The Tamil Nadu Government has reduced minimum eligibility marks by five per cent for admission to Engineering courses from 2010-11 purportedly to widen opportunities for rural students, much to the relief of managements of self-financing engineering colleges. Last year, there were 51,000 vacant seats across the 440 ..
New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University and UNESCO will organise a South Asia Science Olympiad for 11th grade students from all SAARC countries.
Eleventh grade students from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with a minimum of ..
Madurai: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) would offer certificate courses in Chinese and Spanish languages from this year.
Talking to reporters after a function to open a new campus for its regional centre here, IGNOU Vice-Chancellor V N Rajasekharan Pillai said the institution had signed an ..
Kuala Lumpur: Come August and Malaysia will see the first batch of graduates and diploma holders in Indian classical music trained at a state-of-the-art school affiliated to an Indian university.
Malaysian students intending to study Indian classical music now pursue their interest in their own country ..
New Delhi: The decision by Delhi University authorities to increase the eligibility criteria for B.A. and B.Com courses of the School of Open Learning (SOL) to 40 percent has garnered mixed reactions from people.
Many people are opposed to the decision as they feel that it will restrict many aspirants ..
New Delhi: Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi underscored the crucial role education plays in the overall development of society and said every possible effort should be made to educate people on issues related to life.
Addressing a function, organised to mark the formal launch of an educational programme on ..
New Delhi: The Right to Education Act (RTE) might come a cropper for acute shortage of teachers, especially lack of trained ones.
That's how the Parliamentary Committee on Human Resource Development assesses the situation with regard to implementation of the historic act. 'Teacher recruitment is today the ..
New Delhi: The decision by Delhi University authorities to increase the eligibility criteria for B.A. and B.Com courses of the School of Open Learning (SOL) to 40 percent has garnered mixed reactions from people.
Many people are opposed to the decision as they feel that it will restrict many aspirants ..
An India Chair will be set up at the prestigious Leiden University of The Netherlands to strengthen educational and cultural bonds between the two countries.
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and the Leiden University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here yesterday for ..
BJP leader Vijay Goel today demanded that 85 per cent of seats in 18 Delhi Government colleges under the Delhi University be reserved for students who have passed class XII CBSE examination from Delhi. Addressing a press conference here, the BJP leader said he has written a letter to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit ..