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Tired of being unable to concentrate in a crowded classroom or comprehend what is being taught? Online or e-tuition sites, complete with lucidly illustrated examples and tests, are gaining in popularity with students able to study in the comfort of their ...

The people of the country need to make an extra effort to surmount the contemporary moral challenges, President Pranab Mukherjee has said, stressing the need to focus on education for India to be "truly developed". "Educational institutions have a pivotal ...

 Selected students of the Presidency University here can now head to the Netherlands for an internship, an official said Thursday. As per an agreement signed between University of Groningen, one of the oldest varsities of the Netherlands, and India's premier educational ...

When young Akhilesh Yadav took over as the Uttar Pradesh chief minister in March 2012, there was the natural expectation that his top priority would be education and that state - as distinct from central - institutions of higher learning would ...

Udayana University in Denpasar, Bali has an "India Corner" set up. It is an initiative taken by the ministry in India, Medan and Bali. This is to intensify the collaboration of education institutes with academic community of Indonesia and the students. ...

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) proposes to provide for 5000 faculty positions in the higher education under the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) during the current Five Year Plan, ending 2017. Support will be provided to fill positions ...

Noting that India has been ranked second for United Kingdom in terms of students visiting the country for taking up courses in Universities, British Deputy High Commissioner Bharat Suresh Joshi said "some people produce fake documents and make it harder for ...

Sunstone Business School is the pioneer in Problem-based Learning in India and offers PGPM program to Experienced Working Professionals in India and Internationally. Sunstone Business School (www.sunstone.in) has announced that it has now created the first of its kind revolution ...

The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), Washington has disclosed the reports on the first time enrollment of international students for the academic year 2012-13. The reports revealed that the first time enrollment of international graduate students has increased by 10%. While ...

The HRD Minster Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju asked the industry to participate more vigorously with government in skill development. Speaking at a conference on Government public initiative for skill building in information technology and telecommunication sector in New Delhi, he said ...

The government of Ireland has decided to encourage initiatives taken form the Ireland universities in regard to establishing campuses in India, as said by the minister for jobs of Ireland, Richard Bruton to ET. "The main focus at this moment ...

It is high time for imparting the value and importance of education to the public. During the launch of a book 'Tamizhaga Panpaatu Suzhal' by the Tamilnadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association, N.Sankaraiah said, "The importance of education should ...

278 new universities and 388 colleges have been planned to be created by the Centre, as told by Ashok Thakur, Higher Education Secretary in the HRD Ministry. "We will be creating about 278 new universities and 388 new colleges. Some ...

Although India has given some the most brilliant students to the world, the Indian universities have failed to climb up the list of top-200 survey involving the ranking of universities in the world as systematised by Times Higher Education, Quacquarelli Symonds ...