Education In India News

The central government of India is planning to invite 800 academic experts from around the world to teach in institutes of the country, according to the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) minister Smriti Irani. The new measure is expected to ...

Mumbai: Dismal response to last month's advertisement for the post of professors and associate professors at the government-run Grant Medical College and JJ Group of Hospitals shows that medical education in the state is on the verge of collapse, thanks to ...

Thane, March 4: In addition to the rural areas, the Maharashtra government was planning to set up Ashram schools (residential schools) in the urban areas too, governor CH Vidhyasagar Rao said today. Rao was today on day-long tour ...

New Delhi, March 4: There is a proposal to establish colleges for students with hearing impairment in each of the five zones of the country, the Government informed the Lok Sabha today. This was stated by Minister of State for ...

Private engineering colleges across the country are about 30% short of faculty, but premier national institutes aren't in a better place. The average faculty shortage in IITs is 32%, while it is 31% in IIITs, 22% at IIMs and 25% in ...

The Union Budget 2015 saw mixed reactions for the budget in the Education sector. While higher education, skill development and jobs have received more importance, we feel, basic issues in the educational sector have been neglected or have seen very less ...

New Delhi: Giving a boost to higher learning and with the promise of providing one major central institute in each state, the government on Saturday earmarked Rs 26,855 crore for higher education, an increase of over 13 per cent over last ...

New Delhi, February 26: The government is committed to promoting the use and advancement of technology for the development of the country, said union Minister for Minority Affairs Najma Heptulla. Inaugurating a two-day international education conference on "Learning Technologies in ...

Kochi, February 24: A leading private school in Kerala - The Choice School - has offered free education to the three winners of this year's President's National Bravery Awards from the state. Choice Group chief Jose Thomas made this announcement ...

Kochi, February 20: Thousands of school children across Kerala will be given computer programming kits and trained to write software code under a project designed to create a resource pool of skilled IT professionals and entrepreneurs. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy ...

Itanagar, February 18: Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram today said that post-matric scholarship to the tribal students of Arunachal would be directly transferred to their accounts. "The students should have Aadhar-based bank accounts," he said here during a review ...

New Delhi: The government could propose an ambitious programme of setting up of 'kindergarten to post graduate' institutions in educationally-backward districts of the country. The proposal in under consideration of the HRD Ministry and could be mentioned in the Union ...

Nagpur: In a positive step for the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Nagpur, a team from the ministry for human resources development (MHRD) made site inspections for the proposed institute on Wednesday and gave a positive feedback, indicating that the ...

Mumbai, February 9: Observing that institutions of higher education in Maharashtra are stuck in "mediocrity and complacency", state Governor C Vidyasagar Rao has called for innovative curriculum and participatory teaching. "We have witnessed globalisation in trade and commerce during the ...