Chennai: With an aim to help farmers with the new farming technology, alumni of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, have come forward to mentor some of them to increase their yield.
Mr V. Varadarajan, president of IIT Madras Alumni Association (IITMAA), said there were ..
Mumbai: GlobalScholar (USA), which manages one of the world's largest online learning portals (www.globalscholar.com) and EducationWorld, India's sole education news and analysis magazine, invite nominations for the GlobalScholar-EducationWorld Young Achievers Award 2009.
The awards aim to acknowledge and ..
Chennai: Private schools opposing the uniform school education system have threatened to approach the court to stop the state government from implementing the system.
The Tamil Nadu Nursery, Primary and Matriculation Schools Association held a demonstration here on Friday to draw ..
Students may soon get to change streams when they go from school to college. The HRD Ministry is keen on a national testing scheme that would allow students to sit for national-level exams in subjects of their choice after Class 12, giving them a second chance to pursue their area of interest.
For ..
Khorana Scholarships are available for Indian students to undertake research in biotechnology for 10 weeks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,Govt of India and IUSSTF
Eligibility: BTech/ MTech/ MSc students.
To apply: Visit www.biochem.wisc.edu/faculty/ansari/
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Chennai: The Madras varsity has decided to scrap the system of providing optical mark recognition (OMR) in the semester examination, as it has created much confusion.
Prof G. Thiruvasagam, vice-chancellor, said that the university would also announce the date of declaration of results along with the exam ..
Washington: Some of the best American universities and educational institutes are 'extremely interested' in coming to India, HRD Minister, Kapil Sibal,said.
'They are not only extremely interested, but they are also proactive in expressing their hope that the law (in India) would be put in place very soon ..
Nagpur: Everybody felt that the Indian school education system needed radical changes. But nobody expected things to happen at lightning pace.
Every other day, newspapers across the country have been carrying announcements by either the CBSE board or the Union human resources minister Kapil Sibal. Even the ..
Kolkata: Veta, a spoken English training academy and a brand owned by Amoha Education (P) Ltd has been awarded as the 'International franchisee of the year 2009' by the Franchising & Licensing Association (FLA) in Singapore.
The FLA Awards is being held for the fifth time, and is a highly ..
Hyderabad: Academic Staff College, University of Hyderabad is organising a refresher course in Life Sciences from November 20 to December 11.
Lecturers from degree colleges and universities who are teaching Life Sciences, botany, zoology, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics and biotechnology are eligible for ..