Faculty of Science of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) revamping its examination system and making it more transparent will allow its students to see checked copies. B.D. Singh, Dean of the Faculty of Science said that students would be given checked copies and in case any student objects to the ...

The holy town of Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab is soon going to get the world's very first Sikh university - the Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University. Parkash Singh Badal, the chief minister of Punjab, on Monday, September 1, will lay the foundation stone of this educational institution. ...

According to some sources, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation may open schools all across India on the pattern of Rishi Valley School. In this regard, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra recently visited Rishi Valley School and studied modus operandi of the institute. However, otherwise reports reveal ...

The EAMCET final phase counseling for admission of candidates from ranks 54,001 to the last rank will start on September 2. It is on September 23 that the final phase will end and the classes will start the day after. A high level meeting was convened at the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher ...

Delhi University cannot impose on the St Stephen's College, at least as far as appointing a principal is concerned. The long drawn dispute between St Stephen's and the Delhi University was brought to a close on Thursday, August 21 by the Delhi High Court, which confirmed the former’s status ...

HRD Ministry has agreed upon the demand of IITs of de-reserving vacant faculty which does not get filled for a year. Also, the ministry admitted that it erred while asking IITs to reserve posts from the entry level of lecturer, as lecturer's job is now contractual, and how can those on contract be ...

In order to help churn out trained work force, the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on Monday, August 18. The core idea is to train students with requisite employability skills. ...

Amartya Sen, famous economist and one the members of panel of high-profile people from India and abroad appointed as mentors of the proposed Nalanda University, expects that the university will be operative academically from the year 2010. Factually, the old university of Nalanda is being ...

Sources from the Aligarh Muslim University informed that the varsity has collaborated with the Washington University Law School and the Johns Hopkins University to provide its students a number of academic programmes. Confirming the news, AMU spokesperson Rahat Abrar, said ‘The academic ...

Earlier part-time courses for working professionals and now distance learning programs for them; IITD is certainly in expanding mode. In its goal to expand its reachin NCR and offer quality education to working professionals, IITD recently launched its distance learning program. According to IIT ...

In pursuance of the Supreme Court of India judgment, Chief Commissioner for persons with disabilities, New Delhi, Manoj Kumar has asked IITs to treat disabled on par with SCs. The decision from Chief Commissioner has come when parents of two physically challenged candidates pointed out that the ...

According to a press release on pib.nic.in, the results of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2008 held by the UPSC in May, 2008 has been declared by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). The result includes the roll numbers of the candidates who have qualified for the Civil Services ...

Bangalore based BPO major Accenture and IGNOU have entered into a collaboration to offer a diploma course on BPO services in India. The course aims to develop a diploma programme is designed to help grow India’s outsourcing industry. It will facilitate comprehensive human resource training to ...

A number of online courses will be introduced by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) from this week onwards. It was only on Sunday, August 10 that IGNOU had announced its plans to expand its distance learning programmes.
 
The online courses will be offered for PhD, M. Phil, ...

According to some reports the RC Bhargava committee which was appointed by the GOI to study and analyze the overall functioning of the IIMs, most probably will not recommend for any change in fee structure. Bhargava so far has visited all IIMs and has finalized its report on the structure of ...

IIT Delhi has taken a decision that it will entertain industry professional in learning new skills. Under this policy change, now candidates would be eligible to attend classes along with IIT regular students. IIT Delhi Director Surendra Prasad said that now they are allowing industry professionals ...

Pratibha Devisingh Patil, India’s 12th President and the only woman to hold the post, is going to receive a D.Litt degree from Lucknow University on September 23. The varsity officials themselves made this news public recently. A.S. Brar, the Vice-Chancellor, remarked, ‘It will be a ...

There never was convened a second round of admissions at any of the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) before. But such a thing is now going to happen to fill empty seats at all 13 IITs, plus at the IT-BHU and Indian School of Mines-Dhanbad. A second list at all these institutes will be released ...

Acquiring engineering cum management degrees, that too from a reputed institute, has long been viewed as the ideal combo for achieving success and high salary. The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay will now help attain this dream as it is now permitting its engineering students to study ...

While IIM Lucknow is already offering a management development program on corporate environmental management and carbon markets, IIM Ahmedabad has announced that it will add more to environment study and will launch Carbon Finance Course. The course is aimed at providing conceptual and practical ...

West Bengal University of Technology better known as WBUT aims to provide guidance and affiliation to numerous engineering, technology and management institutes in West Bengal has now offered students web facility to search their results and get updated about the institute. Now, students can log in ...

The dream of Bihar to have an IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) will finally get realized on Thursday, August 6. Classes will start the day after. It has been decided that till the time a special IIT campus readies on the outskirts of the Bihar’s capital city in the next two–three ...

JEE may be the toughest competition for thousands of IIT aspirants, but for IIT-Madras director, MS Ananth, it has failed to fetch the best talent in IITs. The issue may stir a national debate for its grave importance. Earlier also there has been concerned voices coming from many sectors about the ...

The Bihar government looks determined to spruce up educational infrastructure in the state. After the plan to set up an international university at Nalanda got clearly recently, one now hears that the state government has given a go-ahead to the proposed Aryabhatt Knowledge University at Patna too. ...

To cater to the growing demand for trained professionals in India’s insurance industry, the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta has collaborated with the ICICI Prudential and has asked it to design a course suited for the insurance sector. The insurance industry in India is growing at a ...

Indian participants fared remarkably in the 39th International Physics Olympiad (IPO), which just ended on Monday, July 28. Held at Hanoi in Vietnam, the students participating from India bagged four gold medals and a silver. This is best performance by Indians in the Physics Olympiad held so far. ...

With experts seeing major growth for the computer animation and gaming industry in India in the coming years, the state government is already into action for setting up necessary infrastructure in order to turn this assumption into reality.
 
It was recently announced by minister of state ...

From 2009 onwards, it will become mandatory for the MBBS students in India to undergo a year-long stint in the rural villages in order to apply for a post graduate degree in the country. As per reports, the Union Health Ministry has forwarded the final proposal about one year compulsory rural stint ...

While the plans to create eight more Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in India are in the pipeline, the IIT at Gandhinagar in Gujarat is ready for inaugural on August 2 this year. Sources informed that the IIT Gandhinagar will commence with three specialization subjects and 103 students. ...

Ashok Misra, the director of IIT Bombay, has quit after eight years of holding the post to join a private firm based at Bellevue in Washington called Intellectual Ventures. The US based private firm was founded in 2000. It invests in inventions and is working to build a bank of patents. Mr Ashok ...