Higher Education In India News

Budget schools or the erstwhile government or municipal schools, aim to provide affordable education at minimum cost. Those schools, as the players term it, will address the segment at the bottom of the pyramid. So, what is so common between Jerry ...

The former IIT-M director PV Indiresan said; Higher education in India remained underdeveloped because the government had been leaving various regulatory bodies in the hands of 'floating' bureaucrats rather than having committed educationists to run them. Taking part in a debate ...

The State Budget for 2012-13 envisages a push for the higher education sector. The allocation will help the Higher Education department meet its targets for enhancing quality education and adding much-needed infrastructure, says G.Krishnakumar. The government has envisaged three major projects-establishment ...

Engineers with undergraduate degrees will find its easier to seek jobs and opportunities for higher studies abroad from 2013, if India's bid to join elite Washington Accord for international accreditation is accepted. If it comes through, undergraduate engineering degrees from India ...

On the occasion of a function organized by College of Engineering and Technology of Shram Sadhana Bombay trust President Pratibha Patil said that India needed to expand its education and research infrastructure. Speaking at the function she noted that India has ...

SEEDS Education- School of Excellence, Entrepreneurship and Development Studies Education announced their launch of an innovative executive education and leadership program meticulously crafted to nurture and create the budding leaders of Indian Corporate Industry. Speaking about the new venture Mr.Shobhit Goyal, ...

The policy and guidelines for setting up Sanskriti type schools in the country have been framed with a provision of 60% seats for the wards of transferable officers of All India Services. In case the land is provided free of cost ...

India based OP Jindal Global University (JGU) signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with University of St.Thomas based in Mozambique (USTM) to provide international career opportunities to the students. Sources from USTM revealed that this MoU is an initiative towards educational ...

In India, Education sector is one of the largest in the world with 1.3 million schools, 30,000 college and 542 listed universities. The amount of public money in the education sector is USD 40 billion. The private sector money involved in ...

A new touchscreen tablet computer looks to provide Indian schools and colleges with access to global educational resources. The international education company Across World Education has partnered with Delhi-based Go-Tech to transform the learning process by enabling K-12 schools, colleges and ...

Union Rural Development Minister Shri Jairam Ramesh said that AARDO (Afro-Asian Rural Development Organization) is a great forum for the countries in the continents of Africa and Asia to jointly discuss their problems, exchange views, ideas, experiences and information in the ...

RTE – Right To Education is a landmark judgement in the direction of providing basic education to government school children. With such a vast majority of children yet to be educated, what are the bottlenecks that you perceive in the implementation ...

Stating that Educational Institutions should ensure quality of education, University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Prof Ved Prakash today said that every institution must be a place of excellence. He said :Every single institution must be a place of excellence”.Emphasizing that quality ...

The State government has decided to crack down on aided colleges which received grants and property from the government but rented them out for commercial purposes. The Government has issued some directions to the education department to get information of such ...