University News

New Delhi, Dec 24: University students may soon be receiving tips from medal-winning sports persons about the reasons behind their success that would inspire them and help them build qualities like discipline and perseverance. The University Grants Commission (UGC), pushing ...

New Delhi, Dec 19: UGC has asked universities across the country to observe December 25 as 'Good Governance Day' amid the controversy over organising events on the occasion which requires physical presence of students on campus on Christmas. However, in ...

London, Dec 19: Oxford University has nudged past its traditional rival Cambridge by being named Britain's best research university. The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), to be released, is used as a basis for government funding allocation and has had an ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 18: Congress-led UDF government in Kerala has decided to establish an International Arabic University in the state. Replying to a calling attention motion in the assembly to take steps to set up the Arabic University, Education Minister P ...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has framed guidelines for adoption of Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS) for all undergraduate and postgraduate level degree, diploma and certificate programmes under the credit system awarded by Central, State and Deemed to be Universities. The ...

Chandigarh, Dec 15: Haryana government has announced to set up Kalpana Chawla Medical University at 100 acres of land in Karnal district. The Director of Kalpana Chawla Medical College would present next month a concept paper on the proposed university which ...

Under the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), it is envisaged to provide 15-20 broadband connections for 512 Kbps speed each to over 25000+ colleges including 2000 polytechnics in the country and 1 Gbps optical fibre connectivity ...

Coimbatore, Dec 10: Kerala Governor, Justice P Sathasivam today said ragging in educational institutions has adversely impacted educational standards and has to be curbed with an iron hand and suggested that each institute show zero tolerance for the menace. Not ...

New Delhi, Dec 5: Taking note of a regulation issued by Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, recently with alleged overtones of racism, UGC has asked all varsities and institutes across the country to delete such clauses from their regulations which imply racial or ...

Bhubaneswar, Dec 01: In an apparent bid to pacify the ongoing agitation demanding establishment of an IIM in western Odisha, the state government has announced setting up an open university at Sambalpur. An announcement in this regard was made by ...

Hyderabad, Nov 28: Andhra Pradesh government is planning to introduce Japanese in one of the universities as Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu woos large scale investments from Asia's second largest economy. Naidu on the fourth day of his Japan tour ...

New Delhi, Nov 28: Indian students value digital capabilities at universities more than their peers in Australia, Singapore, the UK, and the US, says a report. According to a five-country survey by Accenture, 85% of college-bound students said that digital ...

Machilipatnam, Nov 24: A Marine University will be soon opened in Andhra Pradesh, Minister for Excise and BC Welfare K Ravindra said. Speaking on the occasion of World Fisheries Day, Ravindra said the state would get a Marine University to ...

The Minister for Universities, Science and Cities, Greg Clark has launched a new UK-wide campaign to support 25,000 UK students visit India over the next five years. The campaign, ‘Generation UK-India', aims to create a new generation of ...