Washington, November 13: Researchers at the University of Illinois have found in a study that the educational TV programmes made for children lack both quality and quantity.
Barbara Wilson, a communication professor at the university, said that commercial broadcasters were doing the “bare minimum and not much more” for children’s educational programming.
Presented at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D. C., the study showed that one in eight TV shows labelled by broadcasters as educational/informational programming for children was rated as “highly educational”, and about one in four was rated “minimally educational”.
Washington - The United States issued more visas in 2008 for students and other academic and cultural exchanges than any other year in history, the US State Department said Tuesday.
The 16th of November 2008 is the date for the Common Admission Test, a very challenging entrance examination for any graduate institute. All the prestigious IIM's along with other leading institutes like Kirloskar Institute of Management, Mudra Institute of Communication (MICA) Ahmedabad, Nirma Institute of Management, S.P. Jain Institute, TAPAI and several others, select candidates on the basis of CAT scores. 
The Indian School of Business (ISB) has decided to set up second campus of business school in Mohali. Rs. 300 crore campus would be the first campus in northern region and it is expected to be operational by 2012. ISB's first campus is located in Hyderabad. Punjab government has decided to extend every help for this prestigious education institution. It would lease 70 acre of prime land in Mohali for 99 years at Re 1 per acre annually.
Durham, Britain, Nov. 12, 2008-- Supreme Council member and Ruler of Sharjah, H. H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Tuesday visited here the Durham University, Established in 1832. 
