Higher Education News

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 ...

Australia has welcomed a sharp increase in the number of Indians applying for student visas to Australia. India remains the second largest source of overseas students in Australia after China. The latest immigration figures show 4,148 Indians made offshore ...

Stress, in general terms, is expressed when we are overloaded with too many things that need to be accomplished and there is too little time to finish them all. If you are not one of those who don't complain ...

Duke University is offering an online course called "History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education". The 6-week-long course will begin from 27th January 2014. About the Course: This course is designed for anyone concerned with the best ...

What would the majority of people do when they have time to spare in today's world? Well, they are busy accessing one of the many social networking technologies available. Clearly, there has to be some reason why they are so popular. ...

An Indian-origin Cambridge University student has challenged a move by British universities to allow "voluntary" gender segregation at Muslim meetings on campuses across the country. Radha Bhatt has demanded in a legal letter that Universities UK (UUK), which ...

New Delhi/Mumbai: 2013 saw a huge number of students opting for Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), when the Common Admission Test (CAT) applicants dropped to a seven-year low. These changes in numbers indicates that changing environment of management ...

The government Thursday approved a proposal to increase the number of MBBS seats in the country by 10,000 by upgrading existing state and central government medical colleges. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the health ministry's proposal related ...

Education is what will determine how fast India joins the ranks of leading nations of the world, President Pranab Mukherjee said here Thursday. "I believe education is the alchemy that can bring India its next golden age," Mukherjee said ...

Funding pattern and quality of education in higher educational institutions were among the issues discussed at the first meeting of the national mission on higher education Wednesday. Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju presided over the meeting of ...

Holding that there were two education systems being run in the country, one for the rich and the other for the poor, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has said that merging the two to provide equal opportunities for all ...