Education India Kuwait Australia Indian Central School Open Day celebrated Competition for New Indian School Bahrain students Australia to Monitor Unregistered Educational Institutions Operating from India
M.P. Prasanna Kumar - K M corresponden
NEW DELHI - Australia has agreed to look into its unregistered educational institutions operating from India. These institutions run by elements from Australia in connivance with elements in India have been a source of irritant and an hurdle in the way of better educational collaboration between the two sides.
A total of 40 Australian Educational Institutions are reportedly operating in India and out of these only 26 are registered with the Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs of Australia. The remaining 14 are not registered and students who go through them, face problems in Australia and put India also in difficulty, as the degrees given by them are neither recognised by Australia nor by India.
Issues relating to these came up for discussion here yesterday, at delegation level talks headed by the Minister for Human Resource Development and Science & Technology, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi and the Australian Minister for Education, Science and Training, Dr. Brendan Nelson. Dr. Joshi told him that there has to be a joint mechanism to check this as well as a well-oiled system of recruitment. While agreeing to Dr. Joshi's suggestion, the Australian Minister also accepted India's proposal of mutual exchange of students to promote better educational activities. Dr. Nelson also agreed to restore the award of 30 Australian government scholarships to India in post-graduate and Doctoral studies in various disciplines.
The two Ministers later signed an exchange programme on cooperation in education and training. Under the agreement the two sides will strive to develop contacts between educational institutions in the two countries; organise joint research programmes; exchange scholars, teachers, experts and students; set up educational/training institutions of excellence in technical, vocational and higher education, provision of scholarships for education in institutions of higher learning as well as examining the possibility of mutual recognition of educational qualifications.Kuwait Indian School Indian Central School Open Day celebrated
KUWAIT: The Indian Central School (ICS) held an open day celebration for the school community at the Touristic Park Auditorium at Jleeb Al-Shuyouk, on Tuesday. Swash Pawan Singh, Indian ambassador to Kuwait, inaugurated the celebration . The theme for this year's celebration was 'Around the World' to respect ICS students who excelled in different fields. Former ICS students are certified professionals who are performing excellently in their chosen schools in different parts of the globe," said Asha Sharma, principal, ICS.Sharma pointed out that knowledge, character and health were the most important trait of students, which were being moulded and groomed during the school days.During the previous years the ICS produced many toppers in the Gulf region. ICS student Sindhu Abraham secured 100 per cent marks in accountancy in the CBSE examination in India. The school has been at the top in academics, sports and co-curricular activities. It has earned much fame and name within a short span of its establishment
Vijo Theeyatturampil and Rashmi Merin Raju were awarded certificates for securing highest marks in computer science and Information Technology, respectively. Jenny Anne Jose was awarded certificates for toping in biology, Marsha Rebecca D'souza for physics and Pritish Narayan was awarded for securing highest marks in mathematics. Vidya Bhargavan Panicker won awards for securing highest marks in mathematics, English and French. Meera Elizabeth Emmanuel, Blesson Joe Thomas, Riya Anie Cherian, Shikha, Keerti Babu, Venie Varkey Theeyattuparapil and Yeera Neema Krishna won awards for mathematics. Manpreet Kaur, Divya Varughese, Shaima Aruvanpalli won awards for science. ICS was established on Sept 1, 1994 with barely 200 students. Later on, due to the comprehensive teaching methods adopted by the school its strength grew dramatically to more than 2000 by the year 1997. ICS became a member of the Council of CBSE Affiliated Schools in the Gulf in 1995. The ICS is sponsored by the Dar Al-Salam Educational Services. -keralamonitor.com More School News
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An Indonesian delegation headed by Dr. Rosediana Suharto, Expert Staff (Advisor) to the Indonesian Minister for Agriculture will be visiting India next week to explore possibilities of strengthening trade relations between the two countries. Indonesia has been showing keen interest in strengthening trade with India especially in rice wheat and sugar.An Indian delegation had gone to Indonesia to discuss the possibilities of bilateral trade between the two countries in August-September this year. During the discussions, Indonesia has recognised the status of India as the largest exporter of rice while in terms of wheat and sugar, India ranked at fourth and twelfth positions respectively. There was scope for quantum jump in the export of these items particularly wheat if these were covered by a comprehensive counter trade agreement. The Government of Indonesia suggested an increased share in the import of palm oil by India. Regarding sugar export from India it was suggested that some mechanism should be evolved to ensure timely releases as well as a stable price regime for atleast six months.-keralamonitor.com
