Mumbai will host a three-day India-US Summit on higher education to mark the golden jubilee of the Indo-American Society, an official said Thursday.
The event will be inaugurated by Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal July 30, president of the society V. Rangaraj told reporters.
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Emphasising that physical and mental torture of students hindered their natural development, the West Bengal government today said it has formed new rules for schools to stop corporal punishment.
Making a statement in the state assembly on the suicide of a class 8 student, Rouvanjit Rawla of La Martiniere ..
The computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT) for admission into prestigious IIMs will be held at a lesser number of centres, an American firm which administered the exam said today.
After the conduct of the CAT through computers was marked by glitches last year, the US based firm Prometric said ..
Those who are pursuing medical and engineering courses in Karnataka will have to study an additional subject of Kannada language from next year to help familiarise themselves with Kannada language, according to Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa. They will also have to write an exam in this subject.
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The University of Madras will name its campuses after those who have contributed to the growth of Tamil and provide other incentives for popularising Tamil among college students.
Speaking to reporters on the decisions taken at the Syndicate meeting held on Wednesday, Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam said ..
Wordsmiths in Tamil interested in forging new words in the language for contemporary usage can now mail in their creations and also get an award if their words are approved by an expert committee.
University of Madras Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam said the university was creating a “Word ..
Ninety-eight per cent of CIMA students in India feel secure in their jobs and do not expect to face redundancy in 2010, according to the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants’ (CIMA) most recent global salary survey of its students. This statistic highlights the strong relevance of CIMA’s ..
In response to recent media reports on changes to Australia’s skilled migration programme, the Australian High Commission issued a statement to clarify several misconceptions.
The changes, said the release, were to Australia’s skilled migration programme, not the student visa programme...
Senior Supreme Court judge Mukundakam Sharma on Thursday said that although teachers in government schools get higher salaries and facilities, the standard and quality of education in such schools are deteriorating as compared to private ones.
Addressing a seminar here on access to justice and ..
The Malaysian government plans to recruit more Tamil and Chinese language teachers from next year to fully implement its Pupils Own Language (POL) policy in 7,000 primary schools nationwide.
This is to boost the profile of national schools and cater to parents and students who want Tamil and Chinese to be ..