A solution to the contentious issue of setting up a Central University in Bihar seems likely as Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today held a luncheon meeting with Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal at his residence here to resolve it. Sources said the two discussed the issue during their meeting and a solution to [...]
With a view to encouraging more differently-abled persons to take up higher education,Centre would soon launch a new ‘Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship’ scheme from this year, Social Welfare and Empowerment Minister Mukul Wasnik said today. “The new Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship would help students with multiple disabilities to pursue higher education. More students should make [...]
The Himachal Pradesh government has announced to provide free uniforms to students upto matriculation level. Over 10 lakh students will benefit from this scheme, in which government would spend around Rs 64 crore, a spokesman of education department said. Known as Atal School Uniform Yojna, the scheme shall be launched on May 9 by BJP [...]
Super 30 Founder and top maths wizard Anand Kumar has claimed that like last year, questions for the IIT-JEE examination were wrong this year also. Anand, whose efforts to help underprivileged students get through the tough competitive examination were recognised world-wide, said the problem had been detected soon after the examination, but it was confirmed [...]
Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined hands to launch an ambitious USD 60 million initiative under which they will offer free online courses to students, a collaboration that will be headed by Indian-origin professor Anant Agarwal. The new online education platform ‘EdX’ would be overseen by a Cambridge-based not-for-profit organization and be [...]
A Singapore-based infrastructure advisory firm has picked up an IIM-Indore’s student on an annual package of Rs 53 lakh. “This international offering was made to a student of a 2010-2012 batch while Europe’s leading investment bank has offered an annual package of Rs 32 lakh to another student,” a spokesman of IIM-Indore said here today [...]
Following an IANS report, the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has seized copies of a book of English alphabets for nursery students that carried violent words such as bomb and ‘chakoo’ (knife) and slapped a show cause notice on the school that had prescribed the book. UP Joint Education Director Vikas Srivastava led the raid to [...]
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has for the first time elected a woman to its influential teacher’s association. S. Chandni Bi, assistant professor of history, has been elected to the powerful executive council of the AMUTA (Aligarh Muslim Unversity Teachers Association), officials said. “It’s a significant development and I hope to further the cause of women’s [...]
To meet its requirement of electricity for laboratories and class rooms and ensure uninterrupted supply, a university in Haryana plans to generate 500 KW electricity through solar devices installed on its buildings, its vice chancellor said Saturday. Murthal-based Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology Vice Chancellor H.S. Chahal said solar energy was being [...]
Visiting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was Friday conferred an honorary degree of doctor of letters at Jamia Millia Islamia here and told his audience that “when I am in India, I am at home”. Recalling his long professional and personal association with India, Ban told a select gathering at the 92-year-old university that his bonds [...]
