Higher Education News

Germany's oldest university, Heidel berg University, is introducing new graduate programmes in English. It currently offers nearly 170 programmes at different levels, many of which are taught in German. However, most PhD programmes are delivered in English, drawing hordes of ...

Mangalore, Karnataka: Karnataka State Higher Educational Council has approved a proposal to introduce physical education as one of the optional subjects for students of under-graduate courses in Karnataka. Noting that most colleges do not have infrastructure required to promote sporting ...

Home to some of the best educational institutions, New York boasts of its world-class selection of higher education. The QS World University Rankings featured 7 universities in New York in the 2014-15 world rankings. New York is known for its ...

New York is undoubtedly one of the world's leaders in almost every field imaginable. Be it architecture and arts to finance and higher education, New York has it all. New York city is home to 10 internationally ranked universities. The ...

New York is known as a central station for immigration to the United States. With rich and diverse influx of immigration and with a population of about 8 million, people of all ethnicities and cultures, living and studying in the city ...

Hyderabad, March 14: The Andhra Pradesh Government is making efforts for establishment of 10 top-notch educational institutions, including IIT and IIM, in the state before the beginning of the next academic year. "Efforts are being made for establishment ...

The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2015 employ the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey to provide the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands. A spin-off of the annual Times Higher Education ...

Absence of 'quality' higher education and the country's premier research institutes failing to make to the top 100 global list is forcing Indian students embrace foreign universities. An archival stranglehold over policy stifling any possible innovation is also seen as one ...

New Delhi, March 4: Coming down heavily on the government move to privatise higher education, a group of central university teachers here on Tuesday strongly pitched for state funding of higher education. This was the view of teachers attending a ...

The rotation of auditors mandated by the Companies Act of India and the restriction on the number of chartered accountants hired by a firm, has proved lucrative for commerce graduates. With the Act become stringent, the audit firms are ...

Private engineering colleges across the country are about 30% short of faculty, but premier national institutes aren't in a better place. The average faculty shortage in IITs is 32%, while it is 31% in IIITs, 22% at IIMs and 25% in ...

New Delhi, March 3: The huge cut of 16 per cent in the education sector for 2015-16 has been attributed to the higher tax devolution to the states as has been recommended by the Finance Commission. The Union ...

The Union Budget 2015 saw mixed reactions for the budget in the Education sector. While higher education, skill development and jobs have received more importance, we feel, basic issues in the educational sector have been neglected or have seen very less ...

New Delhi, March 2: The government will set up an authority to administer and monitor scholarship as well educational loan schemes, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said. "With a view to enabling all poor and middle class students to pursue ...