Higher Education In India News

Mumbai: Even as there are multiple career options, about 80 per cent of Indian students are interested in engineering as they believe that the profession offers high-earning potential and the opportunity to contribute to innovations, according to a report. In countries ...

Outgoing Delhi University, Vice Chancellor, Dinesh Singh, whose reforms in education did not go down well with the varsity teachers as well as HRD Ministry, says his suggestions have been welcomed more abroad. He also said higher education in the country ...

New Delhi: Pursuing higher education a dream too high as the Technical education costs nine times more than general education, says NSSO survey. Student pursuing general eduction spent around Rs 6,788 for an academic session while Rs 62,841 would be spent ...

Bhubaneswar, April 30: Odisha government raised the reservation ratio for students belonging to schedule tribe and scheduled caste in educational institutions to 38.75 per cent from 20 per cent. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approved a proposal in this regard, a ...

Guwahati, April 29: Assam government joined hands with Australia-based Curtin University for setting up of a centre for advancement in education and research in the state with active participation of the varsity. The Department of Higher (Technical) Education of the ...

New Delhi, April 27: Expanding the skills of healthcare professionals in India, the Global Health Alliance (GHA), with support from the University of Leeds launched a new range of short term courses here. Launching the courses, Director GHA, Rajay Narain ...

Mumbai, April 24: Maharashtra Government has decided to link school students' admission registration numbers to Aadhar card in order to effectively implement the Right to Education Act. A campaign to prepare Aadhaar cards for school children will be undertaken from ...

New Delhi, April 23: Powers to derecognise institutes lacking quality should be vested with the National Higher Education Authority, constitution of which was recommended by a HRD panel set up to evaluate UGC's performance. The new statutory agency should have ...

Chandigarh, March 16: Calling for academic institutions to be benchmarked and accredited, President Pranab Mukherjee said universities should gear up to the challenge posed by new models of knowledge dispensation, especially online courses. Addressing the 64th annual convocation of Panjab ...

Himachal Pradesh, March 15: President Pranab Mukherjee said that institutions of higher learning must adopt five villages each, based on the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana. Educational institutions must take greater responsibility for overall development, said the president in a speech ...

Himachal Pradesh, March 16: Himachal Pradesh Governor Kalyan Singh stressed upon the need for intensive research to develop new technologies in agriculture, power, environment and information technology to ensure development. Addressing the students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) ...

Dehradun, March 14: Properly channelising energies of the youth and inspiring them for nation building is the first and foremost responsibility of higher education institutions in the country, Uttarakhand Governor K K Paul said. "In just a few ...

Chennai, March 12: Seeking to end the 'uncertainty' among the students, Tamil Nadu Government today conveyed its conditional 'in-principle' consent to take over two medical colleges of Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), which is exiting medical education from 2015-16. In ...

New Delhi, March 10: None of the Indian universities could make it to the list of top 100 most prestigious global universities in the latest 'world reputation ranking' by Times Higher Education. The rankings for 2015 based on invitation-only survey ...