HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today expressed hope that crucial legislations on reforming higher education, which have already been tabled in the Parliament, will be passed by this year.
He said while Parliamentary Standing Committee reports are awaited on some of these bills, reports of some other legislations ..
The first Padmanath Memorial and Ramanath Memorial literary awards 2010 would be presented to eminent Assamese poet Ajit Barua and noted Bengali poet Bijit Kumar Bhattacharya, respectively, on Sunday here.
The awards would be presented at a function where the Padmanath Vidyabinod Memorial Lecture would be ..
Meghalaya Government is contemplating on offering Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) to some 15,000 'untrained' teachers in the state, most of them without even minimum qualifications, Governor R S Mooshahary said.
"Keeping in mind the huge backlog of about 15,000 untrained teachers and the limited capacity ..
Coming to the rescue of a woman MBBS doctor who was not able to appear for counselling for the PG Course at Mumbai centre due to illness on March 6, the Delhi High Court today directed AIIMS to allow her to participate in the exercise here.
Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw allowed the petition filed by Seema S ..
Fearing that education institutions would be "crippled" due to restrictions imposed by a recent AICTE notification for post-graduate diploma in management courses, an industry body on Thursday said it will come up with self-regulatory mechanism for such colleges.
"Educational institutions ..
The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta on Thursday claimed that students of the institution have bagged the highest number of offers during the final placement ‘Slot Zero' among all IIMs this year.
Two hundred offers, including 139 final placement offers and 61 pre-placement offers, were made ..
The Directorate of Matriculation Schools has received 56 applications from persons interested in starting a new school in the State for the coming academic year. This is about half the number of applications it has been receiving in the last few years.
In the last academic year, the Directorate received ..
The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to interfere with a Madras High Court judgment upholding the abolition of Common Entrance Test for admission to professional courses in Tamil Nadu.
A Bench of Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar dismissed a special leave petition filed by Minor A.S. ..
PTU to hold job fest The Punjab Technical University (PTU), in collaboration with the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is holding a job fair from March 12-13. It is the first such event being held in the city. Thousands of students from nearly 300 colleges are expected to interact with companies.
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The All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) has uploaded the particulars of all the aspiring candidates on its website and asked them to check for any errors, an official informed.
"The candidates are advised to verify their particulars on the website. If there is any variation in the ..