In a bid to meet shortage of doctors in rural India, the Health Ministry today approved a new 3.5 year course to create a cadre of community health officers for delivering basic medicare services in villages.
Christened as "BSc in Community Health", the course would be imparted through Medical ..
Government servants retire from service at the age of 62 but scientists can continue to work even after 70 years and get state funds for their research.
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) announced a new fellowship 'Science@70 Award' for scientists pursuing research and publishing ..
Eleven young scientists have been selected for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize-2012, India's premier awards in the field of science and technology.
Shantanu Chowdhury of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology and Suman Kumar Dhar of the Special Centre for Molecular Medicine at the Jawaharlal ..
Top-ranked Taiwanese universities will participate in a three-day higher education fair beginning on Thursday in Bangalore.
"Fourteen top-ranked Taiwanese universities will participate in the fair to provide on the spot counselling to potential students and to display reference materials regarding ..
It will soon be mandatory for teachers in all 450 government colleges across Bengal to put in a minimum of five working hours daily, six days a week. The rule, which the higher education department is set to notify through a circular, is likely to be come into effect from November 1.
A similar circular ..
A meeting was held on Wednesday between education officials and representatives of schools from the city in order to comprehend changes to be brought into the syllabi for Std I to VIII from the next academic year.
"The aim was to get reactions of teachers and educationists," said Sanjay Patil, ..
The six-day online exam window for the first of the two Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) for admissions to the MBA and postgraduate management courses for academic year 2013-14, will open from Thursday. The tests will be conducted from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm at the designated exam centres ..
The youngest and smallest of the four armed forces under the defence ministry, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is now finally set to get a training academy of its own under the ongoing revamp of the country's coastal security infrastructure.
The Cabinet Committee on Security, chaired by PM Manmohan Singh on ..
The State Council for Education Research and Training (SCERT) has come up with a five-year action plan to develop a talented pool of students with good enough mathematical skills to participate in national and international competitions, including maths Olympiads, to commemorate the National Year of Mathematics.
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The KPES Higher Secondary School in Kayanthodi, Kuttyadi may have won a state award for imparting the best education in Information Technology (IT), but it also clearly believes in training its students in more earthy endeavours.
Students, who are members of the school’s eco-club, learn to farm on ..