With the focus on helping India build up its community colleges, a senior US official is visiting the country to enhance an educational partnership between the two countries.
The US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Tara Sonenshine, during her three-day visit beginning ..
Vice-chancellor of L N Mishra Mithila University, Samrendra Pratap Singh has won the national award for eminent educationist.
He received the award at Hyderabad on February 3 last during Indo-American Educational Expo, university sources said.
The VC said the award was an achievement for ..
India is witnessing a decline in standards in the quality of higher education and the trend needs to be reversed, President Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday.
Addressing a conference of vice-chancellors of central universities, Mukherjee also said that universities should not only provide knowledge and skills ..
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said the government will work to remove imbalances and streamline equity-related schemes in higher education. "We will keep in view concerns for equity. We will work to remove imbalances across states, across regions and across sections of society. We will streamline our ..
In an effort to safeguard interests of overseas job aspirants, the Press Council of India has issued guidelines to regulate the procedure followed by companies for advertising overseas vacancies in newspapers.
Union Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs had requested the Council to issue guidelines for ..
Researchers have found scientific evidence to confirm that chewing gum can speed up thinking and make you more alert.
A new study reported in the journal Brain and Cognition found that reaction times are up to 10 per cent faster while chewing gum, and that as many as eight different areas of the brain are ..
Technology giant IBM said it has partnered with Galgotias University for an MBA programme in Business Analytics to help organisations build high quality skilled resources in areas of managerial decision making and strategy.
The curriculum of the programme has been developed jointly for better industry ..
A dusty box of books discarded at the bottom of a cupboard in a school physics laboratory in the UK has turned out to be the prized work of scientist Sir Isaac Newton, containing his thoughts on principles of gravity.
The textbooks, which were unearthed at Newcastle-under-Lyme School, Staffordshire, are ..
The Tibetan-government-in-exile today said the Dalai Lama should be the "main component" in the revival of Nalanda University and does not have any objection to Chinese participation in it.
"The Prime Minister of Tibetan Government-in-Exile" Lobsang Sangay said the Dalai Lama is a ..
Builders Association of India (BAI) has asked Centre to release a portion of Rs 7,000 core collected as labour cess, emphasising on the urgent need for skilled manpower to increase productivity in realty sector.
BAI Secretary Anand Gupta said, "We have been communicating to the government that there ..