Facing faculty shortage, National Institutes of Technology (NITs) have decided to find out innovative approaches to address the issue.
In a step towards realising the recommendations of the Ramaswami Committee, NITs have also sought for greater interface with the industry, sources said.
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A Round Table on Entrepreneurship called for giving emphasis on entrepreneurship education from school level, creating multi-funding avenues for start ups and time bound regulatory clearances for new enterprises.
Prominent state government officials, entrepreneurs, industrialists, management ..
Twelve school children from India have been chosen for a training stint at the Manchester Soccer Schools in London later this year.
Airtel Rising Stars, an initiative launched by Bharti Airtel, selected a dozen students who will travel to England to train at the prestigious school in November.
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West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan said here, lack of infrastructure in the country has affected the quality of education in the country.
"There is no Indian university among the top 200 universities in the world though the Indian students are brilliant," Narayanan said at the convocation of ..
The Labour and Employment Ministry has changed the procedure for institutions seeking affiliation from the National Council for Vocational Training to set up government and private ITIs.
"The changes are effective from the 1st of this month," the Ministry said in a release.
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To develop new scientific approaches for treatment of diseases like cancer, India's Department of Biotechnology and the University of Cambridge are setting up a new initiative for chemical biology and molecular therapeutics at inStem, Bangalore.
Funded by the DBT, the initiative will be conducted in ..
Britain announced a new fund of 2 million pounds to help Indian and other non-EU students caught by the revocation of London Metropolitan University's licence to admit and teach international students.
LMU's licence was revoked on August 29, throwing the academic future of over 350 Indian and over 2,250 ..
The School of Management of Pondicherry University has set up the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data services, which would benefit its faculty, research scholars and PG students.
A release said the centre provided upto date information on different aspects of the country`s ..
With a three-day workshop on research methodology for its faculty inaugurated on Wednesday, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will be focusing more on research activities, officials said.
Organized by IGNOU's School of Management Studies (SOMS), the workshop would help in developing ..
Students enrolled in courses offered by the Karnataka State Open University can keep themselves updated on information, thanks to a 24x7 call centre to be set up by the university. The facility will address the queries of its 3.5 lakh students.
Professionally trained executives will take the calls and ..