Higher Education News

India has witnessed the largest number of adult illiterates in the world with 287 million, according to the Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2013-14, by UNESCO. According to the report, the Indian curriculum is unrealistic and far ...

Usually, for any good university there are greater number of applicants for a course as compared to the number of seats. In such a scenario, the process of bagging a seat is pretty challenging. While there are many factors that play ...

When you have made the big decision to go abroad for higher studies, it becomes vital to know what factors or criteria to consider while choosing a university. After all, the next few years of your life, you ...

The number of South Indian Students who are studying in US is constantly increasing. According to the report, around 15% of South Indian students applied for US VISA applications. The report was revealed by Jennifer A. McIntyre, ...

Edwise, India's Leading Overseas Education Consultants is organising World Education Fair 2014. Prominent institutions from UK, USA, Australia, Singapore, and Dubai will be present under one roof on Thursday 13th February, 2014 at: The Residency, Avinashi Road, CoimbatoreTimings: The ...

Australia's prestigious Griffith University has awarded a fellowship to a Kerala researcher to study the ethno-cultural moorings of the diaspora community from the state, which left the shores of Malabar generations ago. Abbas Panakkal, an educationalist from Kerala's Malappuram ...

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohanrao Bhagwat has criticised the country's education system which he claims has been commercialised and the youth are less concerned about the society. "Education in India has been commercialised for which our children have ...

The Minister Human Resource Department (HRD), New Delhi has introduced a Bridge Course for the Indian Students, who have passed their Master's programme from any of the Universities in UK. HRD Minister, Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju, had participated ...

To boost job opportunities in the hill state, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna has said the state government was giving job oriented education to students and claimed to have outdone the previous BJP government in the field of education. ...

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has said his government would soon urge the Centre to approve projects worth Rs 842 crore under Rashtriya Uchhatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) for the period 2013-17. Presiding over a State Higher Education ...

Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) is a standard test which forms a part of academic selection process in most universities across the globe. This may sound very intimidating to you. The very name GRE makes one say, " You need ...

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, came into force from 1st April 2010. The Act laid down a three year time frame to attain various norms and standards as specified in the Schedule ...

The Reliance Foundation announces scholarships to 393 students, including 111 differently-abled, to pursue undergraduate studies. Instituted in 1996, the Dhirubhai Ambani Scholarship Programme has so far given away study scholarships to 10,000 students, including 2,000 differently-abled students, to ...

The turnaround in the growth of Bihar, one of India's poorest and most populous states, was at the centre of a panel discussion at the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE). A new collection of essays titled "The ...