IIT’s Youngest Professor Is 22!

MUMBAI, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com)- The professors of IITs are mostly in their 40s and 50s and this is common in almost all of the IITs in India. However, the students of the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai’s Powai will be delighted to get very shortly a very young professor who belong to their age …. Original article  : IIT’s Youngest Professor Is 22!.

Minority institutions can’t be forced to implement teachers’ quota: Court

NEW DELHI – The state cannot compel minority institutions to reserve teaching posts for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), the Supreme Court has said.

The court said that the actions of the state in discharge of its “duties, functions and governance” should be “within constitutional framework”.
The provision of law or a … Original article on : Minority institutions can’t be forced to implement teachers’ quota: Court.

Healthy food advocates launch snack attack on school vending machine junk

Snack attack: Schools try to get the junk out

SAN FRANCISCO – It’s not hard to figure out that stocking school vending machines with sugary sodas and salty, fatty snacks is a bad idea. Replacing those culinary culprits with something more nutritious is tougher.
But a growing number of school districts around the country are trying anyway.
“I … Read the original article on Gaea Times at : Healthy food advocates launch snack attack on school vending machine junk.

University of Texas strips name of Klansman, former law professor from dormitory

UT strips Klansman’s name from Austin dorm

AUSTIN, Texas – University of Texas regents agreed Thursday to strip the name of a former law school professor and early organizer of the Ku Klux Klan from a campus dormitory.
The dorm named after William Stewart Simkins will now be known as Creekside Residence Hall. The two-story brick building …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

Jamia to introduce semesters at post-graduate level

NEW DELHI – While concerns are being raised over the introduction of the semester system in Delhi University, the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) university has gone ahead and introduced it in all its post-graduate courses, an official statement said Thursday.

Around 6,000 students are taking admission to 231 courses in Jamia this academic session. The varsity …. Source article  : Jamia to introduce semesters at post-graduate level.

A first in 30 years, Delhi University to miss opening date

NEW DELHI – A 30-year tradition will be broken when Delhi University (DU)does not begin classes July 16. Due to the implementation of semester system, the academic session begins five days later on July 21.

There was nothing specific related to DU opening June 16, but it had become … Read : A first in 30 years, Delhi University to miss opening date.

At Vacation Liberty School, Kentucky kids get civics lessons with a Christian twist

School aims to re-teach civics with focus on faith

GEORGETOWN, Ky. – Call it vacation Bible school, Glenn Beck-style.
Some three dozen kids ages 10 to 15 are spending five nights this week learning what organizers – some with tea party ties – say they won’t hear in school about the Constitution, the founding fathers and the … Original article on : At Vacation Liberty School, Kentucky kids get civics lessons with a Christian twist.