College students who are hooked on to texting or chatting on cell phones and constantly updating their Facebook status may be negatively affecting their academic performance, a new study has warned
Researchers from The Miriam Hospital's Centers for Behavioural and Preventive Medicine in US found freshmen ..
Professor David Gross, a Nobel laureate in Physics, recently addressed the students and faculty of College of Engineering in Pune. Organised by Honeywell, a technology and aerospace products firm, as a part of its global Honeywell Initiative for Science and Engineering (HISE), the event was first initiated in 2006 and ..
Sheffield University Management School (UK) has established links with two of India's oldest and leading engineering institutes, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. Under this tie-up, the institutions will jointly conduct various research projects.
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Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) recently held the ICSI National Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance on the best governed companies in India. Initiated in 2001, the awards aim to identify, foster and reward the culture of evolving globally acceptable standards of corporate governance among ..
India needs a radical revolution in higher education, believes C Rangarajan, chairman, economic advisory council to the prime minister. "We need to move away from the system of examinations. I was amazed to see a question paper ten years ago. It was the same as the one I took some forty years ago," he said on ..
The directorate of distance education (DDE) of Patna University (PU) is facing rough weather as the Distance Education Council of India (DECI) has derecognized its all five postgraduation courses. Now, no student can be admitted to any of these courses in the current academic session.
The DDE has been ..
Perhaps learning from past mistakes, Nagpur University vice-chancellor Vilas Sapkal has decided to act tough against the teachers who earlier failed to report for duties, even as its deferred examinations commenced on Friday. In a public notice uploaded on its website, pro vice-chancellor Mahesh Yenkie has asked all ..
The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), DAVV, has come up with a unique idea of exposing students on live projects while studying. The institute has formed an internal organization IET Incubation Center where students will work on such projects, so that they can learn new technologies, interact with market, ..
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has tried to assess the reasons behind the spurt in evils like corruption and sexual crimes in the Indian society. The CBSE authorities along with some education experts have deduced that decline in value education is the root cause of such evils that are growing in the ..
A team of researchers from Flinders University's School of Environment, Australia, is helping the state government to measure the wellbeing of its people.
Adapting Bhutan's Happiness Index, Flinders University and IIT-Guwahati will jointly assess the state's well-being index. The chief minister's office ..