Higher Education News

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 ...

G Viswanathan, chancellor of VIT said that around 80 per cent of students in India, who had cleared class 12 are unable to get any educational assistance to pursue higher studies. While he distributed educational aid of INR ...

INSEAD Business School, France is all set to sponsor aspiring and talented students of developing nations for their further studies. INSEAD has announced MBA Scholarship of €10,000 for the students of developing countries. The announcement came during their ...

Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC) was encouraged to study the possibility of allowing private universities to fund the higher education sector in Kerala, after the 3 day international gathering pertaining to transnational education was concluded. The conference ...

Delhi students' college admission will be made a priority as per Manish Sisodia, education minister, who has resolved to bring about noteworthy changes in Delhi's education system. As per the minister's plan, 90 per cent reservation is meant ...