Private equity funds Avigo Capital and Matrix Partners India have invested Rs 100 crore in education service provider Maharana Infrastructure and Professional Services (MIPS), a part of the Kanpur-based group which runs higher education institutes across north and central India .
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State advisory council on rights to free and compulsory education in Manipur has decided not to allow schools, including Catholic schools, to conduct admission test for enrolment of students in pre-primary classes, official sources said on Saturday.
Sources said the council whose chairman is state ..
Minister of State for human resource development Shashi Tharoor Friday said the right to education (RTE) does not apply to nursery admissions.
"The RTE doesn't apply to nursery admissions as the law specifies eight years of compulsory schooling from the age of six to 14. Nursery children are younger ..
In theory, the pre-exam counselling started by the Central Board of Secondary Education, which started today, is meant to ease exam stress among students. However, on Day One of the counselling, which is to conclude on April 17, many students did not get through on the number 1800118004. This is the number students from ..
A two-week Science Academics XLV refresher course in experimental physics organised by the department of physics, Christ Church College for science/engineering colleges and university teachers and few B.Sc III and M.Sc I physics students began in association with Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, on Friday.
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A delegation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers Welfare Association, ( SSATWA) UT, Chandigarh met finance-cum-education secretary V K Singh and gave him a 20 feet long and four feet wide petition signed by more than 300 SSA teachers.
Through the petition, the delegation members asked the education ..
In a fillip to distance learning programmes in the country, the Distance Education Council (DEC) has decided that though students cannot pursue two degree programmes simultaneously, they can pursue two programmes simultaneously through distance or combination of distance and regular modes.
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The Common Entrance Test (CET) for engineering courses will be held according to the state syllabus as the national curriculum for II PUC has been implemented only from 2012-13.
Higher education minister CT Ravi said here on Friday that the decision on the entrance test for medical courses would be taken ..
Mohammad Sadique Idris will get 10 gold medals at the annual convocation of the Lucknow University slated to be held in the third week of February. A student of MSc (Mathematics), Idris secured 83.4% marks -- highest in the post-graduation in all the faculties.
Securing 71.35% marks, Shyam Prakash, ..
Andhra Pradesh will soon have a Sports University, the first of its kind in the country.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, a former cricketer, at a review meeting on development of sports infrastructure in the state, directed the Sports Department to "go ahead" with the proposal for setting up ..