| NIOS Declares Results, Invites Complaints |
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PATNA: Altogether 61% students have cleared higher secondary and 51% students’ secondary school examinations of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) in Bihar. NIOS regional director Sanjay... |
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| Online DU admission hampered by website glitches |
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NEW DELHI: Thousands of students who were about to register online for the new four-year undergraduate course with Delhi University were not able to do so, as the university website suffered a technical... |
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| UGC faces flak for withdrawing scheme for 32 Centres for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies |
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NEW DELHI: National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) has petitioned the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) against the decision of the University Grants Commission (UGC) to withdraw... |
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| Medical Council of India nod for 50 more MBBS seats at Gandhi Medical College |
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HYDERABAD: In a decision that will boost medical education in the state, the Medical Council of India (MCI) gave its nod to increase MBBS seats in two state-run colleges, weeks after coming down heavily... |
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| JPNAIIMS to double MBBS intake to 100 |
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PATNA: JPNAIIMS is all set to double the intake of students into its MBBS course to 100 this year from 50 last year. The institute had admitted its first batch of MBBS students last year. According to... |
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| CBSE class XII results: Andaman records 69.22 per cent pass |
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PORT BLAIR: Andaman and Nicobar Islands have recorded an overall pass percentage of 69.22 in Class XII CBSE exam with students of four schools securing 100 per cent success, a report said on Thursday.... |
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| Delhi University: Too much Marx in sociology syllabus? |
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NEW DELHI: While passing the syllabi of final two courses, Delhi University\'s Academic Council on Tuesday asked the sociology department to revise their syllabus as some members believed it included... |
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| CBSE Class XII Results Out, Girls Again Outshine Boys |
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NEW DELHI: Over 82 per cent students on Monday cleared the 2013 Class XII CBSE examinations, with girls once again outshining the boys and the Chennai region beating others in the overall pass percentage.... |
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| Delhi University librarian introduces IT course |
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NEW DELHI: The foundation course, Building Mathematical Ability, was introduced by Delhi University vice-chancellor Dinesh Singh, himself a mathematician, at the orientation programme for teachers of... |
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| St Stephen's College's Registration Online |
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NEW DELHI: The registration process of St Stephen\'s College for the 2013-14 academic session will be fully online. It will start from June 1. There will be an increased intake in honours courses for... |
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| First Yoga University in the Country to come up in Gujarat |
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AHMEDABAD: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate Lakulish Yoga University, claimed to be the first ever such private sector self-financed institution in the country, on May 23, at... |
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| Students of private aided schools no better than BMC counterparts, Study |
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22% of classes I to VII students in Mumbai\'s civic schools can either not read their language of instruction or at the most recognize alphabets. The same percentage of standard I-VII students in the... |
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| Online Registration for Engineering Admission Postponed |
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AHMEDABAD: The online registration for admission in engineering colleges scheduled to begin from today has been postponed. It will now begin from Friday. Meanwhile, 15,900-odd booklets and PIN were sold... |
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| French Lawmakers Approve Plan to Introduce More Courses in English at Universities |
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PARIS: France\'s lower house on Thursday approved a plan to introduce more courses in English at universities despite critics alleging it will undermine efforts to promote French. A majority of lawmakers... |
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| Education Loan Defaults, Govt. Proposes 'Credit Guarantee Fund' |
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NEW DELHI: The government has proposed to set up a \'credit guarantee fund\' to address cases of education loan defaults, in a move which could enhance the flow of assistance to students. While a scheme... |
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| Entrance Results of MBBS, PG Medical Yet to Be Declared |
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MUMBAI: The National Board of Examination (NBE) is likely to declare the post-graduate entrance results for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-PG) "shortly". Two days after the... |
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| SRM University to Launch 11 New Courses This Year |
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CHENNAI: SRM University is set to launch 11 new courses this academic year. The university will also start dual degree and integrated courses. Vice-chancellor M Ponnavaiko on Thursday said two four-year... |
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| Patna University to Sign MoU With Varsity in Texas |
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PATNA: Patna University (PU) is likely to sign an MoU with Sam Houston State University, Texas, for academic exchange and cooperation. The groundwork for this exchange programme has been done by the... |
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| IGNOU May Allow Students to Write Exams in Marathi |
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PUNE: The Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU) may introduce Marathi as a medium for writing exams starting next year. The option to write exams in Marathi will come as a huge relief to rural students,... |
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| Direct Admission of Students Abroad (DASA) 2013- 14 |
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| Admission open for Foreign Nationals/Persons of Indian Origin/Non-Resident Indians under DASA Scheme for Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes (B.Tech., B.Arch., M.Tech., and MBA) for the Academic... |
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| No Recognition of Medical Courses after July 15: SC |
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court has fixed a deadline for medical and dental councils to grant recognition and approval for new courses. A bench of justice AK Patnaik and justice Swatanter Kumar said: “The... |
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| Now, you can pay your Toefl iBT fees in Indian rupees |
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| Students now have the option to use Indian rupees as a payment method for the Toefl iBT fees. The new payment choice is available to test takers by selecting the credit card option through the Toefl online... |
