Education News – Newsletter for February 1, 2011

For India’s Muslims, Vastanvi has got it right (Comment)

The controversy surrounding Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi, elected as vice chancellor of Darul Uloom in Deoband, a leading school of Islamic theology with followers across the world, would need to be viewed in the larger context of modernisation of education for India’s 160 million Muslims.

Reforms in education imparted in madrassas is the unique proposition … Read more >>>.

US justifies radio tags, says visa frauds serious

WASHINGTON – The United States has justified the use of radio ankle monitors on some students of a sham university in California, 95 percent of them from India, saying it takes charges of visa fraud “very seriously”.

“We take these allegations of immigration and visa fraud very seriously,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters …. Read the original article  : here.

Court upholds trial for La Marts principal, teachers

KOLKATA – A city court Monday turned down the appeal of the principal and three other teachers of La Martiniere for Boys School for quashing an earlier order for their trial for allegedly abetting the suicide of class VII student Rouvanjit Rawla.

Kolkata Sessions Court Chief Judge Dipak Saha Roy rejected the appeal filed by …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

Sham varsity: US defends radio tagging, says probe on

NEW DELHI – The US Monday defended as “standard procedure” the radio tagging of Indian students, who face the prospect of deportation after the closure of a fake university in San Francisco rendered their immigration dubious, and stressed that it was probing the incident.

A day after External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna strongly …. Source article  : Sham varsity: US defends radio tagging, says probe on.