In February, ministry of human resource development (MHRD), announced the launch of around 200 community colleges from the 2013 academic session.
Community Colleges (CC) have been in India for sometime now. However, these colleges have not yet emerged as an alternative system to the traditional ..
The QS world university tour, organised by the team behind the annual QS World University Rankings, will be in New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad at the end of April, to offer overseas undergraduate study-opportunities for students in India.
Mihir Patel, QS's marketing director for India and the Middle East ..
The public health foundation of india (www.phfi.org) has launched an integrated MSc and PhD programme in clinical research and health informatics.
Sanjay P Zodpey, MD, vice-president (North), Public Health Foundation of India and director, Public Health Education, Indian Institute of Public ..
As part of the national aeronautic and space administration's (NASA) interdisciplinary research in earth science programme - impacts of urbanisation on the environment solicitation, nine projects have been approved for funding. One of the teams to receive funding has Atiqur Rehman, reader, department of geography, Jamia ..
A new course in history has been launched at the UG level to offer students the opportunity to investigate practically any period or aspect of history that interests them.
The four-year programme at Shiv Nadar University (SNU) will integrate research and innovation in the classroom experience. "The ..
Indian women still have a long way to go when it comes to attaining socioeconomic equality with men compared to their South Asian counterparts, with only 38 per cent representing the organised workforce, according to a recent survey.
"Women are struggling to attain socioeconomic equality with ..
Claiming that 4,000 posts of teachers were lying vacant in Delhi University for several years, a section of the professors demanded urgent steps to fill the vacancies besides promotion of ad-hoc teachers.
"There are about 4,000 posts of teachers lying vacant for several years and these must be filled ..
CPI National Secretary D Raja has sought Defence Minister A K Antony's intervention in the granting of educational concessions to children of killed, permanently disbaled and missing soldiers and alleged his ministry was "further delaying" the matter by sending it to the Finance Ministry.
In a ..
With the Medical Council of India agreeing to the Odisha government's proposal to increase the number of MBBS seats in each government-run medical college from 150 to 250, their infrastructure would also be developed.
"Since MCI has agreed to increase the number of seats, infrastructure will be ..
The Jamia Hamdard University has began its admissions process for various undergraduate programmes for the academic session 2013-14, it announced Saturday.
The prospectus and application forms for all professional and non-professional courses offered by various faculties and centres of Jamia Millia ..