary Education department would frame guidelines to make it mandatory for them to serve for a period of ten years in such areas. Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education, Kimmane Ratnakar, said such a […]

Belthangady : The state government will waive tution fee for girls studying degree in aided colleges in the state from next academic year, Higher Education minister R V Deshpande said on Thursday. This measure is being taken to improve enrollment of girls in higher education. Talking after inaugurating a new block for post graduate courses […]

Mangalore: DK unit of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) staged a protest in front of DC office in Mangalore  urging the governments to hasten the process of setting up the Tipu Sultan University. Other demands placed forth were to provide scholarship for students of minority community and  to remove  Higher Education Minister RV Deshpande from […]

Bangalore: In 217 centers in state, evaluation of SSLC answer scripts of students began from Monday last, will continue for a week with the active assistance of 47000 school teachers. The results could be out in the first week of May, if all goes well, D. Venkateshaiah, directors of High School education council stated here. […]

Bangalore : Medical Education Minister S A Ramdas on Tuesday said the government would shortly launch ‘Start Yoga, Stop HIV’campaign to promote a healthy lifestyle. Expressing concern over the growing incidence of HIV and diabetes in the state, he said that India had second highest number of HIV patients in the world. Five districts in […]

Bangalore: CBSE syllabus would be introduced in science stream (physics, chemistry, maths, biology) in Pre-University Course (PUC) in Karnataka from the next academic year, Primary and Second Education Minister, Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri, said Tuesday. First year PUC students (11th standard) would have CBSE syllabus from 2012-13 and continue with it next year (12th standard). Those […]