Shruti Balaji, a nine-year-old girl from Chennai won the all India first prize in the art contest "Being a Child in India", organised by the US Embassy in New Delhi to highlight the importance of child survival.
US Ambassador to India Nancy J Powell presented an Apple iPod to Shruti, a student ..
A three-dean committee appointed by Gujarat University to verify eligibility and merit of 50-odd guides, who were appointed by former VC Parimal Trivedi has submitted its report. The report says 50% of the guides fall short of the mandatory criteria and that their guide-ship should be cancelled.
It needs ..
The demand for higher education is increasing rapidly in certain occupations, where mostly non graduates worked a decade ago, says a study on education and employment by Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA).
Traditionally, low graduate intensity occupations such as merchants, shopkeepers, salesmen ..
City students prefer learning oriental languages or German and French to Telugu with hopes of getting better jobs abroad while the government said on Wednesday it was firming up proposals of introducing Telugu from 2013-14 academic year in schools and colleges.
Only a minor percentage of students opt for ..
Just a month after the Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited (CRISIL) gave the A*** grade to TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), the business school has earned one more feather in its cap.
At the 20th Dewang Mehta Business Schools (DMBS) award ceremony held in Mumbai recently, TAPMI has won six ..
Putting to rest all speculations, Odisha has finally decided to join the national eligibility-cum-entrance test (NEET 2013), the over-arching pre-medical entrance replacing state-level examinations. "We had some apprehensions. After the Centre agreed to address those, we have agreed to be part of NEET-2013 for ..
Human resources development minister MM Pallam Raju on Wednesday said that awareness on sanitation and hygiene issues among school children, teachers and parents can help create behavioural change within the society.
Raju, who was speaking at the launch of CBSE's 'Waves of Change' programme and ..
The state cabinet on Wednesday decided that no new engineering college would be allowed to come up in the state and also capped the number of students that existing engineering colleges can admit each year to 420 students per college.
As a result the number of engineering colleges in the state will not go ..
Tamil Nadu Government should construct another SC/ST hostel in a year and accommodate only prescribed number of students as the present one for school and college students of the Scheduled Caste and Tribes located at Surampatty on the suburbs is quite inadequate, Sivanna, Member of National Commission for SC, said...
The West Bengal government is set to implement its Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) for college teachers, who have completed M.Phil or done Ph.D, with effect from November 1.
Announcing this after a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the state's Finance Minister Amit Mitra said altogether 20 per ..