Higher Education News

Students often face confusion while selecting a proper college in order to pursue engineering. They always look for a well-developed college, which provides excellent infrastructure, placements and faculties. Every year, the National Institutional Ranking Framework under the HRD Ministry ranks institutions ...

New Delhi: Mr. Alon Ushpiz, the Ambassador of Israel to India met Mrs Smriti Irani, Hon'ble Minister of Human Resource Development, on 29th May, 2014 to discuss strengthening of educational relations between India and Israel. Recalling the close ...

Mumbai: The US Consulate General, Mumbai, has opened its doors to over 1,000 Indian students applying for visas to pursue higher education in the United States as part of 'Student Visa Day'. Each year, tens of thousands of ...

New Delhi: HRD Minister Smriti Irani said that the government was mulling increasing the spending on higher education to six per cent of the GDP and will also have a relook at the legislations on higher education which lapsed ...

A new scheme called the Connect India Program (CIP) has been initiated by the UGC to teach US-based students about the rich cultural history of India. For this purpose, the UGS has given grants to five Indian universities. ...

Recent reports by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) prove that there is a shocking decline in the number of Indian and Pakistani students opting to study in the United Kingdom. Over the past few years the numbers have ...

Srinagar: Chancellor of the Central University of Kashmir has said that the higher education opportunities in the Valley and Ladakh region were limited, but the institution was building facilities to increase the avenues as well as start various job-oriented ...

Mumbai: Eyeing the large Indian student community aspiring for admissions in universities across the US and UK, gulf airline Etihad has announced a special programme which allows an additional baggage of 10 kg and other benefits, ahead of the ...

International students attending and/or graduating from secondary schools of education and wishing to study in the US to obtain an undergraduate degree will learn about the specific requirements to apply to colleges and universities in the United States. ...

Bangalore: With the impending results of the longest election in the country's history, from 7th April to 12th May 2014 to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha fast approaching, an unanswered question rings in the minds of the citizens of ...

Mumbai: Stressing that it is necessary to provide skilled manpower to businesses coming to the state, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said vocational courses were required in school and higher education syllabus. The state government has also decided ...

New Delhi: Higher education in India is faced with challenges such as degrading quality and corporatisation that need to be addressed at the earliest, said educationists. "Several paradoxes have gripped higher education in our country. There has been ...

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee attended the thirty-sixth annual convocation of Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad on 10th May 2014, Jharkhand. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that development should touch the lives of ...

Washington: With 1,13,813 Indians studying in America, India is second only to China with 2,90,133 students among more than a million international students enrolled in nearly 9,000 US schools, according to a new report. As of April 1, ...