Women Education News

The University Grants Commission (UGC) invites applications for admissions for Post Doctoral Fellowship 2015. The scholarship is for unemployed women candidates holding Ph.D degree in their respective subject areas with an aim to accelerate the talented instincts of the women ...

Mumbai, January 27: In a rare session of the kind, six top women professionals and entrepreneurs like Nykaa.com founder Falguni Nayar will come together at a City-based management institute to share their success stories with the future managers on January 27. ...

Haryana, January 23: In a determined effort to counter the adverse sex ratio in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday launched the nationwide 'Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao' (save girl child and educate her) campaign from Panipat, in Haryana. The prime ...

Chandigarh, January 20: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi all set to launch 'Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao' programme for the girl child and against female foeticide from Haryana Jan 22, the state education department Monday announced a holiday in all schools on that ...

New Delhi, November 17: With the aim to promote educational opportunities among girl students and address the challenge of lower girl enrollment rates in engineering colleges, the CBSE's Udaan scheme was launched Friday. Udaan aims to provide a platform ...

New Delhi, November 12: India will launch a mega scheme for saving and educating the girl child in 100 districts of the country that have the least child-sex ratio, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said Tuesday. The ...

New Delhi, November 12: The government Tuesday launched two schemes in the area of technical education -- one for differently-abled children and another for women -- on the occasion of National Education Day. The schemes, Pragati and Saksham, to ...

Delhi will soon have the country's first technical university exclusively for women to boost their participation in science and technology. The decision was taken on Monday at a meeting of the Cabinet chaired by chief minister Sheila ...

The girls students, who passed matriculation examination in first division from the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB), will get Rs 10,000 as stipend as the education department has finally released Rs. 63.73 crore to different districts for distribution. ...

Patna, October 17: A government-affiliated madrasa in Bihar Thursday lifted a ban on admission for girls and restriction on their entry on its campus after protests, officials said. Madrasa Azizia Thursday resumed admission for girls, its principal Mohammed Mumtaz ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), has launched Udaan, a project to mentor 1,000 (50% seats earmarked for students from SC/ST/ backward classes) girl students to compete for admission at premier engineering colleges. Free of cost, the ...

Bangalore, October 14, 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM) yesterday announced that it has collaborated with The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) and Catalyst India WRC to launch a cross-industry women's leadership development program, ‘Tanmatra' (means ‘potential' in Sanskrit). ...

Bangalore, October 8, 2014: The Anita Borg Institute (ABI), a non-profit organisation focused on the advancement of women in computer science and engineering, opened student scholarship applications for participation at the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women ...

"The University and Higher Educational Institutions in India should focus on adoption of seven principles of Empowerment of Global Compact Network India (GCNI), which comprise of gender equality, fair treatment to women, health safety & well-being of women, education ...