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Kapil Sibal

Foreign institutions may set up campus or offer courses in India

November 7, 2009 India

New Delhi: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal led a delegation to the US last week and met the functionaries of leading universities for persuading US universities to partner with Indian institutes or set up campuses here.

“It was a successful trip to the US. The American institutions have shown great interest in opening of the education sector [...]

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No Class 10 CBSE exams from 2011, only nine-point grading

September 8, 2009 India

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will scrap its Class 10 Board exams from 2011 and introduce in its place a nine-point grading system, it was announced Monday. The decision drew mixed response from students, child specialists and school administrators.
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal told a news conference:
“There will be no Class 10 [...]

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No Class 10 CBSE exams from 2011, only grading

September 7, 2009 India

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will scrap its Class 10 Board examination from 2011 and introduce in its place a grading system, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Monday.
“There will be no Class 10 board examination from 2011,” Sibal told reporters here. But he clarified that the exams would very much take [...]

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No Class 10 board exams in CBSE from 2011: Sibal

September 7, 2009 India

There would be no Class 10 board exams for Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) affiliated schools from 2011, union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal announced Monday.
Sibal had so far said the Class 10 board exams would be optional. On Monday, he said “students who wish to evaluate themselves (on the board exam [...]

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Mixed response to Class 10 boards being made optional

September 1, 2009 India

There were some hurrahs and some apprehension with the Class 10 board exams being made optional. While some educationists Tuesday gave the thumbs up to the move, others felt it would affect the standard of education in the country.
There was mixed reaction to Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal’s announcement Monday that the Central Board [...]

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Let’s make education a non-political agenda, says Sibal

September 1, 2009 India

The government Monday announced a number of educational reforms ranging from making the Class 10 examination optional to setting up a central madrassa board and an educational tribunal to handle educational malpractices and urged state governments to make education “a non-political agenda”.
“If we can make educational a non-political agenda, we can not only change the [...]

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It’s official, CBSE Class 10 exams become optional

September 1, 2009 India

From the current academic year, the tens of thousands of students studying in Class 10 need not burn the midnight oil or get stressed over the board exams — the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 10 examination has been made optional.
Making this announcement here late Monday evening, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal [...]

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Vice Chancellors will now be named by eminent panel: Sibal

September 1, 2009 India

Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Monday announced that vice-chancellors of universities in the country would be appointed by a collegium headed by an eminent person equivalent to a Nobel laureate, and not the central or state government.
Sibal told reporters here: “The collegium will consist of 30 to 40 people headed by an eminent personality, [...]

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New IIMs won’t dilute brand image: Sibal

August 29, 2009 India

Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Friday that the setting up of new IIMs won’t dilute the brand image of these prestigious business schools.
Speaking to reporters in Bhubaneswar, the minister said that the seven new IIMs won’t affect the existing institutions.
“The new IIMs would be of the same standard. The infrastructure and faculties [...]

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State boards not asked to scrap Class 10 board exams: Sibal

August 29, 2009 India

Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Friday said central school education boards have been asked to adopt a grading system and the states were free to pursue their own curriculum and examination system.
“I never said we will scrap the class 10 board exams in the states. They are free to decide their own [...]

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