In a role reversal of sorts, teachers took to notebooks and pens at a workshop held in the city.
The focus of the ongoing reinforcement training workshop was on familiarising them with the Right to Education Act and getting more students to attend schools and providing them continuous and free education...
A need for getting itself re-accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has goaded 32-year-old Mangalore University to come out with its draft vision-mission statement.
Setting its sights of getting re-accredited latest by June 2013, the university authorities here has ..
President Pranab Mukherjee has asked vice chancellors and educationists to imbibe Nobel laureate poet and writer Rabindra Nath Tagore's spirit of universalism and pluralism.
Pranab Mukherjee made these remarks during an interaction with a group of intellectuals at the Raj Bhavan last evening after ..
Management continues to be a dream career for several students across the country. No wonder, there is an increasing demand for postgraduate management education programmes. That's the reason why more and more students want to appear for Common Aptitude Test (CAT). The primary registration data for CAT 2012 shows four ..
In a unique conservation initiative, the Calicut University Botanical Garden (CUBG) will provide a safe haven to hundreds of rare, endangered and threatened (RET) trees from the ecologically fragile Western Ghats, which has recently made it to the coveted UNESCO World Heritage list.
The CUBG, the largest ..
In what might stoke fears of a return to the much talked about dalatantra during the Left Front regime, the Mamata Banerjee government on Thursday brought amends to the West Bengal University Laws (Amendment) Act 2011. According to the new law, a state government nominee will replace the UGC nominee in the search panel ..
Law students in colleges affiliated to the Mumbai University are studying an outdated syllabus.
University of Mumbai's inability to respond to an RTI query and then directing it to its' affiliated colleges,has put a question mark on the course content being taught in city colleges.
An RTI ..
Indian universities, which failed to make it to the top 200 World University Rankings, should draw inspiration from ancient academies like Nalanda to be recognised globally, says NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul.
Paul, an MIT alumnus and Chancellor of two British universities, said that his own ..
The Madras High Court vacated its previous order that status quo be maintained regarding campus interviews for recruitment by Central and state government PSUs.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam said if the interim order on a writ petition passed on February 22 ..
They are as young as 12 and 7, but they have dreams of being police officers or dancers. Their hard lives as the children of pavement dwellers in the metropolis has not detered their dreams.
Take the 7-year-old boy who grew up amidst hooch sellers and drug pushers at a railway siding who wants to be a ..