Canberra: Australia will dump 20,000 low-skilled migrant applications to re-focus its immigration intake on high-skilled jobs critical to the economy and help meet growing Chinese resource demand, the government said.
The move was welcomed by Australia's mining sector, where major firms like BHP Billiton ..
With India’s economy growing, people’s aspirations for higher learning are also growing. With this in mind, The Times of India has come out with the second volume of Higher Education — A Guide to Opportunities in India and Abroad, a niche publication to help guide readers through the maze of ..
The Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore, will conduct short-term training programme on molecular biology techniques in microbiology from March 4 to 19.
The programme is sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi. The training will be conducted by ..
“A day will come when the size, weight and thickness of a television will be that of a single sheet of paper or the paint on the wall will be capable of dissipating the bad odour in you and the room.” This passage is not from any science fiction comic or novel. This is hard fact and disclosed by a senior ..
Pragyan, the annual International Techno-Management Festival of the National Institute of Technology, Trichi, from February 25 to 28, has been designed to provide a scintillating experience for participants with very many avenues to exercise creativity and innovation. True to its tagline, the sixth edition has an ..
The National Model Centre for Occupational Health Services, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Tiruchi, has invited applications for a three-month full-time Post-Graduate Certificate Course in Industrial Health (Associate Fellow of Industrial Health), commencing on April 1.
In a press release, A.K. ..
The Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, a deemed university founded by the Department of Space, is going places. Not only is it relocating to a new, verdant 100-acre campus at Valiamala, about 20 km from Thiruvananthapuram but it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) ..
What the ecosystem of our degraded planet Earth and its deprived poor need desperately today is, restoration. Unsustainable development, terrorist activities, pressures of population, poverty and pollution have all brought down our Earth to the brink of a planetary catastrophe, rendering it uninhabitable for all forms ..
The 11 {+t} {+h} zonal level nursing quiz competition “Zenith ‘09” was held at the PSG College of Nursing. Nearly 16 teams from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka took part in the competition. The quiz focused on two specialties, namely fundamentals of nursing and medical surgical nursing. A round on eco ..
The State Higher Education Department's decision to introduce a centralised admission process for admission to undergraduate degree courses in Bangalore and Shimoga on a pilot basis from the academic year 2010-11 has evoked a good response from many private college managements as well as students, even though some ..