Education News

New Delhi, June 12, 2015: The Aam Aadmi party government on Thursday launched a higher education and skill education guarantee scheme to provide a Rs.10 lakh bank loan to students from Delhi. "Under the scheme, regardless of the student's financial condition, ...

Rohtak, June 8, 2015: Haryana will honour activists and organisations playing a significant role in implementation of the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign, an official said here on Sunday. 'Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao' scheme, which seeks to address gender imbalance and discrimination ...

New Delhi, June 8, 2015: Environment Ministry is soon going to start a programme under which children will set up nurseries in urban city schools. "We are formulating a new programme which will start within a month. Children need to understand ...

New Delhi, June 8, 2015: Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia today met former President of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam and discussed plans to revamp the education system in the national capital. Sisodia sought Kalam's views ...

Jammu, June 8, 2015: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today asked universities in the state to start market driven courses to meet the demands of the global job market. Reviewing the functioning of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah ...

Nashik, June 8, 2015: Maharashtra Governor Vidyasagar Rao today inaugurated a new audio-visual centre of the city- based Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU). Speaking on the occasion, he said the facility will prove helpful for students as well as ...

New Delhi, June 8, 2015: To help impart employability skills to youth, a group of Swiss companies plans to set up a centre in Pune that will provide vocational education programmes in various areas of manufacturing sector. The Centre of ...

Shimla, June 5, 2015: The Himachal Pradesh High Court today directed three state-run universities to provide free education to students with more than 40 percent disability and enhance the scholarship for disabled students in schools and colleges. The universities are ...

Chennai, June 5, 2015: A two-day Russian Education Fair is starting this Saturday where several institutions of Russia, including medical and engineering universities, would participate in the 16th edition of the event here. The fair will begin from June 6 ...

Faridabad, June 5, 2015: A group of students from Manav Rachna University have claimed to design a glove style device for blind persons which would guide and inform them about any obstacles in their way. The device, which is also ...

Bhubaneswar, June 4, 2015: The Odisha government has decided to set up a health university to streamline the medical education system as a number of medical institutions were coming up in the state. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced this while ...

Ahmedabad, June 4, 2015: Gujarat has received approval to start two new Government medical colleges with capacity to admit 150 students each. The permission has been granted by Medical Council of India (MCI), the apex body for medical education in ...

New Delhi, June 4, 2015: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh later this week, Dhaka Univ has become the first among the SAARC countries to partner with the South Asian Univ, whose ground-breaking ceremony was performed by External ...

New Delhi, June 4, 2015: The South Asian University (SAU), an educational initiative of the eight SAARC neighbours, has already inked a partnership agreement with Dhaka University, while it is in the process of linking up with the Royal University of ...