Less than one per cent of students pursuing higher studies opt for research oriented courses, the Rajya Sabha was informed.
"Out of the total enrolments in higher education, The percentage of students enrolling in the field of research is about 0.79 per cent," Minister of State in Human Resource ..
The International Institute of Information and Technology (IIIT), Bhubaneswar will soon be accorded unitary university status with the passing of IIIT-Bhubaneswar Bill-2013 in the Odisha Assembly.
The Bill, passed last night, has provisions saying that the university will work closely with the ..
For those having cleared Civil Services preliminary exam, Civil Services (Main) exam will be held from 1st December to 5th December, 2013.
Detailed schedule of the exams will be available to the qualified candidates along with their e-admit card.
Candidates need to fill up an online ..
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa inaugurated a law school in her constituency Srirangam and a government medical college in Thiruvannamalai district.
According to an official statement, the Tamil Nadu National Law School will admit 100 students during the academic year 2013-14, including 10 ..
Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the Chinese hamster, paving way for advances in the pharmaceutical industry.
The Chinese hamster supplies the cell cultures used by the pharmaceutical industry to produce biopharmaceutical products such as antibodies used in medicine.
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Innovation centres will be set up across the country to provide hands-on learning opportunity to school and college students, Sam Pitroda said.
The aim of these hubs would be to provide students of class 5th to 8th a hands-on learning environment, where they could de-construct, re-construct or ..
Arunachal Pradesh government has signed an MOU with the Union Defence Ministry to provide free of cost land for establishment of the National Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports (NIMAS) at Dirang in West Kameng district of the state.
NIMAS, an institute of Defence Ministry, ..
A 10-day Edinburgh International Science Festival (EISF) will be held at the Bharatiya City complex here from Aug 30.
It is primarily for school and college students with a slew of programmes, workshops and cultural events.
Being held for the first time in India, the fest will have 15 ..
More libraries are required in the country to inculcate reading habit among poor children who cannot afford books, Central Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar said here on Friday.
"Libraries are definitely needed in this country because we are still a poor country. Many of poor children cannot ..
Aiming to take education to every doorstep, Union HRD minister M M Pallam Raju on Thursday said they intend to leverage the broadband network by embracing the 'Massive Open Online Courses' (MOOC) programme in a big way.
"...to make education more accessible, we have in the horizon MOOC, leveraging on ..