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Times of India
January 30, 2018
The stream-wise schedule for more than six lakh undergraduate students in 560 affiliated colleges has been uploaded on http://aucoe.annauniv.edu. ... 'theory of machines' need more time," said a mechanical engineering student from a government college in Coimbatore on condition of anonymity.
Quartz
January 30, 2018
Set at a fictional college modeled on one of India's most competitive higher education universities, the Indian Institutes of Technology, Three Idiots tells the story of how three engineering students suffered under and fought against the strict college principal, nicknamed “Virus” who drove one of them toÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 30, 2018
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi; Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee; Sathyabama University, Chennai; Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal; Hindustan Institute of Engineering Technology (HIET), Chennai; Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai; PSG College of Technology,ÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 30, 2018
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Palakkad-based Aryanet Institute of Technology has become the latest among the self-financing engineering colleges in the state that has decided to wind up operations. The college has informed APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University about its willingness to transferÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
January 30, 2018
For historical and other reasons, the study of various aspects of India has been one of the most prominent themes in UK university research, particularly at centres of Indian expertise at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Recent years haveÃÂ ...
Business Today
January 29, 2018
The higher education landscape in India is undergoing a paradigm shift, with private deemed to be universities beginning to make significant contributions ... for leading deemed to be universities which have already secured high rank in various world university rankings and have a potential to climb further.
CBC.ca
January 26, 2018
Indian students at the University of Manitoba are hoping to connect with the new-to-Winnipeg student who was viciously beaten in an apparently random and unprovoked attack at a downtown bus stop Tuesday morning. The 17-year-old victim, an international student at the U of M, had moved from IndiaÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 26, 2018
... last meeting of university coordination committee it was decided that instead of an optional subject NSS should be included in the foundation course as a mandatory disciplinetoi. Meeting was organised recently. Committee has also given responsibility to different universities to prepare comprehensiveÃÂ ...
Nature.com
January 26, 2018
Thousands of scientists in India have signed an online petition protesting against comments by a higher-education minister who last week publicly questioned the ... The original comments were made by Satyapal Singh, a junior minister for human-resource development who oversees university education.
Times of India
January 26, 2018
The governing council of the higher education council on Tuesday decided to set up a committee of university pro-vice chancellors to study the ... The council has also decided to take steps to simplify the procedures for giving equivalency to various courses offered by different institutions and universities.
Economic Times
January 25, 2018
On the perception accelerators of a great career start that they think will land them a meaningful career just after college 37% of candidates think excellent ... must be followed by Higher education campuses in India where colleges can set up such centers to benefit candidates right from first year of colleges.
Newsweek
January 24, 2018
Whether Singh's beliefs will change Indian education is hard to say. But there are potentially 139.9 million primary school children who could go without learning Darwin's Theory of Evolution. And he is in charge of higher education, which includes an estimated 34 million Indian citizens. Singh isn't alone inÃÂ ...
Science Magazine
January 23, 2018
On Friday, India's minister for higher education, Satyapal Singh, took aim at the theory of evolution. Calling himself “a responsible man of science,” Singh, a chemist, suggested that Darwin's theory is “scientifically wrong” and “needs to change” in school and university curricula. In remarks on the sidelines ofÃÂ ...
Livemint
January 16, 2018
Although some believe the move may compromise quality, it will help India improve its low gross enrolment ratio (GER) in higher education and address the problem of access to colleges, faced in several parts of India. “In a month or so, the rules will be finalized. The University Grants Commission isÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
January 14, 2018
The declines are like money — in the form of tuition dollars — pouring through a hole in some college purses. Many international students pay full freight on tuition to attend schools here. Midwest schools, including some in Missouri and Kansas, are suffering hefty blows. The University of Central Missouri atÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 14, 2018
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Unaided Colleges Association (PUCA) has the state government to complete its audit and release the pending Rs 205 ... the Congress government ordered the audit of 3,606 colleges and technical institutes on June 16 last year, claiming post-matric scholarship scheme forÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 14, 2018
"I don't know where my daughter has been kept, in what condition, I have not been allowed to meet her. I have come to know there is some ganda kaam (dirty things) happening in the ashram." "When we met our daughter, she said she was happy and wanted to stay in the ashram. But she looked weak andÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 13, 2018
About 600 million people, more than half India's population, are under 25 years old; no country has more young people. .... of productive jobs and “call the shots in the global economy” India would need to build at least 1,000 universities in the next 10 years and nearly 50 times as many technical colleges.
The Indian Express
January 13, 2018
WHILE ruling out apprehensions that the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), as the regulator for engineering and technical education in the country, will close down engineering colleges that fail to fill up all their seats, the Council's vice-chairman, Dr M P Poonia, on Friday said that the AICTEÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
January 12, 2018
The only education policy we have is the 1986 document approved during Rajiv Gandhi's prime ministership. Three decades have passed, but the reluctance to discuss the implications of economic liberalisation in education continues. At the same time, the educational space has fully opened up for privateÃÂ ...
Times of India (blog)
January 3, 2018
Why Modi's announcement of a competition to identify 20 top Indian universities will actually improve higher education ... Modi's centenary address at the University of Patna in Bihar included the announcement of a competition to identify 20 Indian universities that have potential to become “world class”.
Livemint
December 18, 2017
While Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore dropped 18 ranks to 51st, Calcutta University dropped 17 places to 125th in Asia. IIT Roorkee slipped 15 ... With 822 universities and over 51,000 colleges, Indian higher education suffers from a dual problem—quality and quantity. Unlike the school sector,ÃÂ ...
