Owing to the growing number of human rights abuses in the country, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is planning to introduce human rights as an optional subject in schools. Head of NCERT's department of education in social sciences and humanities, Savita Sinha, said ...

Indian Institute of Management - Lucknow (IIM-L) — one of the top B-schools in India — declared that it will soon hike the fees for its two-year postgraduate programme, on 9 Mar' 09. Devi Singh, the Director of IIM-L, told the media that to meet the financial requirements, the institute ...

One of the premier institutes of management in India, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, (IIM-C) has decided to increase the fees for their flagship management programme by Rs 5 lakh. According to the new fee structure each student taking admission for 2009-11 academic session, will have ...

It is fairly common today to see teenagers or even more, their worried parents, hurtling around exploring possible career options for a 'bright future'.  Career, in today's parlance, means particular occupation for which one is trained. Career implies gainful employment, one that offers ...

Union Human Resource Development Minister, Arjun Singh will lay the foundation stone of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Orissa on Thursday (February 12). The minister was supposed to inaugurate the institute today (February 11), but everything has been rescheduled. Apart from Arjun ...

Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) has agreed with National Knowledge Commission's (NKC) recommendation that there is a need for expansion in higher education. But the ministry has disagreed with most of its suggestion including one, which says that the present regulatory system is a ...

Under the IT@School project, all the government high schools of Kerala will be supplied with a laptop. There are about 1,016 government-run high schools in the state which will get laptops in the current academic year. According to the executive director of IT@School project, K. Anwar Sadat, Kerala ...

The Andhra Pradesh-based National Institute of Technology (NIT) has entered into an agreement with ESIGELEC-School of Engineering Rouen, France. Under the newly signed agreement, both the institutes will promote research and academic exchange. The NIT at Warangal in Andhra Pradesh will also get a ...

Private FM station Radio City 91.1FM opened a radio-training school in Mumbai on Tuesday (February 3) to groom up youngsters for a career in radio broadcasting. The new institute named as Radio City School of Broadcasting will focus on providing training to the young people to take up radio ...

After receiving the approval from the government, Minister of Human Resource Development Arjun Singh is likely to launch the National Mission on Education on February 3 in Tirupati. While informing about the launch, R. P. Agrawal, Secretary, Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development ...

The IIT Council on Wednesday (28th January) approved the appointment of directors in six newly-set up IITs in the country. The IIT Council is the highest decision making body for the elite technical institutes of India.
 
Earlier the newly appointed directors were selected by a search ...

British international business newspaper, Financial Times has listed the Indian School of Business (ISB) as the 15th top business school of the world. This is the second time in back-to-back years that ISB has managed to achieve a high rank among the leading international business schools. In ...

India got a centre to promote research in communication theory and systems at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IITB). The new centre called Bharti Centre for Communication set up jointly by Bharti Foundation and the IITB was inaugurated on Friday (January 23). The new research centre will ...

Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Arjun Singh will inaugurate Nehru Gram Bharati Vishwavidyalaya at Dubawal in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh tomorrow (21st January).
 
Along with the inauguration, the Foundation Stone of the Administrative Bloc of the University is also going to be ...

The Union Cabinet on Friday (9th January) approved the decision to bring an ordinance to set up new central universities in 12 states and upgrade four existing universities to that level.
 
The new central universities would be set up in Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and ...

The North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) in Shillong, Meghalaya has got a supercomputing facility named PARAM Sheersh on Monday (January 5).  PARAM Sheersh was inaugurated by noted scientist Prof M.G.K. Menon. While delivering his inaugural speech, Menon said the supercomputing facility for ...

The Northeastern Hill University (NEHU) in Meghalaya is all set to get a supercomputing facility for bio-informatics and computational biology. The super computing facility called PARAM Sheersh will be inaugurated by former president of India, APJ Abdul Kalam on Sunday (January 4). The ...

The state of Himachal Pradesh is likely to get a unit of the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT). The institute which will be set up in Kangra district of the state is likely to start its admission process from August 2009. The foundation stone of the new unit of NIFT at Kangra will be ...

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has decided on a financial allocation for the 1,000 new polytechnics to be set up across the country at a total cost of Rs 737.82 crore.
 
Of these, 300 polytechnics are to be set up with a one-time Central grant of Rs 12.3 crore a polytechnic ...

The Madras High Court on Tuesday (23rd December) set aside the appointment of M S Ananth as Director of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, holding that he had not been appointed by the Council, the central body for IITs, as required by law.
 
Justice K Chandru set aside the ...

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced to introduce its own TV channel exclusively devoted to science and technology from December 23 onwards. While interacting with the media IGNOU vice-chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai informed that the new channel will go for test ...

Graduation is a watershed in one’s career as rest of the professional life of an individual is guided by what career he/she chooses after graduation. Though a lot depends on the personal taste and choice of an individual, there are various career options after graduation. Right from the field ...

The Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) situated at Nashik has received a grant of $50,000 (over Rs.2 million) from the US department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on December 20. The money will be utilised for oragnising meets and technical workshops which will enable to expand ...

Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) M.A.A. Fatmi introduced the ‘Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2008’, in the Rajya Sabha on Monday (15th December).
 
The introduction of the Bill came after several abortive efforts to draft the ...

The Kerala State Education Department will ensure that India’s maiden moon venture does not remain confined to the scientific realm. The Chandrayaan I Mission, which catapulted India into an elite league of space faring nations, will be introduced as a 'special project’ in Kerala ...

Leading learning and knowledge solution provider, NIIT and Adobe have tied up to offer web and multimedia course to schools. Talking about the new programme, NIIT President (School Learning Solutions) L Balasubramanium informed that students of class 6-12 will be taught to use Adobe Creative Suite ...

The Writers Block (TWB), a leading institution of technical communication training, documentation outsourcing and knowledge publishing has added another dimension to its industry-leading portfolio of training with its release of training on Patent Writing.
TWB's Patent Writing training focuses on ...

Here is a good news for the farmers. The state of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get schools for farmers to impart scientific lessons to improve the production of crops. The farmers' school will be opened by the Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology based in Kanpur. According to ...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) and Omar Zawawi Establishment LLC (OMZEST), a prominent corporate group of Oman to promote an institute of cost and management accountants in Oman.
According to Kunal Banerjee, ...

The Union Cabinet on Thursday (November 20) approved the establishment of Ghani Khan Choudhary Institute of Engineering and Technology in Malda, West Bengal. Initially, the institution would start with certificate level courses leading to Diploma, Degree and Post-graduate levels later.
The ...