Higher Education News

A senior delegation from Punjab Technical University (PTU) and its affiliated colleges are currently on a two week-long visit to the USA and Canada to forge research and educational collaborations between India and North America universities. These collaborations will be ...

Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) is all set to host Najah, the largest education, training and careers exhibition in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), from Tuesday. The seventh annual Najah exhibition, organised under the patronage of UAE's Minister of ...

President Barack Obama who called on education reforms to prepare Americans for a global economy, where jobs can go anywhere said, "Billions of people from countries like India and China are striving hard to out-educate Americans in Mathematics and Technology." ...

Mahendra, 21, lives in one of the countless slums in and around Delhi. His father is a gardener and his mother a housemaid. Though passionate about computers and technology, the young man could only fantasise about becoming a software engineer - ...

China attaches great importance to educational development of the whole nation and lifelong learning, said Vice Premier Liu Yandong here Monday. He made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Learning Cities, organised by the United ...

President Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday that higher education can no longer be continued in a routine fashion. The curriculum should motivate students to take up research and innovation, he added. "Universities need to develop in their students a scientific temper ...

The state government of Maharashtra has appointed new commissioner for education, who is an IAS level officer. He will be heading the education department, under whom all the other eight directorates will be functioning. Keeping in mind the lack of ...

5. What is your opinion about providing free quality education to the needy and deserving learners; as working towards eradication of illiteracy in India? Rajul: I feel today there are many options for needy and deserving learners. Not just ...

1. Being India's first business school(Sunstone Business School) to launch open courses in management, what are your major challenges in terms of reaching out to those unreached groups of students in India, considering the volume of population and the ever growing ...

Sunstone Business School Open Courses is India's first Open Courses (MOOC) in management. This is Sunstone's effort to open up the knowledge to a larger community and build a continuous and flexible learning environment. For huge working professional population, the ...

Overseas education is today the synonym of globalisation. In today's fast changing corporate world, International Education has become a necessity rather than a luxury. The world places high demands of cultural adaptability on the young people today. Imagine staying in ...

Making NSS a credit based elective course in higher education was taken up for consideration. This was an agenda item of the Department of Youth Affairs. It was decided that UGC and AICTE would explore to implement from ...

The CABE Committee Report on National Mission on Teachers and Teaching was presented. CABE placed on record its appreciation for the committee chaired by Hon'ble MOS, Dr. Shashi Tharoor. The major recommendations made in the Committee Report were ...

In higher Education, the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) has been approved by the Cabinet. A detailed presentation on the Mission giving the various components under this Mission and the roll out in the coming years was presented before CABE. ...