Economic Times
December 31, 1999
Arjun Puri, director admission and outreach, Jindal Global University, has been research associate with the Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, since it was started in 2014 with 20 students. "At 16 or 17, students are too young to decide on a field of study. The new liberal arts colleges in India areÃÂ ...
Times of India
December 31, 1999
MADURAI: India has got the highest enrolment in higher education at present with 70 million and is set to grow further and retain at least for the next 20 years, said chairman of Thiagarajar College of Engineering Karumuttu T Kannan. "There is a big challenge before the government and institutions sinceÃÂ ...
Times of India (blog)
December 31, 1999
While efforts like the Indian Institutes of Management Bill granting functional autonomy to IIMs and a competition to identify 20 Indian universities that have potential to become world class are welcome, what's needed is a complete re-imagination of higher education. Universities can no longer be seen asÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
November 19, 2017
Manushi, who is a third-year MBBS student at a medical college in ... Manushi Chhillar is the first Indian woman to bag the Miss World title after ...
NDTV
November 19, 2017
Patna: Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital authorities in Bihar ... Committee was formed on a directive of the Medical Council of India ...
India West
November 19, 2017
India has the largest Muslim population after Indonesia, which is about 14.2 percent of its ... by their parents, particularly mothers –are going for higher education. ... "In rural areas, even Hindu girls prefer girls-only colleges and avoid ... Hindu University and served at Shibli National Intermediate College as ...
Indiatimes.com
November 19, 2017
Dyal Singh College Gets A New Name, Snowfall Across Northern India And ... University has outdone everyone by naming the college after India's ... Right at the onset of winter parts of northern India have welcomed snowfall.
Hindustan Times
November 19, 2017
The Aligarh Muslim University must abolish separate colleges for male and ... The institution, better known as AMU, is among 10 universities being ... courses in separate boys-only and girls-only college is considered a legacy of ... violation of the constitution that does not permit a secular India to set up and ...
Economic Times
November 19, 2017
The nearly 500 colleges and universities that responded, reported ... the competition for top global talent in higher education and the ... for international education, University at Buffalo -The State University of New York.
Times Higher Education (THE)
November 18, 2017
More than 120 higher education institutions in India have been told to stop ... status of deemed-to-be-universities are using the word 'university', ...
Inside Higher Ed (blog)
November 16, 2017
The “Achilles' heel” of Indian higher education is its poor quality, ... Indian universities are ranked low in world university rankings, and, this ...
News@UofT
November 6, 2017
A record number of Indian students were admitted to Canadian colleges and universities in 2017, with 100,000 students now coming from India ...
Times of India
October 21, 2017
KANNUR: The Government Brennen College, at Thalasserry, has started a chair in the name of Potheri Kunjambu (1857-1919), a novelist who ...
British Politics and Policy at LSE (blog)
October 21, 2017
EU-India trade has more than tripled since 2000, but UK-India trade is ... of Government in the USA and the University of Strathclyde in the UK, ...
Times of India
October 21, 2017
Incidentally, the course was approved by University's Board of ... letter has been sent to the higher education secretary, vice-chancellor of ...
Times of India
October 21, 2017
NEW DELHI: A Bengaluru college has come under fire for ... India's Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, prohibits the giving or taking of dowry.
Scroll.in
October 20, 2017
On October 5, India's higher education regulator, the University Grants Commission, wrote to all universities requesting them to peruse and ...
Penn Current
October 19, 2017
Jaswant Singh, former cabinet minister, Government of India, at a 2010 CASI lecture at ... Photos by Dani Castillo, a 2015 graduate of the College, who worked as a ... the University and researchers from other institutions in the U.S. and in India are ... entrepreneurship among socially marginalized groups, higher education, ...
Outlook India
October 11, 2017
New Delhi [India], Oct 11 : Innovation Acceleration Group at University of California Berkeley Executive Education (UC Berkeley), one of the ...
The Hindu
October 11, 2017
The Indian model now seems to be emerging, says the Union Finance ... said, addressing the students of the Columbia University in New York.
Hindustan Times
October 11, 2017
(From left) Maya Parmar and Susheila Nasta of Open University, India's high commissioner YK Sinha, Florian Stadler of the University of Exeter, ...
Times of India
October 11, 2017
The Times of India ... "The University Grant Commission has made it mandatory to set up Equal Opportunity Cells in universities and colleges. ... Vice-chancellors and principals of different universities and colleges from across the state ... and higher education will jointly monitor the functioning of these cells.
India Today
October 11, 2017
The India-China Yoga College (ICYC), which comes under China's Minzu University, has opened enrollment for its new master's programme.
Times of India
October 11, 2017
7.5 lakh university and college teachers to receive benefits under 7th ... "Assistant and associate professors of 329 state universities and 12,912 colleges will get the ... Teachers of all centrally funded deemed universities and 43 central ... Prasad emphasised that "India is stressing on skilling its workforce ...
Economic Times
October 10, 2017
Beijing: China's first yoga college, the India-China Yoga College, today ... from both Yunnan Minzu University and Swami Vivekananda Yoga ...
University of Bristol
October 10, 2017
In one of the biggest independent studies of its kind, scientists from the University of Bristol have concluded that there has been little growth in ...
Hindustan Times
October 10, 2017
The University of Birmingham is starting a new three-week online free training for engineering students across India that will help them improve ...
Economic Times
October 10, 2017
Beijing: China's first yoga college, the India-China Yoga College, today ... from both Yunnan Minzu University and Swami Vivekananda Yoga ...
