The Sixth Pan-Commonwealth Forum (PCF6) on Open Learning will be jointly organised by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Vancouver-Canada and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) from November 24-28, 2010 at Kochi, Kerala.
The event is being held for the first time in India. PCF is a biennial ..
The Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU), one of the oldest engineering colleges in the country, has received the status of the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) and will now introduce integrated courses with dual degrees.
"We will offer integrated courses ..
Former president Dr A P J Abdul Kalam today said there was a need for adopting e-judiciary system in the country which will increase the efficiency of the various courts, ensure transparency and quicker disposal of cases.
Kalam was speaking at the special convocation function of the National University of ..
US President Barack Obama has warned of an "education arms race" with China and India and said that any cut in the education budget as recommended by the opposition Republican Party would be detrimental to America's national interest.
"Nothing would be more shortsighted," Obama said in ..
Nita Ambani, wife of billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani, will deliver a lecture at the London School of Economics tomorrow on building institutions of excellence in India.
Nita would deliver the 'C+J (sic) Modi/Narayanan PhD Fellowship Lecture' on October 15 and the session would be chaired by ..
Buoyed over discus thrower Krishna Poonia striking gold in the Commonwealth Games, the Rajasthan government today announced that it will recruit at least 2,000 teachers in physical training and education in the state.
The recruitment would be done through Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) in due ..
IIMs, the top business schools of the country, will have the freedom to open new centres in and outside India, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said.
Chairing a meeting of chairpersons and directors of IIMs here, Sibal said it was part of the government's efforts to provide autonomy to the institutions.
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IIM Shillong initiated a three-day programme that concluded on October 13.
The programme on Foreign Exchange Options titled Pricing, Hedging and Applying Exotics and Structured Products was inaugurated at the World Trade Centre, Mumbai in the presence of the Institute’s founding director, Prof AK ..
IL&FS Education, pioneers in education infrastructure in the country announced the launch of its Exploriments portal, which focuses on developing conceptual understanding of Science and Mathematics. The portal was inaugurated by Dr Anil Kakodkar, (Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT-B and ex-Chairman of Atomic Energy ..
The trend of fresh graduates going into higher management education without work experience is ineffective, said Prof. Damodar Acharya, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp). Addressing at the recent Higher Education Meet 2010, organised by CII he remarked that corporates should encourage higher ..