Branded pre-schools across the country increased their fees 120 percent between 2005 and 2010, a survey has found.
The average fees for the kindergarten segment have gone up from Rs.1,500 to over 3,500 per month, the survey by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) showed.<br ..
Shirin Middhya has won a hard-fought battle to get out of the veil. Four months after being shunted out of the Aliah University main campus to the Salt Lake branch following a controversy over refusing to wear the burqa, the 24-year-old Bengali lecturer has been reinstated. And the university website has a ..
IIT Kharagpur is going ahead with its medical college project despite reports that the expert panel set up under health ministry to look into the feasibility of medical courses under the IITs has argued against the project.
“If the plan was scrapped, we would have been ..
A controversy erupted at Muralidhar Girls’ College recently after the college authorities gave out a notice to students, asking them to wear “decent clothes” on campus.
The notice had an elaborate list of clothes that students were henceforth prohibited from ..
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) recently conducted a “National HR Symposium on Re-engaging the Lost Talent” in Kolkata.
The symposium is an effort by the institute to set a platform for exchange of knowledge and ideas among renowned leaders from the HR community ..
The cultural capital of India will be gripped by an array of German social and cultural events between the months of August and September, held by Goethe Institut at the Max Mueller Bhavan.
It will kick off on August 16 by bidding adieu to the 16 mm projector camera and will ..
The chief minister of Punjab, Sardar Parkash Singh Badal laid the foundation stone for the new campus of the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Mohali, Punjab, marking the start of construction of the school’s first campus outside Hyderabad.
The move underscores the ..
Leadership qualities should be inculcated in students , said Aravind Aadhi, vice-president Elkayem Industries Ltd, Hosur, here recently.
Presiding over the Investiture Ceremony at Shisya School here. Mr. Aadhi said the institution should take every step to induce a sense of leadership among students at a ..
The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the government could act in any matter related to a varsity, including recognition or derecognition, only after its recommendation.
The UGC said its recommendations in matters related to the status of a university were not ..
A bill for re-establishing the ancient Nalanda university was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
The Nalanda University Bill, 2010, will establish a central university in Nalanda district of Bihar, identifying with the ancient university, which was founded in 5th century AD and became a centre of ..