A day after announcing that no child below 16 would be allowed to write the SSLC examination, primary and secondary education minister Visveshwara Hegde Kageri clarified that 15-year-old children would also be allowed to write the examination.

Even the officials in Kageri’s department said that it was 15 years, not 16! Students will be have to be at least 15 years when they appear for the SSLC exam.

The state cabinet on Thursday gave its nod for setting up a new university in Davanagere. A sum of Rs 10 crore along with 150 acres of land was approved for the university.

The demand for a separate university was made about 10 years ago, soon after Davanagere became a district. Acharya said all these years, students of Davanagere and Chitradurga district had to go to Kuvempu University to pursue higher education.

The cabinet has decided to introduce a Bill (Azim Premji University Bill) in this regard in the upcoming assembly session. "The university will not only to train teachers, but even administrators and non-teaching staff of the education department," Limbavalli explained.

Flowering plants of IISc: A Field Guide will be released during the centenary celebrations on May 27. It is the result of several decades of work by veteran botanist and professor from the Centre for Ecological Sciences, K. Sankara Rao.

Wooded areas with creepers, climbers and large floral canopies occupy large sections of the grounds, keeping the temperature down even during the hot summer.

“Several experiments in planting a variety of trees have resulted in the IISc campus turning into a mini forest. While primates such as the slender loris are hard to spot even in forests around Bengaluru, a pair of them can be found at the IISc campus. A mini rainforest with 90 per cent of its tree species brought from the Western Ghats was created on the campus two decades ago. Even today you almost feel like you are in the ghats when you walk past this patch of forest on the campus,” says a botanist at the institute.

The minister, in Sringeri to receive President Prathibha Patil, told reporters the present system was not satisfactory as the objective type questions had failed to test students’ learning ability. He sought suggestions from parents, teachers, heads of institutions and experts to improve the system.

Nearly 11,500 students took the examination which will decide admissions into the seven prestigious National Law Schools in Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Jodhpur, Raipur and Gandhinagar and the recently added law colleges in Lucknow, Patiala and Patna.

Dr Bali, who took over the reigns of the highly disturbed and controversial four-year-old Mahila Vishvavidyalaya on January 29, is not perturbed by the gigantic task she has ahead of her. “Offering run-of-the-mill higher education is not the only duty of the Women’s University. It is a specialised university and it certainly has a larger challenge. My priority is to make the North Karnataka women competitive and communicative by equipping them with necessary skills,’’ she said.

"Infrastructure and capital are not the biggest constraints of India, but availability of talent," Infosys board member T V Mohandas Pai said on the sidelines of a conference. Infosys chief mentor N R Narayanamurthy has taken up the reform process in higher education sector to the Prime Minister, who has responded positively, Pai said.

Delivering the Keynote address at a Conference for E-9 Countries on 'ICT for literacy', he said introduction of ICT from Primary Schools would help bring openness, responsiveness and innovation. It could usher in changes in ideas and processes and way of looking at things in the young and was a better than the 'chalk and talk' method of teaching.

Mr Horatti told reporters here that a government order to this effect would be issued shortly. The ban would also cover the teaching faculty.

The long cherished dream of the people of Tumkur will be fulfiled by this, he said addressing a press conference here on Thursday.

Replying to an issue raised by Leader of the Opposition, N Dharam Singh, he said the Government would submit a memorandum in this regard to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Disclosing this to newsmen, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said that Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy would lay foundation stone for the university during First week of August.

Primary and Secondary Education Minister Basavaraj Horatti told newspersons here that Union Human Resources Ministry under the Adolescence Education Programme had sent a set of material for implementation of sex education.

Speaking to reporters he said private medical colleges had put forward a proposal before the government with regard to the fee hike in private medical colleges in view of the hike in teaching faculty‘s payment. The private colleges authority had asked the government to increase the fee from Rs 35,000 to Rs1.35 lakh to bear the loss, he added.

Engineering, medicine and MBA courses may still retain much of their popularity, but City students are increasingly looking beyond them, at the potential of new-age, non-academic disciplines. With almost all the exam results out, it’s that time of year when students explore exciting, unconventional alternatives: from DJing to jewellry/fashion design to coffee-tasting and a whole lot else.

During an interaction with the media, Mr Horatti refused to react to the threat by Kannada Sahitya Parishat President Chandrashekhar Patil to launch an agitation against the government’s decision. “We have decided to introduce English after much deliberation and also based on a survey report. We’ll go ahead with the decision,” he said.

Primary and secondary education minister Basavaraj S Horatti said: "The Centre has to give them permission to run their schools as per the CBSE syllabus. We have just given NoCs. Till they get this permission, they may have to function in Kannada medium itself."

These schools can impart education only in Kannada and not in English. The government derecognised 2,200 schools for imparting education in English, though they had taken permission to have medium of instruction in Kannada.

These schools can impart education only in Kannada and not in English, as they are currently doing in violation of government orders. The government derecognised 2,200 schools for imparting education in English, though they had taken permission to have medium of instruction in Kannada.

The results were up on the net on Thursday evening and will be announced in all colleges on Friday at 4 pm.

The CM, showing concern to the parents' plight at getting their wards admitted to elite colleges due to heavy donations, promised to help them.

Speaking after a meeting with the experts and teachers on the issue, he told reporters here that the government would follow democratic process in implementing the sex education in schools only after going through the pros and cons of sex education as there was a wide spread opposition to it.

Talking to reporters here, he said the Centre was determined to introduce sex education, keeping in mind the growing threat of HIV/AIDS.

In a perfect balancing act, the State Cabinet on Thursday decided in favour of three lakh students of private schools that have violated medium of instruction rules, while penalising the management by imposing fine.

Talking to newsmen here, he said that the Cabinet which met here, decided to impose fine ranging from Rs One Lakh to Rs 25,000 depending upon the area in which the Schools are functioning.

Talking to newsmen here, after a preliminary meeting with Vice Chancellors of various Universities, education experts and other organisations, he said that a Committee would be set up to recommend proposals including financial commitments, if any, to the government soon. Based on the recommendations, another round of meeting would be held before taking a final decision, he added.