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NEW DELHI, India — Parliament is considering an education bill that would allow foreign universities to legally set up shop in India. But, ironically, many say requirements included in the bill may actually deter institutions from doing so.

MILPITAS, Calif. – Pratham, India’s largest child literacy organization, has launched a new initiative with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to look at the role of Indian mothers in their children’s education.

Pratham, together with MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab – known as JPAL — launched the project in July to research how a mother’s own literacy, education and home environment can impact her children’s learning.

Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), a world leader in radiotherapy equipment and software, has established its first education center in India to train medical physicists and technologists working on the company's advanced cancer treatment systems.

JOINT-CEO of Wipro, Suresh Vaswani, 50, has grown his career from ground up at India’s third-largest software exporter. Mr Vaswani, who joined Wipro through an IIM-A campus placement some 25 years ago, was chosen by Azim Premji as his personal assistant in 1991. After two years in that role, he went on to lead the company’s computer hardware business. In an exclusive interview with ET, Mr Vaswani said Wipro still encourages professionals to take up entrepreneurial roles within the organisation. He talks about Wipro’s acquisition strategy, the war for talent, and the joint CEO model.

Kolkata: Edify Education is planning to start seven schools in West Bengal and India’s North East region.

Aiming to provide ‘international’ education, the company is assessing locations like Kolkata, Guwahati, Siliguri, Burdwan, Durgapur, Asansol and Kharagpur in Eastern region of India to set-up schools on franchisee model.

Exploring franchising options in the region, Edify Education has already established two ‘Edify Kids’ schools at Salt Lake and Nagerbazar in Kolkata for academic year 2010-11.

NEW DELHI: The syllabus for the three-year course for rural medical practitioners is ready. It promises to do away with what's "unnecessary" in the four-and-a-half-year MBBS course and prepare "hands-on" doctors at the primary level.

The course, called the Bachelor of Rural Health Care (BRHC), is expected to change the landscape of medical education and delivery of health care and hopefully, solve the shortage of doctors in rural areas, home to 70% of India's population.

New Delhi: A month before the Commonwealth Games, the capital seems to be facing a losing battle against dengue, with the total number of cases standing at 6279.
The dengue scare has spread so much that sources told CNN-IBN that the family members of the athletes are unwilling to come to Delhi.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that missions abroad have been writing to the health ministry saying that not just foreign tourists, the families of most international athletes are not willing to come to India.

MUMBAI: With the state government planning to introduce accreditation system for health care service providers, it will soon be mandatory for all hospitals, clinics and general practitioners to reveal details of the facilities they have.

The sometimes uncanny ability of many Indian students, both at home and overseas, to excel in mathematics, science, literature and geography has won the admiration of many in the western world.

Robert Compton, an American entrepreneur and filmmaker had always assumed that India’s education standards were poor. He was so impressed by students’ superior learning habits on visiting here though that he decided to do the documentary, “2 million minutes” to demonstrate the urgent need for U.S. schools to mimic the teaching techniques of countries like India and China.

Did you know?
Western India has four of India’s Top 10 and nine of the nation’s Top 20 B-schools, according to the second Hindustan Times Best B-schools in India Survey, which was carried out in collaboration with TNS India.

The north is next best; it has two of India’s top 10 and five of

its Top 20 business schools. The south and east each have two institutes in the first category and three in the second.