As India prepares for a GER (gross enrolment ratio ) of 30% by 2020, the country needs a range of out-of-the-box solutions. With this in mind, the ministry of human resource development (MHRD) is preparing a five-point action plan, which would be based on new technology.
According to Kapil Sibal, minister ..
Around 80 leading legal academics teaching across India and abroad have protested the lack of consultation by the Bar Council of India (BCI) in framing legal education norms.
The development assumes significance as the BCI and its state level representatives are agitating against the proposed Higher ..
The Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, will establish a centre for research and development (R&D) on archaeology with a view to facilitate protection of the national heritage.
IIT-Gandhinagar would join hands with other institutes like Pune's Deccan College, Chennai-based Sharma Centre for ..
Amid growing concerns over the lack of English communication skills of engineering students in Kerala, engineering colleges are working on improving their communication skills from the first semester itself.
Cochin University of science and technology registrar Dr A Ramachandran, said, "We intend to ..
A student of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) is all set to undertake a research on the clinical drug trials that have put into question mark the functioning of medical fraternity and regulatory authorities.
Research scholar, Apoorv Khare intends to do a thesis on clinical drug trials in ..
The Task Force formed by the Andhra Pradesh government to check the facilities and quality of education imparted in professional colleges like engineering would begin its work soon.
Deputy chief minister C Damodar Rajanarasimha held a meeting with the members of the Task Force and other officials of ..
Keeping pace with the government's focus on food processing, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou) is offering a new programme — postgraduate diploma in food science and technology at its School of Agriculture.
MK Saluja, director, School of Agriculture, said, "The government has ..
While most of the problems faced by students of Pachaiyappa’s College like lack of drinking water, non functional bathrooms on the campus and shortage of bus passes have been sorted out, they now have a bigger concern.
The teachers in their college, particularly those from the history and ..
The University of Mysore has set up a Learning Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (LRCVC) at its library on Manasagangotri campus here.
Minister for Higher Education C.T. Ravi officially inaugurated it on Friday. The library started functioning two months ago.
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Two key related bills on reforms in higher eduction have been delinked to ensure that the delay in passage of one of them does not affect the other.
The move comes in wake of the inordinate delay in the passage of the Educational Tribunals Bill, 2010, which seeks to establish educational tribunals at the ..