With an aim to reform the examination system and "de-traumatise the education", the government is planning to make the Class 10 exams "optional", Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday.
 
"We will reform the examination system and Class 10 ...

The elite technological club has witnessed a drastic change in its composition with IIT Mumbai having the 69 of the top 100 JEE rank holders. Just a decade ago, those who had a chance to get trough IIT Kanpur had been given a demi-god treatment, which is now experienced by those who got into IIT ...

Maharashtra State Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education will announce the result of Maharashtra SSC 2009 exam on June 25, 2009. 

About 1.6 million students have appeared for the for Maharashtra Secondary School Certificate exams in 2009.
 
Maharashtra SSC 2009 ...

Saying the government was committed to improve education standards in India, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said Wednesday a new apex panel on higher education will be formed soon.
The National Commission for Higher Education and Research, which will encompass in itself the ...

Panjab University will offer free education to students suffering from thalassemia from the next academic session, an official said here Tuesday.
"The Panjab University senate has already passed the proposal of free education for children suffering from thalassemia. Now we are working out ...

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, on his maiden visit to Bhutan, announced a new series of scholarships for young students from the Himalayan kingdom to study in prestigious Indian institutions, the external affairs ministry said on Saturday.
Krishna, on his first trip abroad after taking ...

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), is doing its bit in ensuring the students are trained well enough before stepping out into the corporate world in this economic slowdown. The institute is planning to offer courses to prepare the graduates towards jobs in publishing and ...

Be it coping with exam stress, getting career advice or just a pat on the back, students in schools run by the Delhi government have to do it all on their own in the absence of counsellors.

A number of counsellors expressed concern that the prevailing 1 to 9,000 counsellor-student ratio in the ...

Worried about how to get admission for post graduation in Delhi University's south campus? Fear not, as a two-day counselling session which began Tuesday will provide answers to the questions that may be bothering you.

The south campus offers a total of 21 post graduation courses, including ...

The recent racial attacks on Indians down under have made the government to keep a record of students going abroad. The government would introduce a registration system to keep track of the whereabouts of the students studying overseas.

The government is planning to give incentives to those who ...

More IIT graduates have opted for the jobs in Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), this time, due to stability factor. Brilliant graduates from the IITs were known for bagging top-notch offers from multinationals, with six-figure salaries. On the previous occasions, DRDO labs could ...

With a motive to curb ragging in educational institutes across the country, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has notified the setting up of a national call centre in the month of June. The call centre will enable the ragging victims to register their complaints by dialling a toll free number. ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday (May 26) announced the class 10 examination results of Ajmer, Chennai and Panchkula zones. The results of the three zones were announced at about 10 am and that of other regions will be declared shortly. The students can access their ...

The results of Joint Entrance Examination-2009 (JEE-2009) showed that over 10000 students have come out with flying colours. Out of the 384,977 students who appeared for JEE-2009, as many as 10,035 candidates have passed. The successful students will now be able to seek admission to undergraduate ...

Subhashish Bhadra of Delhi Public School (DPS) secured 98 percent in his Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 12 exams to top the Delhi region. The CBSE declared the class 12 results for Delhi, Guwahati and Allahabad on Friday (May 22). When contacted, the elated DPS boy said that he ...

The Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) has announced the results of the examinations of ICSE-2009 and ISC-2009 on Wednesday (May 20). Students can know their results through Internet and SMS services. One can access the results by logging into the official website of ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced the results of class XII for Ajmer, Panchkula and Chennai regions on Wednesday (May 20). The CBSE class XII results for the rest of the country will be declared on Friday (May 22).
 
Students can know their CBSE results from its ...

The Delhi University (DU) on Friday (May 15) raised the Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota reservation to 18 percent. According to a statement from the university, the revised reservation norms will be applicable from the next academic session.  While addressing a press conference, dean ...

With a motive to improve financial literacy, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to introduce courses on financial sector in Karnataka. The central bank of the country has planned to launch the financial literacy project throughout India. The plan is part of the RBI's platinum jubilee ...

The results of Tamil Nadu Board of Higher Secondary Education Examinations have been declared on Thursday (May 14). Students can know their results through a host of websites and through phone and e-mail as well.  One can get his/her marks via SMS by simply registering into the website of the ...

NIIT has signed a five-year contract with department of education of Gujarat to provide Computer Aided Learning in 1,870 high and higher secondary government schools in the state. Because of the new initiative from NIIT, about 9,00,000 school students across Gujarat will be benefited. Recently, ...

Jharkhand girl Shubhra Saxena topped the Civil Services Examination 2008. Shubhra Saxena was born in Bareily in Uttar Pradesh and had basic education upto under graduate level from Jharkhand.  She did her schooling from DAV public school, Dhori and later completed her higher ...

Here is a good news for students aspiring to get into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). The Common Admission Test (CAT) for getting admission into IIMs will become online from this year onward. According to a statement from IIM-Bangalore, from now onwards scores in computer ...

A Parliamentary committee of the Rajya Sabha has disfavored introduction of sex education in schools. Instead, it has suggested inclusion of appropriate chapters in Biology syllabus, but not before plus two stage. Rejecting sex education in schools, the Committee on Petitions of Rajya Sabha said in ...

Delhi University (DU) has received Rs 33.74 crore from the government as part of the Rs 100 crore package promised to it last year by the then finance minister P Chidambaram in his budget speech. The Rs 100 crore was a special package granted to the central university after it was declared an ...

On 3 April 2009, The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) launched its costliest one-year fulltime Executive post-graduate programme in management (EPGP 2009-10).
 
The EPGP batch consists of 73 students, from different regions, background and having different work experience. The ...

As the number of management aspirants, appearing for Indian Institutes of Management's Common Admission Test (CAT), are increasing year by year, the premier management institutes of the country have decided to convert the examination into a computer-based test from the next year.
 
IIM ...

Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad has increased its academic fees to Rs 16.5 lakh for the batch joining in 2009-10 for its flagship one-year postgraduate programme (PGP). The new fees structure comprises admission and tution fees, which were hiked by 10 percent from the existing one of 15 ...

Like any other country, higher education in India has evolved into various divergent streams such as science & engineering, medical, management, commerce, arts and social sciences. At the highest level, higher education in each of these streams is monitored by an apex body, which is indirectly ...

Country’s top B-school, the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad (IIM-A) on Sunday (29th March) hiked the fees structure of its flagship programme, Post-graduate Programme in Management (PGPM), for a second consecutive year. The fees of the two-year course have now been raised to Rs ...