Hrd Ministry News

New Delhi, Jan 27: The government has launched the exhaustive exercise for holding consultations aimed at the drafting of a new national education policy and invited suggestions and discussions towards that end. The launch was announced in all dailies across ...

The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani said Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) to offer online courses from 2015. It is a good news new for the candidates aspiring to go for ...

Visakhapatnam, January 19: Union Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani Saturday laid the foundation stone for the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Gambheeram village near this coastal city in Andhra Pradesh. To come up on nearly 400 acres of ...

New Delhi, Jan 12: A row is brewing within Delhi University over its acceptance of a central decision for the transfer of University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS) to Delhi government with its Executive Council (EC) members slamming the move as ...

New Delhi, Jan 7: Taking up a subject of choice and migrating seamlessly from one university to another is set to become a reality from the coming academic session across the country as almost all the states today "unanimously" decided to ...

Lucknow: The Union ministry of human resource development has decided to introduce an integrated three-year B.Ed and a two-year M.Ed programme. These course would be available to students from the next academic session. "The country faces an acute shortage of ...

New Delhi, December 30: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry is planning to work towards establishing a Communications University which would function as an umbrella body that will deal with education in sectors related to media, films and animation. The I&B ...

New Delhi, Dec 19: UGC has asked universities across the country to observe December 25 as 'Good Governance Day' amid the controversy over organising events on the occasion which requires physical presence of students on campus on Christmas. However, in ...

A section of Media has given a distorted impression that schools have been asked to remain open on 25th December, 2014. This is to clarify that CBSE has not directed any school to remain open on 25th December, 2014. All ...

New Delhi, Dec 16: Union Human Resources Development Smriti Irani today laid the foundation of seven government-run schools in the national capital. The school buildings will be constructed at an estimated cost of around Rs 110 crore by the Public ...

To provide encouragement and support to Girl Child to pursue technical education "Pragati Scholarship" has been launched by the Government from the year 2014-15. The salient features of the "Pragati Scholarship" are as under: Number ...

Under the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), it is envisaged to provide 15-20 broadband connections for 512 Kbps speed each to over 25000+ colleges including 2000 polytechnics in the country and 1 Gbps optical fibre connectivity ...

New Delhi, Dec 10: Private sector in education is facing many challenges and these are being addressed by reviewing the functioning of regulatory bodies like University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), government told the Rajya ...

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 ...