The rat race for admission in Delhi University is finally going to take off from Monday 1^st, June amid the pressure of large number of high achievers in 12^th examination both in CBSE and ICSE. The application process for admission in the undergraduate courses will continue from 1^st June to15^th June. Though colleges like St. Stephen’s and Jesus & Mary colleges have already started their process of admission. But other colleges of Delhi University will take admission in the under graduate courses through centralized admission system.

  16 admission centres have been made for the applicants to get and submit application forms. These include Arts faculty, Dean of student’s welfare (DSW), Kirorimal College, Deshbandhu College, ARSD college, Gargi college, PGDAV College, Shyam Lal College, Vivekanand College, South Campus, Jakir Husain College, Bharti College, Rajdhani College and Shrdhanand College.

The first cut-off list for admission will be displayed on 25^th June while second cut-off  list will be displayed on 30^th June. For more detail about admission process in DU please visit www.du.ac.in

 Delhi’s Government Schools have improved their performance in CBSE Class Xth result as compared to last year.  Govt. School’s pass percentage has gone up from 83.68% to 89.44% (increase of 5.76%). In comparison the percentage of Private schools have marginally increased from 91.10 last year to 91.67 (increase of 0.57% only). The gap between Private and Government Schools of Delhi in the Class X CBSE 2009 results has narrowed to 2.23% in 2009 from 7.24% in 2008.Delhi government schools against 105538 last year. This year 85098 students from Private schools appeared in boards as compared to figure of 80952 of last year. Out of 1.47 lakh students who appeared in the Secondary Examination in 2009 from Government schools all over the country, more than 1.16 lakh students appeared from Delhi government schools only.Delhi also performed quite better than the Kedriya Vidyalays in Delhi. A student of RPVV, Sham Nath Marg, Vikas scored 96.8% mark to became topper among boys and all over. Ms. Ravneet Kaur from RPVV Gandhi Nagar and Ms. Aini Hasnain, RPVV, Surajmal Vihar scored 95% marks this year.

       The number of students who appeared from Government Schools increased by 10655, in case of aided schools around 95 and in case of public schools 4146. This year 116193 students appeared from

       The girls have again outshone the boys this year with pass percentage of 89.78% as compared to boy’s 88.18%. The over all pass percentage from all regions stood at 88.84% . The students of government schools in

The Education Minister Arvinder Singh said that the City Government is committed to impart quality education to students and inculcate state of the art technology in teaching. The Minister added that number of merit certificate winners in government schools has gone up from 9953 in 2008 to 10648 in 2009.

The new Manmohan Singh government will take forward the Foreign Educational Institutions (FEI) Bill to regulate foreign universities and institutions in the country. The new Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, has said today while taking charge of the office. He also indicated changes in the IITs and IIMs in the near future.

The (FEI) bill is pending in the parliament for the approval. Several educational institutions and Association of Indian Universities (AIU) have been demanding to regulate foreign institutions in the country for the betterment of the educational institutions and Indian educational community.  According to Sibal the ministry is linked to the youth, children and families and it needs to be seen how it can take India forward

Agatha Sangma, the youngest minister of the Manmohan Singh’s council of ministers, loves to walk and have interest in photography, reading and writing. The 29 year old Agatha has been included in the ministry on Thursday. The youngest daughter of former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno A Sangma and MP from Tura Lok Sabha Constituency Agatha has not just done her LLB from Pune but also has done diploma in several fields of law including Cyber Law, Human Rights, Investment & securities law and Corporate Law. She has practiced as a lawyer at Delhi High court too. Apart from LLB she has done her post graduation in Environmental Management. Agatha, who first entered in politics as an MP in the age of 27 year when her father vacated Tura Lok Sabha seat for the state politics. She actually wants to be voice of North-east. According to her the north-east has been neglected for a long time and it needs better representation. She believes that lot of works need to be done in the area and as a minister with rural development portfolio she could better serve people of north-east

Taking an initiative to make school a joyful and better place  Delhi has launched ‘YUVA’ today. 
Delhi Education and Transport Minister Arvinder Singh released a handbook and DVD of 2nd domain of YUVA the School Life Skills
Programme. On the occasion he said that future of our country is in
the hand of adolescents. He said that with the concept like YUVA a
holistic development of the children is now possible. He said that the
programme assists students in developing of coping skills that are
essential components for healthy development in childhood and
adolescence and needed for making a successful transition form
childhood to adulthood.
YUVA (School life Skills Programme) is a initiative which makes
schools a more attractive place and learning joyful, interesting and
meaningful, so that children have a desire to go to school and
continue there. These includes local tours, outstation tours,
caltoonz(animated curriculum), eco-clubs, sports and games, project
raksha, building as learning aid (BaLA), kitabi magic, mental maths,
quizzes, debates, elocution, home science labs in all schools and
provision of LCD projectors in class rooms.
The programme specifically addresses the needs of children growing up in disadvantaged environments who may otherwise lack opportunities to develop important skills for life.
The release function was attended by Secretary Education  Rina
Ray, Secretary MoE  H.P.S Sran, Addition Director (Sports)
Satpal, various stakeholders, Project Director, Chairman Technical
support group YUVA SLP, its team members, teachers and officials of
Govt. of Delhi, Department of Education & SCERT. The Minister
distributed the appreciation certificate to the team members of YUVA
SLP who were instrumental in its development. Arvinder Singh said that the YUVA programme would be sent all over the country in respective Education Departments of the States sothat they can also include it in their schools curriculum