University News

New Delhi February 24: The Central government is taking up a initiative to introduce a new system to grade universities of the country, states a recent communication to the Supreme Court (SC).  The process of framing the requisite criteria ...

London, February 24: Britain's senior business leaders have issued an appeal to the UK government to curb the sharp drop in international students from countries like India. According to statistics released recently by the UK's Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), ...

Gurgaon, February 21: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi said that the youth has to create a new variant of 3D (three-dimension) within their minds for India's development - Dream, Discover and Do. Satyarthi was Friday conferred with a honoary doctorate in ...

New Delhi, February 21:The Information and Broadcasting ministry ( I & B ministry) is proposing to establish the country's first Communication University within three years and a consultation process in this regard will be initiated shortly. As part of the consultation ...

London, February 21: Delaying school entry for children could lead to poorer academic performance, according to a new study. Many parents are keen to hold their children back a year if they were born prematurely or in the summer months, ...

New Delhi, February 19: Facing flak for not seeking approval from AICTE for B.Tech courses being offered by its 24 colleges, Delhi University has directed the principals concerned to do the needful in this regard, with barely a few days remaining ...

Kolkata, February 19: The West Bengal government has decided to set up the first Sanskrit University in the state, said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Wednesday. "I am happy to share with you that we will be setting up a ...

Hyderabad, February 16: In an attempt to revamp the higher education system, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today held a video-conference with academicians and education experts from various top universities in the country. "The video-conference is a first-of-its-kind ...

Guwahati, February 16: Assam government today said it has joined hands with Australia-based Curtin University for development of higher education in the state. According to an official release, the Government of Assam has entered into a collaborative partnership agreement with ...

Amherst (Massachusetts), February 16: The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has banned Iranian nationals from admission to certain graduate programs in a move that school officials say aligns its policy with US sanctions against Iran. The university will no longer ...

When asked to describe his time participating in last summer's Yale Young Global Scholars program (YYGS), Yash Mittal a student at G.D. Goenka Public School in New Delhi said, "I never expected that a fortnight-long educational program would turn out to ...

A 210-room hostel for North East students will be constructed in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said today. Singh, Minister of State for Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), said he had issued instructions ...

Delhi University teachers today demanded the Vice Chancellor's intervention in the issue of around 24 varsity colleges not having AICTE approval for B.Tech courses even as scores of students held a protest in that regard outside its Arts Faculty. "The ...

Gandhinagar, Feb 6: Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel said that her government will establish the Plast India International University in the industrial town of Vapi in South Gujarat to provide skilled manpower for plastics industry. Her announcement came during the ...