Higher Education News

Bangalore: With the impending results of the longest election in the country's history, from 7th April to 12th May 2014 to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha fast approaching, an unanswered question rings in the minds of the citizens of ...

Mumbai: Stressing that it is necessary to provide skilled manpower to businesses coming to the state, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said vocational courses were required in school and higher education syllabus. The state government has also decided ...

New Delhi: Higher education in India is faced with challenges such as degrading quality and corporatisation that need to be addressed at the earliest, said educationists. "Several paradoxes have gripped higher education in our country. There has been ...

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee attended the thirty-sixth annual convocation of Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad on 10th May 2014, Jharkhand. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that development should touch the lives of ...

Washington: With 1,13,813 Indians studying in America, India is second only to China with 2,90,133 students among more than a million international students enrolled in nearly 9,000 US schools, according to a new report. As of April 1, ...

According to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, India stands second in the count of largest number of international students in USA, only after China with a little over 290,000 students. Currently, around 113,800 Indian students are enrolled ...

Mumbai: The US consulate in Mumbai plans to interview more than 1,000 student visa applicants on 28th May 2014, here as a part of the Student Visa Day celebrations, an official said Tuesday. The US consulate will open ...

Berhampur: World Bank is likely to fund the development of higher education sector in Odisha. "World Bank is keen to finance the higher education sector, particularly for improvement in teaching quality, learning and research process and improvement of ...

Young Revolutionary Feathers, a group formed by the Indian students studying in the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), has organised a three-day Sarawak Indian Student Unity (SISU) camp from May 9th to May 11th, 2014. This camp aims to ...

Two Indian students studying in Britain have been selected to represent India at the world's biggest political youth forum to be held in Germany this week. Apurv Gupta and Nusrat Laskar, International Relations students at the University of ...

The diversity of the applicants for the University of South California's Fall 2014 semester has proved that this University is equally preferred by both US and international students. According to a press release from USC, a total of ...

It has been reported that India's student applications to American graduate schools have shot up, while applications from Chinese students have witnessed a fall. The number of overall international student applications is up by 7 percent, with a ...

There has been a noted increase in the number of Indians applying for visas to travel to Netherlands. Majority of the Indians' request for visas stating reasons of business travel, tourism and student-exchange programmes. This increase in applications ...

According to the survey, 84% of students from Delhi, choose their prospectus in India itself. While remaining 16% students movie abroad for higher education. The survey 'Youth Economics: Career Expectations Survey' undertaken by PHD Chamber of Commerce and ...