Education News – Newsletter for January 2, 2011

Winter holidays for Bihar kids extended

PATNA – Bihar Sunday extended the winter holidays for public and private school children till Jan 9 to save them from the intense cold wave in the state.

“The government has ordered the closure of all schools till Jan 9,” the official said. The schools were earlier scheduled to reopen Monday.
… Read the original article on Gaea Times at : Winter holidays for Bihar kids extended.

HLL Lifecare ties up with IGNOU to offer two courses

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM – State-owned HLL Lifecare Ltd which makes condoms and vaccine and offers consultancy has joined hands with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to offer two clinical engineering and management courses, a statement said Saturday.

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad will formally launch the professional distance education courses … Read more : HLL Lifecare ties up with IGNOU to offer two courses.

‘IGNOU at par with international institutions’

NEW DELHI – The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is at par with other national and international institutions of higher learning, Vice-Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai said Saturday.

Pillai said that IGNOU has established itself as a national resource centre and a provider of quality education through its high-quality self-learning material and innovative programmes.
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