Higher Education News

The President has said there should not be any confrontation between the environment considerations and development requirements. Inaugurating the National Day Education celebration and Jawaharlal Nehru National Science, Mathematics and Environment Exhibition (JNNSMEE) 2013, at Gangtok, Sikkim, the President Shri ...

Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, on Thursday, emphasised on the need to make education compatible to leverage technological advancements. He stated, "Education must be child centric, and not the curriculum". He feels that if education is made child centric, children can ...

Flagging the issue of India's poor contribution in international scientific research, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked institutions of higher learning to make collective efforts to "improve" the present state of affairs. He also said UPA's nine years of rule ...

The Punjab state Chief Minister, Prakash Singh Badal, on Monday announced free education and health care facilities for the migrant population residing in Punjab. "Migrants from other states will be offered housing facility on easy instalments", Prakash Singh said. ...

It is found that America has been the most popular country among Korean students to study abroad. Though America had high priority for about six decades, those who want to achieve higher degrees like a master's or a doctorate are turning ...

A senior delegation from Punjab Technical University (PTU) and its affiliated colleges are currently on a two week-long visit to the USA and Canada to forge research and educational collaborations between India and North America universities. These collaborations will be ...

Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) is all set to host Najah, the largest education, training and careers exhibition in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), from Tuesday. The seventh annual Najah exhibition, organised under the patronage of UAE's Minister of ...

President Barack Obama who called on education reforms to prepare Americans for a global economy, where jobs can go anywhere said, "Billions of people from countries like India and China are striving hard to out-educate Americans in Mathematics and Technology." ...

Mahendra, 21, lives in one of the countless slums in and around Delhi. His father is a gardener and his mother a housemaid. Though passionate about computers and technology, the young man could only fantasise about becoming a software engineer - ...

China attaches great importance to educational development of the whole nation and lifelong learning, said Vice Premier Liu Yandong here Monday. He made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Learning Cities, organised by the United ...

President Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday that higher education can no longer be continued in a routine fashion. The curriculum should motivate students to take up research and innovation, he added. "Universities need to develop in their students a scientific temper ...

The state government of Maharashtra has appointed new commissioner for education, who is an IAS level officer. He will be heading the education department, under whom all the other eight directorates will be functioning. Keeping in mind the lack of ...

5. What is your opinion about providing free quality education to the needy and deserving learners; as working towards eradication of illiteracy in India? Rajul: I feel today there are many options for needy and deserving learners. Not just ...

1. Being India's first business school(Sunstone Business School) to launch open courses in management, what are your major challenges in terms of reaching out to those unreached groups of students in India, considering the volume of population and the ever growing ...