The Orissa government Saturday re-introduced a controversial bill proposing a Rs.150-billion (43.75 billion) university in the state to be promoted by NRI billionaire and chairman of Britain's Vedanta Resources Anil Agarwal.
The Vedanta University Bill was introduced last year but fell through ...

People who are really interested in learning Urdu have now a wonderful opportunity. The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced a certificate programme in Urdu to popularise the language.
 
Launched by Minister of State for Corporate and Minority Affairs, Salman ...

Kapil Sibal, the Union HRD Minister, said that the government has plans for setting up autonomous colleges independent of universities.
 
Addressing a meeting of principal secretaries and secretaries of higher education from various states here, Sibal said: "The government is thinking ...

The Union HRD Minister, Kapil Sibal, on Friday asked all the states to prepare a vision document within the next three months on the targets to be achieved in the higher education sector by 2020.
 
"All state governments must prepare a vision document for higher education. This document ...

According to the Delhi High Court Wednesday, it is the responsibility of schools, to reserve 15% of the seats for the students from economically poor background.
 
A division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan has warned the schools not to admit other ...

Deutsche Welle, Germany's international broadcaster signed an agreement with the Kerala government on Tuesday for the telecasting the educational programmes for school children in the state.
 
Under the agreement, educational television programmes from Deutsche Welle will be beamed on ...

The Rajya Sabha on Monday unanimously passed a legislative measure providing for necessary and compulsory education for children aged between 6 and 14 years.
 
"We are sitting on a great opportunity. We need to grasp it. If we lose it, the consequences will be disastrous," Human ...

Teaching should be a "high paying job" to attract the best possible talent, Bollywood star Aamir Khan declared here Saturday as he, along with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the 140-year-old St. Xavier's College here for an interactive session with its students and ...

Himachal Pradesh moved a step closer to having an anti-ragging law with the state cabinet Saturday approving a draft of the proposed legislation.
"The state cabinet Saturday approved the draft of the Himachal Pradesh Educational Institutions (Prohibition of Ragging) Bill, 2009 that will be ...

D.S. Sengar, who was a professor with IIM-Lucknow, has been appointed as the director of Indian Law Institute by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan fro a period of 5 years. He takes over S. Sivakumar, the officiating director.
 
Sengar has more than 27 years of academic, administrative and ...

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has launched a course in diabetes care to "provide knowledge and skills about management of the disease in relation to diet".
 
The six-month Certificate Programme in Diabetes Care for Community Workers has been developed to build ...

Shashi Tharoor, the Minister of State for External Affairs, on Thursday said that India needs to have more institutions of higher education.
 
"Union Minister Kapil Sibal made a spirited speech defending higher education in the country in the parliament. But we have not yet got to the ...

8 medical colleges including five run by the Madhya Pradesh government will be derecognised by the Medical Council of India (MCI). This information was given by the Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, on Wednesday in the Parliament.
 
Of the eight colleges, six are government medical ...

The Guru Jambeshwar Science and Technology University, Hisar on Wednesday launched a course in defence journalism. The varsity claimed to be the second university in the world after the Boston University in the US to start such a course.
 
The course was inaugurated by the Chief of Army ...

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will chair a five-member jury of the Infosys Science Foundation, set up by IT bellwether Infosys Technologies Ltd, to select winners for its awards in five science disciplines, the company said on Wednesday.
 
"Sen will chair the jury for social sciences. The ...

Even before the Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal had expressed his views, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had plans to make Class 10 board exams optional. This information was given to the parliament on Monday.
 
The National Curriculum Framework (NCF) - ...

Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal says foreign universities like Harvard were welcome in India. He also clarified that the ministry wished to abolish the Class 10 board exams of only the central and not the state boards.
 

"If Stanford, Harvard or MIT want to come here, ...

The HRD Minister Kapil Sibal met the UNESCO director Koichiro Matsuura and discussed the setting up a Mahatma Gandhi institute for peace studies in the country.
 
Sibal who is currently touring France, met Matsuura in Paris and discussed setting up the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Peace ...

Indian government has plans to start an All India Institute of Ayurveda in Delhi as a quality research and referral centre in the traditional Indian system of medicine, said the Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday.
Azad informed the Rajya Sabha that the institute, that will be set up at a ...

The Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA) has announced the setting up of four centres in the UAE and 50 across India to teach research and analytical skills, via videoconferencing. 
The certificate programme provided by MICA will enable one to be absorbed in all research based, data ...

Toonz Academy is the training division of the Toonz Animation Studios operating from the Technopark campus in Thrivananthapuram. 
Under the agreement, the academy will offer certificates endorsed by Anna University to its undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students in animation and ...

IGNOU on Wednesday entered into a deal with the government's Department of Information and Technology for facilitating the e-learning in east India's rural areas and to optimise the use of technology to provide education in the region.
 
The Vice-Chancellor of IGNOU, V.N. Rajashekharan ...

Punjab University is now adopting innovative ways for the admission process so that students and parents can have a hassle free time during the admission process. 


The admission process that has been going on since last week has given the campus a festive look, with a huge rush of young ...

This scheme will be launched by Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday. The colleges will commence their courses from the coming academic session. The students who attend these colleges will acquire associate degrees, so that a lateral entry to the Bachelor's programme ...

With a goal to modify India’s educational system, Union Minister for Human Resources Development, Kapil Sibal, intends to put an end to the malpractices in education. 
As per report, Sibal has agreed to a bill that would fine schools and colleges taking capitation fee, for ...

The union cabinet on Thursday approved the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill which predicts 25% reservation for weaker sections in private schools. 

An official of HRD ministry told that "The bill was approved by the previous government, (and) was put up before ...

The boy-to-girl student ratio in the undergraduate courses at the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) may soon see a positive turn. Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal directed the IITs to admit more female students.

Sibal said that at present the ratio is 10-12% ...

The Left Front-ruled states of West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura will not adopt the educational reforms outlined by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, a senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader said in Agartala on Saturday.

"In the name of educational reforms, the ...

Recommendations have been put forward by a high level panel for the upgrading of about 1500 colleges which possess rich history as well as strong infrastructure to universities.  
 
The committee which is headed by professor Yashpal called the "Renovation and Rejuvenation of ...

The new Institute of Technology (IIT) in this Bihar city will start its doctoral programmes from next month. This information has been obtained from the official spokesperson of IIT, Patna.
 
According to the IIT official Subhash Pandey, "IIT-Patna will become the first among the eight ...