Higher Education News

Jaipur, Jan 16: Educationists from 22 states, including Vice Chancellors of 13 universities, will discuss a new policy framework for education during a two-day international conference titled "Samarth Shiksha, Samarth Bharat" beginning January 17. Union Minister for Environment ...

Berhampur, Jan 13: Odisha government has taken initiative for overhauling the entire higher education system with the introduction of job-oriented vocational courses and choice-based credit system (CBS) in undergraduate classes. The courses would be introduced from next academic session, state's ...

Agartala, January 9: The Left Front government will set up a state university in Tripura and this will be taken up in the budget session of the assembly beginning Feb 16, a minister said here Thursday. "A bill to set up ...

New Delhi, Jan 7: Taking up a subject of choice and migrating seamlessly from one university to another is set to become a reality from the coming academic session across the country as almost all the states today "unanimously" decided to ...

New Delhi, January 5: The immense demographic dividend and potential of the youth can be productively channelized for growth and development of the country only when the higher education system is provided a "job orientation", Health Minister J.P. Nadda said Saturday. ...

Though the IIT's have not made it to the top 200 in most of the international university rankings, they remain to be the first choice when it comes to undergraduate education for the children of overseas Indians returning home, particularly IIT ...

Toronto, December 26: Canada needs structural reforms in its immigration policies to attract foreign students and must consider granting them permanent residency rights, a top official of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce has said. "The existing Canadian immigration policies are ...

The Advanced Placement Program (AP), run by the College Board (makers of the SAT) is a rigorous academic program that gives motivated high school students the opportunity to pursue university-level studies, while they are still in school. AP courses and exams ...

UK is considered to have some of the best educational institutions in the world and is the second most favorite educational destination, just after USA. With the new plans from the UK Home Secretary that will force new graduates to ...

As universities from the West to East draw students from India, now Israel is emerging to be another major destination for India students. With a few of its universities ranked among the top 200, it is the latest player in ...

New Delhi, December 11: Parliament Wednesday passed a bill to convert three Schools of Planning and Architecture into centres of excellence and enable them to confer degrees on students. The School of Planning and Architecture Bill, 2014, which has ...

The M.A in Addiction Studies is a formal exploration of addictions from a variety of academic and scientific perspectives: sociological, cultural, psychological, anthropological, and psychoanalytic. The aim is to educate students so that they can carry out research in ...

Addis Ababa, December 10: As the Ethiopian government works towards revitalising higher education to meet growing demand by boosting investment in education under the country's Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP), India, with its long experience in the education sector, could help ...

Nearly 40% slots for foreign students unused for the past three years due to poor diplomacy and lack of coordination between MHRD, Finance and MEA. Out of the 3,465 scholarship slots offered by the union government to foreign students for pursuing ...