When the new academic year begins, Goa's lone and state university will add a new three-storied spacious life sciences block to its current infrastructure. For over four years now, the science block for the Goa University is being constructed by the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) at an ..
The numbers only confirm what everyone already knows - we are nowhere near achieving the standards of education and education-infrastructure envisioned in the RTE Act.
A status report on RTE Act implementation across the country by RTE forum -- an umbrella organization of over a 1000 NGOs working in ..
IIT-Madras has renewed ties with RWTH Aachen University in Berlin, Germany. The network between the German university and the Indo-German Centre for Sustainability in IIT-Madras is expected to give a fillip to collaborative research between the two countries, through the recently-sanctioned department of science and ..
Come June, the city will get a new English medium school that will impart both madrassa and modern education to its students simultaneously. Welcoming the move, observers on said that this first-of-its-kind institution would narrow the divide between the two diametrically opposite methods of learning and bring about a ..
IIT-Madras has received about Rs 20 crore from Germany and Rs 5.33 crore from the Government of India's department of science and technology for Indo-German collaborative research projects on sustainability and climate change.
The project is titled 'Building an International Research Network on ..
Only three institutes in the country, all of them Indian Institutes of Technology, feature among the top 100 universities in Asia, according to the first Asia University Rankings released by "Times Higher Education" magazine.
While IIT-Kharagpur is ranked 30th, IIT-Bombay is 33rd and IIT-Roorkee ..
Some of the biggest names in Indian academia and industry are coming together for an online education initiative, which will provide certification in courses from top institutes and upgrade the quality of the workforce.
The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is led by IIT and IISc ..
Ushering in what could be the biggest change in the country's school examination system, the Central Board of Secondary Education will introduce an 'open book' section in the final exams for classes 9, 10 and 11 from the current academic year and for class 12 boards from next year (2014-15).
For the 'open ..
The Madras High Court has stayed a single judge's order, which held that the additional degree obtained by undergoing a one-year course was not equivalent to three-year degree course.
A division bench comprising, Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and M Vijayaraghavan granted the injunction while admitting a writ ..
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) announced tie-up with Amity University to open a school for specialised degree courses in real estate, construction and infrastructure.
Amity has provided the infrastructure facility at its Noida campus for the new institution 'RICS School of Built ..