Chennai: Protests against Centre's move to strip 44 educational institutions countrywide of their deemed university status turned violent today in Tamil Nadu with students of two colleges pelting stones, damaging property and blocking traffic at various places of the state.
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Chennai: Madras High Court has pulled up the Nagapattinam district authorities for not taking immediate action against 'unrecognised' private schools functioning in the district.
'Had action been taken at the initial stage itself', Justice K Venkataraman said 'students would not be suffering at this stage...
New Delhi: A proposal for setting up model colleges in 374 educationally backward districts of the country is likely to come before the Cabinet tomorrow.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had in 2007 announced starting such colleges in those districts where the gross enrolment ratio in higher education is ..
Chennai: Leading education service provider Sri Ramachandra University (SRU) and University of California-Berkely today signed an MoU to launch masters programme in public health.
This two-year four semester study would be started by the Department of Environmental Health Enginerring of SRU and the ..
The University of Delhi, which is one of the leading institutes of higher education in India, will be providing various short-term courses for both Indians and Foreigners in the country.
The Delhi University Short Term Courses are of ten weeks duration and would be run twice a year. Candidates who want to take up ..
Ahmedabad: Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT-GN) has inked a pact with the Washington University in St Louis for research in the field of energy and
environment.
"The joint collaborative programme with the Washington University in St Louis will help our Chemical and Mechanical ..
Chennai: The Madras University will make a foreign language mandatory for post-graduate courses in Management and Computer Science. During the visit of former French Minister and now the Roving French Ambassador for Culture in Asia, Jacques Valade, to the university on Monday, vice-chancellor G Thiruvasagam said the ..
New Delhi: About 2 lakh students of 44 deemed universities, which face the prospect of derecognition, were today assured by the govt that they would all get degrees.
The government, which accepted the findings of an expert committee on the functioning of deemed universities and submitted them to the ..
Bhubaneswar: A large team of intellectuals from different educational institutions across the world visited KIIT to exchange views on education system and allied issues.
The visiting team included Sanjay Wadvani, British deputy high commissioner, Kolkata, Prof Wolfer Ragnar Grimsan from Iceland, Dr ..
Kolkata: Department of Business Management, Calcutta University, held its annual conference on the topic Meltdown Aftermath: Response of India Inc. on January 17 to bring the leading industry experts from diverse fields like coal, petrol, human resource, insurance, etc.
Parth S Bhattacharya, chairman, ..