Higher Education News

Though the IIT's have not made it to the top 200 in most of the international university rankings, they remain to be the first choice when it comes to undergraduate education for the children of overseas Indians returning home, particularly IIT ...

Toronto, December 26: Canada needs structural reforms in its immigration policies to attract foreign students and must consider granting them permanent residency rights, a top official of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce has said. "The existing Canadian immigration policies are ...

The Advanced Placement Program (AP), run by the College Board (makers of the SAT) is a rigorous academic program that gives motivated high school students the opportunity to pursue university-level studies, while they are still in school. AP courses and exams ...

UK is considered to have some of the best educational institutions in the world and is the second most favorite educational destination, just after USA. With the new plans from the UK Home Secretary that will force new graduates to ...

As universities from the West to East draw students from India, now Israel is emerging to be another major destination for India students. With a few of its universities ranked among the top 200, it is the latest player in ...

New Delhi, December 11: Parliament Wednesday passed a bill to convert three Schools of Planning and Architecture into centres of excellence and enable them to confer degrees on students. The School of Planning and Architecture Bill, 2014, which has ...

The M.A in Addiction Studies is a formal exploration of addictions from a variety of academic and scientific perspectives: sociological, cultural, psychological, anthropological, and psychoanalytic. The aim is to educate students so that they can carry out research in ...

Addis Ababa, December 10: As the Ethiopian government works towards revitalising higher education to meet growing demand by boosting investment in education under the country's Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP), India, with its long experience in the education sector, could help ...

Nearly 40% slots for foreign students unused for the past three years due to poor diplomacy and lack of coordination between MHRD, Finance and MEA. Out of the 3,465 scholarship slots offered by the union government to foreign students for pursuing ...

New Delhi, December 8: Emphasing on the need to develop skills in higher education, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani Saturday exhorted states and union territories to adopt the credit framework for skills and education and the choice based credit system ...

The European Union Delegation of India had organised a European Higher Education Fair in Bangalore yesterday. The aim of the higher education fair was to promote affordable, quality education being offered in European Universities. The fair saw a ...

Accenture's recent worldwide survey emphasises that the need for digital technology strongly manifests itself among students while choosing an university for higher education. Almost all students spend most of their time of digital platforms, which has become indispensable ...

The Ministry of HRD is implementing the scheme for providing financial assistance to students belonging to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and backward classes to pursue their higher education abroad. Viz Central Scheme to provide interest Subsidy. Under the scheme full ...

VIT Chennai, in association with the U.S. Consulate General, Chennai, recently organised a one-day conference on ‘Internationalisation of Higher Education.' The conference aimed at assessing the need for internationalisation in higher education and defining the quality criteria for excellence in higher ...