The premier bourse, National Stock Exchange of India Ltd has joined hands with the Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics (GIPE), a deemed university at Pune, to start post graduate executive diploma course in financial markets (PGED-FM) for working pofessionals.
The financial sector is expected to ..
President Pranab Mukherjee lamented that India, once the cradle of civilization, is now the poorest in terms of education, literacy and knowledge.
Describing lack of literacy as the biggest challenge facing the country, Mukherjee said the largest number of illiterates in the world resided in India.
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IIT Roorkee alumni has launched a funding initiative under which the alumni will directly fund student projects.
The initiative, known as Student Alumni Association of Roorkee, is an interactive technology-enabled transaction platform specially designed for students of IIT Roorkee.
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A special train focusing on bio-diversity and climate change will be stationed at Delhi Cantonment station for four-days beginning December 2.
Known as the Science Express-Biodiversity Special, the state-of-the-art exhibition train has covered 263 stations across the country, a senior Northern Railway ..
Assam Human Rights Commission (HRC) wants introduction of human rights in the syllabus of primary and secondary school and at the college level.
Delivering the Second Surendra Nath Sarma memorial lecture on human rights education here, HRC Chairman Justice (Retd) Aftab Hussain Saikia said, there could be ..
The Uttarakhand government has given its nod for the setting up of Urdu Academy in the capital.
Announcing this, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said different languages of the country are a reflection of its pluralist culture and the Urdu Academy will be a step towards strengthening it.
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Senior education experts and non-governmental organisations (NGO) in Pune and Mumbai are preparing a model code of conduct for school students. With teachers constantly complaining about student misbehaving in classrooms, the code is being designed taking into consideration some of the existing models in the US and ..
AICTE chairman SS Mantha came down heavily on the surveys done by Nasscom and other firms which said only 25% graduates in India are employable. Interacting with TOI during his visit to the Nagpur University on Tuesday, he questioned the very basis of these surveys, stating those were limited to very few people.
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Even as establishment of Aligarh Muslim University's (AMU) clone at Kishanganj is on the anvil for which the state government has already allocated land, the UPA government at the Centre has offered another bonanza to Kishanganj district.
The Centre has announced the establishment of a Central University ..
The increasing interest in higher education among the technical graduates in the country is a direct reflection of the growing number of aspirants for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). The aspirants have grown from a mere 1.8 lakh in 2008 to 7.7 lakh in 2012.
The GATE-2013 will see more ..