Education In India News

New Delhi, August 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Friday, August 22, 2014, asked the IITs to use technology for building economical and eco-friendly houses to help fulfill the government's vision of "housing for all". "Contribute towards fulfilling the ...

Bangalore, August 22, 2014: The Avery Dennison Foundation today announced its second "Spirit of Invention" (InvEnt) scholarship awards in a programme held in Bangalore. Of the ten outstanding students from reputed institutes of engineering who won the awards, ...

New Delhi, August 22: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, yesterday said the standards of excellence were improving and becoming tougher in India. Addressing students of Delhi University's Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), Jaitley, who is also the defence ...

Bangalore, August 21, 2014: ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) today announced its partnership with Bangalore's prestigious institute, St Joseph's College of Commerce to offer its globally acknowledged accountancy courses. With this tie-up, the students of the institute ...

The The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has put-forth is a new road-map to improve existing infrastructure of school education in India. The CBSE board plans to publish a manual which states the best practices in schools. It ...

New Delhi, August 20: The UGC will now direct universities offering open distance learning (ODL) outside their territorial jurisdiction to transfer all the students to the state open university in that jurisdiction. However, in the absence of such state ...

Kolkata, August 19: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan held the First Ever "West Bengal State Karate Tournament 2014" with Seigo-Kai Karate Do Association of India. 350 teams from 120 schools all across districts of West Bengal participated. 8 different age groups from 4 ...

Kharagpur, West Bengal, August 19: A sophisticated digitalised 'Hall of Fame' will be set up by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) at a cost of Rs.10 crore to document the evolution of the IIT system and record ...

New Delhi, August 18: In June, Delhi University's four-year undergraduate programme was scrapped and restored to three years after an ugly tussle between DU and the University Grants Commission (UGC). The university regulatory body has also ordered several ...

New Delhi, August 18: Delhi's Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung Friday announced setting up of four new polytechnics to boost education in the national capital. "To provide informal training to girls, SC, STs, OBCs and youth residing in villages ...

Chandigarh, August 14: The Punjab government Wednesday announced that government colleges in the state will have "smart classes" and "finishing schools" to improve the quality of higher education. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal gave approval for setting ...

New Delhi, August 14: The government is preparing a bill which would accord IIMs the status of institutes of national importance, parliament was told Wednesday. "The central government is in the process of preparing a bill under which ...

New Delhi, August 14: India needs to improve its education system, knowledge creation and business sophistication, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said Wednesday. "India is the top-ranking country in communications, computer and information services export. India also ...

New Delhi, August 7: Only 0.02 percent of India's people are researchers, much less compared to China, parliament was told Wednesday. "The percentage of research scholars in China is 0.08 percent of the total population, whereas that in ...