Using Australian telescopes, Swinburne University astronomy student Andy Green has found ‘living dinosaurs’ in space: galaxies in today’s Universe that were thought to have existed only in the distant past.
The report of his finding – Green’s first ..
Two Italian art and design schools have launched courses in Kolkata.
Domus Academy [DA] and Nuova Accademia Di Belle Arti Milano [NABA] — part of Laureate International Universities network, a global leader in higher education for Art and Design — ..
Steering a 192-year-old institution as a newborn university is not an easy task. It is like wearing a crown of thorns, feels the newly appointed vice-chancellor of Presidency University, Amita Chatterjee.
While she is extremely excited about the challenge at hand, especially because ..
With the fees for a two-year programme at IIM-Calcutta standing at Rs 13.5 lakh, its director wondered just how much more they could charge and whether it was justified to depend on students’ fees to finance the institute’s expansion plans.
Speaking at the Higher Education Meet 2010 — ..
Eyeing the minority vote for the next assembly elections, minister for minority affairs Abdus Sattar laid the foundation stone of the state’s first English-medium madarsa education hub at Uluberia’s Chengail in Howrah on Saturday.
Speaking on the occasion, Sattar said that the government would ..
Students should imbibe the finer human qualities and sensitivities rather than just learn by rote, Archbishop of Canterbury Reverend Rowan Williams advised principals of Church of North India (CNI) schools during a brief interaction with the latter in the course of his three-day trip.
Only this ..
The Union cabinet on Tuesday cleared the proposal to upgrade Bengal Engineering and Science University (Besu) to the status of the country’s first Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST). The ministry of human resource development had kept the proposal on hold following the clashes on the ..
The National Institute for Research and Environmental Health (NIREH) was officially launched here to undertake research on long-term medical and environmental impact of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy.
The Institute, which would be a centre of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), would not only study the ..
Indians are the most ambitious lot in the world with eight out of ten employees in the country likely to move to another organisation that promises them faster and better development, says a survey.
According to Ma Foi Randstad Workmonitor survey, India continues to have the highest Global Mobility Index ..