Higher Education News

Australia's prestigious Griffith University has awarded a fellowship to a Kerala researcher to study the ethno-cultural moorings of the diaspora community from the state, which left the shores of Malabar generations ago. Abbas Panakkal, an educationalist from Kerala's Malappuram ...

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohanrao Bhagwat has criticised the country's education system which he claims has been commercialised and the youth are less concerned about the society. "Education in India has been commercialised for which our children have ...

The Minister Human Resource Department (HRD), New Delhi has introduced a Bridge Course for the Indian Students, who have passed their Master's programme from any of the Universities in UK. HRD Minister, Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju, had participated ...

To boost job opportunities in the hill state, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna has said the state government was giving job oriented education to students and claimed to have outdone the previous BJP government in the field of education. ...

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has said his government would soon urge the Centre to approve projects worth Rs 842 crore under Rashtriya Uchhatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) for the period 2013-17. Presiding over a State Higher Education ...

Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) is a standard test which forms a part of academic selection process in most universities across the globe. This may sound very intimidating to you. The very name GRE makes one say, " You need ...

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, came into force from 1st April 2010. The Act laid down a three year time frame to attain various norms and standards as specified in the Schedule ...

The Reliance Foundation announces scholarships to 393 students, including 111 differently-abled, to pursue undergraduate studies. Instituted in 1996, the Dhirubhai Ambani Scholarship Programme has so far given away study scholarships to 10,000 students, including 2,000 differently-abled students, to ...

The turnaround in the growth of Bihar, one of India's poorest and most populous states, was at the centre of a panel discussion at the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE). A new collection of essays titled "The ...

Australia has welcomed a sharp increase in the number of Indians applying for student visas to Australia. India remains the second largest source of overseas students in Australia after China. The latest immigration figures show 4,148 Indians made offshore ...

Stress, in general terms, is expressed when we are overloaded with too many things that need to be accomplished and there is too little time to finish them all. If you are not one of those who don't complain ...

Duke University is offering an online course called "History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education". The 6-week-long course will begin from 27th January 2014. About the Course: This course is designed for anyone concerned with the best ...

What would the majority of people do when they have time to spare in today's world? Well, they are busy accessing one of the many social networking technologies available. Clearly, there has to be some reason why they are so popular. ...

An Indian-origin Cambridge University student has challenged a move by British universities to allow "voluntary" gender segregation at Muslim meetings on campuses across the country. Radha Bhatt has demanded in a legal letter that Universities UK (UUK), which ...