Even as the National Accreditation Regulatory Authority Bill for higher education remains to be passed by Parliament, the country's first private accreditation body came into being on Friday.
Registered as a non-profit council, the Indian Centre for Assessment and Accreditation (ICAA), with Manipal ..
Hoping for enhanced collaborations and partnerships with Indian institutions in healthcare, renewable resources and education Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) president L Rafael Reif on Friday said that these were important global challenges that had to be addressed together.
Reif, who is in ..
Experts at a national conference organised in the city to discuss the declining interest in science education, said, the current teaching methods need to be revamped with more practicals and experiments to inculcate "scientific temper" among students.
Inaugurating the two-day event that began ..
Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has cancelled 35 branches of engineering in affiliated technical colleges including 22 branches of Electronics and Communication. On the other hand, 85 new branches have been started. Most of the new branches approved are of Masters of Engineering (ME).
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The government has sanctioned 19.82 lakh posts for teachers to various states and union territories under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme.
Government has also requested state governments to expedite recruitment of teachers as well as carry out the redeployment of existing teachers, a press release ..
The study found that women are more likely to consider the rights of others and to take a cooperative approach to decision-making, which ultimately results in better performance for their companies.
The research, which surveyed more than 600 board directors, revealed that male directors, who made up 75 ..
Officiating dean of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) Prof Ajay Pandey would be the interim director of the premier B-school till the announcement of the new name for the post by Union HRD Ministry.
Pandey would take over from the outgoing IIM-A director Samir Barua, whose term expires on ..
City based Park Global School will launch a sports academy to nurture budding talent in various sports disciplines.
Anusha R, CEO, Park Instiutions, told reporters, the Academy would start functioning from the 2013-14 academic year and students would be trained in various sports like basketball, football, ..
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation decided to reimburse the amount of money parents spent in buying notebooks for children studying in the schools run by it after it failed to provide the students with them during the academic year 2012-13.
This comes just days after the issue rocked the North Delhi ..
Lt Gen (retd) Zameeruddin Shah, Vice Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University, said, the minimum attendance needed for a student to appear in AMU examinations has been reduced to 65 per cent from the earlier 75 per cent.
"This year I have accepted 65 per cent minimum attendance but I am cautioning you ..