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Oxford University Press Organises Workshop For Teachers

Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 12:53 [IST]

Bangalore: Oxford University Press India (OUPI) on December 6, 2016 organized an interactive English Language Teaching (ELT) workshop for School teachers at The Park in Park Street on Saturday. The workshop was led by OUP author and educationist Nicholas Horsburgh, the ...

NLSIU Bengaluru's Law Student Wins Rhodes Scholarship

Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 15:45 [IST]

Vanshaj Ravi Jain, 22, is one among the five Indian students to have secured the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship for the class of 2017. A final year student at National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru is all set to become ...

Oxford Advantage, an App To Student's Advantage

Monday, November 28, 2016, 11:12 [IST]

Oxford University Press (OUP) on Friday released Oxford Advantage, an application to help school students study better. A department of the University of Oxford, OUP has launched the app as an integrated learning solution, which it said would provide schools with ...

Oxford University Announces Its First MOOC In Economics

Thursday, November 17, 2016, 12:12 [IST]

"Massive Open Online Course" (MOOC) are a huge part of education and they have been gaining popularity with students as well as universities. Catching up with the trend of MOOC, the Oxford University has announced its maiden online course in partnership ...

Valuepoint Academy Partners With Oxford University Press

Valuepoint Academy becomes the First Indian Institution to Partner with Oxford University Press

Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 16:34 [IST]

Bangalore, 2nd November, 2016 - Valuepoint Academy, a premier institution in teaching English Language, Effective Communication Skills and Personality Development has become the first Indian educational institution to sign an agreement with Oxford University Press, to offer a host of educational services, ...

Hindi Online Dictionary Launched As Part Oxford Dictionaries

Hindi Online Dictionary launched as part of Oxford Dictionaries' Global Languages programme

Friday, October 21, 2016, 10:40 [IST]

The Global Languages programme is part of OUP's mission to extend learning and education worldwide New Delhi, Thursday, October 21, 2016: Oxford University Press (OUP) today announced the launch of the Hindi online dictionary, as part of the Oxford Global Languages (OGL) ...

FLAME University Signs MoU with Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Monday, October 10, 2016, 14:42 [IST]

Highlights Investment in social science research that gives a platform to work across economics, sociology, political science and social psychology in addition to their applications in law, management and public policy Unique collaboration that gives opportunity for Oxford scholars to ...

Oxford University Launches New Scholarship For Indian Students

Friday, September 23, 2016, 13:59 [IST]

The prestigious Oxford University has announced a new scholarship scheme for Indian students studying law the institution. The scholarship at the Somerville College is being launched in the memory of Conrnelia Sorabji. Sorabji was the first female Indian student to study ...

Oxford University Now World's Best! Knocks Down Caltech To 2nd Place

Friday, September 23, 2016, 11:19 [IST]

Knocking down the prestigious California Institute of Technology, the Oxford University has emerged at the top as the world's best university according to the Time Higher Education World University Rankings. This for the first any institution from the UK has taken ...

Tribal girl from MP to study in Oxford

Thursday, September 15, 2016, 16:48 [IST]

Asha Gond, a 16-years old tribal girl from Janwaar, Madhya Pradesh, will be traveling to UK to study English language in Oxford school. Only the passport formalities are awaited to be completed soon. Ulrike Reinhard, a German lady, has created a ...

Interesting Facts About Civil Services India

Top 10 interesting facts about Civil Services in India

Friday, August 12, 2016, 16:11 [IST]

1. The Macaulay Committee which gave India its first modern civil service in 1854 recommended that the patronage based system of the East India Company should be replaced by a permanent civil service based on a merit based system through competitive ...

Oxford University Offers Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld Scholarships 2016

Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 16:00 [IST]

University of Oxford invites applications for Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Program 2016 for outstanding postgraduate students from developing and emerging economies throughout Africa, Asia and South America. The Louis Dreyfus Foundation aims to promote sustainable agriculture, food security and self-sufficiency, ...

No Indian Varsity List Top 100 Prestigious University

No Indian varsity in list of top 100 prestigious university

Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 10:09 [IST]

New Delhi, March 10: None of the Indian universities could make it to the list of top 100 most prestigious global universities in the latest 'world reputation ranking' by Times Higher Education. The rankings for 2015 based on invitation-only survey ...

Oxford Overtakes Cambridge As Uk Best Research University

Oxford overtakes Cambridge as UK's best research university

Friday, December 19, 2014, 09:41 [IST]

London, Dec 19: Oxford University has nudged past its traditional rival Cambridge by being named Britain's best research university. The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), to be released, is used as a basis for government funding allocation and has had an ...