Facing a severe financial crunch, CUSAT is planning to cut posts and merge identical departments, in a bid to save at least Rs 4 crore to Rs 5 crore.
According to top officials, there is a shortage of Rs 35 crore in non-plan funds at the university as the financial year comes to an end on March 31 and the ..
Merely 70,000 aspirants across the country have registered for the first edition of the national level Common Management Admission Test (CMAT).
The entrance test, for admission to 3,500-odd MBA colleges in the country, will be conducted online by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) over a ..
The Mumbai chapter of Intach (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage) has initiated a Heritage Club programme for schoolteachers in the city. It will train educators to sensitise students to Mumbai’s built and natural heritage.
Tasneem Mehta, who heads the Mumbai chapter of Intach, said ..
TN Chief Minister Jayalalitha announced appointment of 1,267 graduate teachers to all middle schools in the state under the 'Education for all scheme', besides alloting Rs 36.17 Crore for upgrading infrastructure facilities.
An official release said Jayalalithaa announced that 831 graduate teachers would ..
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), which has around 2,000 schools affiliated to it in the country and abroad, will revamp its syllabus from the next academic year.
"We have already brought out the new textbooks recently, which will be introduced from the next academic ..
In a step towards granting more autonomy to universities, the UGC has asked them to prepare their own proposals for seeking funds from it for development purpose.
So far, expert committees deputed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) used to visit the varsities to assess their financial needs, based ..
The genetic effect on lifetime IQ has been revealed by scientists who claim that genes account for a quarter of changes in intelligence over people's lives.
Though it is yet to identify exactly which genes are involved in IQ, an international team, led by the University of Queensland, says that the ..
Concerned over the fast declining habit of reading among people, especially students, a Kumbakonam-based bibliophile-cum-entrepreneur has started a four wheeler mobile lending library to reach out to customers in Thanjavur and Chennai districts.
The brainchild of G Murugaraj, son of a ..
India is way ahead of China in terms of nurturing leadership talents, and Indian business leaders are much more effective with their critical skills and are better at identifying/ developing future talents, according to a recent study.
"About 60 per cent or more of the Indian ..
The Haryana government has doubled the award money of Rs 50,000 for those panchayats which ensure 100 per cent enrolment of girls in the 6-14 age group in schools under the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
The government has implemented a number of programmes under the SSA to bring school dropouts into ..