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| GRE Candidates can now choose which scores to send to institutes |
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| After introducing the GRE (Graduate Record Examination) revised general test, the GRE programmme is now launching the score select option as one more enhancement. With the score select option which is... |
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| JNU Entrance Test Admit Card Uploaded On University Website |
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| Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, has uploaded on its websites the admit cards for candidates appearing in the JNU and combined biotechnology entrance examination scheduled for may 22, 23, 24 and... |
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| 19% of Engineering, B-School seats vacant last year |
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About 19% seats in engineering colleges and business schools across the country remained unoccupied in the 2011-12 academic year, the government said on Wednesday. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha,... |
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| 200 universities across India in next 5 years |
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Higher education in the country is set to get a boost with the HRD ministry finalising plans worth Rs. 80,000 crore inorder to improve access to colleges and universities. The UPA government has embarked... |
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| Free Engineering, Medical Education for Girls in UP Colleges |
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| Lucknow: Free engineering and medical education would be given to girls in government Colleges in Uttar Pradesh. CM Akhilesh Yadav announced on Thursday. He made the announcement while addressing an event... |
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| IITs lift curtain, Reveal JEE Cut-Off Marks |
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| Entrance Parents hail move, teachers say it will help students prepare for exam
New Delhi: the Indian Institutes of Technology have finally emerged from their veil of secrecy revealing the cut-off... |
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| Delhi University Meta College to Mix-N-Match Subjects |
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New Delhi: From this July, Delhi University is likely to introduce a “meta college’’ that allows small batches of students to mix and match courses that interest them from options available... |
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| Gangaram Hospital to Launch a Post-Graduate Institute |
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| New Delhi: To boost research and aid post-graduate education, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) is launching Ganga Ram Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (GRIPMER) on Sunday. “We... |
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| Learning About Mother Nature in Classrooms |
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How about studying environmental economics? Or doing a BTech in environmental engineering? The spectrum of courses that have direct or indirect link with environment has increased over the years. More... |
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| Indian engineers at bottom of BRIC layer: Study |
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A study by California\'s Stanford University has shown that among the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - Indian engineers are the least prepared to play a leading role in the global... |
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| Admission Process Kicks Off in Jamia |
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| NEW DELHI: Jamia Millia Islamia is going to begin its admission process for the 2012-13 academic session from Wednesday, while entrance examinations for various courses will start from the last week of... |
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| Soon, Indian B.Tech degrees may be recognized abroad |
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Engineers with undergraduate degrees will find it easier to seek jobs and opportunities for higher studies abroad from 2012, if India’s bid to join the elite Washington Accord for international... |
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| Admission: IITs up ante against govt. proposals |
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Students and faculties of IITs have opposed the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry’s proposal to change the format of IIT-JEE examination from 2013 and give 40% weightage to board examination... |
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| Pitroda Calls For Rejig of 'Obsolete' Education |
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| Educational Institutions, not only in India, but all over the world are obsolete. We need to restructure the system.
A complete restructuring of the education sector and inclusive growth for the... |
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| KVs get a Nifty makeover |
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| Designer Uniforms to Mark Golden Jubilee of Schools
Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) students are set to get a makeover from the next academic year. The National Institute of Fashion Design (NIFT) is designing... |
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| Rs. 64 Lakh foreign offer crowns IIFT placements this year |
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| Job offers from international companies are flooding Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) as the B-school got 100% placements for this year’s batch of 204. The highest international offer... |
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| No Long Queues, DU Admissions to go online |
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| Delhi University aspirants needn’t run around or even be in the city to apply to colleges of their choice this summer. What’s more, an SMS will tell them which colleges they have made it to. If... |
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| CET limited to IITs, a few other colleges |
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| The government’s plan to introduce a common national examination for undergraduate engineering courses across the country will have to be curtailed with the test applicable only for central technical... |
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| AICTE may shut door on new colleges |
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| With supply outstripping demand for engineering and management seats, the country may stop new professional colleges coming up from 2014. This firm stand was taken recently at a meeting of the All-India... |
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| 2cr Indian kids study in English-medium schools |
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| The last eight years have seen a staggering rise in the number of children studying in English-medium schools across the country. Data on school enrolment for 2010-11 shows that, for the first time, the... |
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| Dream Vocation |
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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life, said Confucius, the famous Chinese philosopher. Successful people, from different walks of life, endorse this... |
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| NEET to Roll out from- 2013 |
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| New Delhi: The first ever single eligibility-cum-entrance examination for MBBS and post-graduate medical courses will now be rolled out from 2013. This was indicated by the Union health ministry in a meeting... |
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| Heave a Sigh as NEET 2012 Cancelled |
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| National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), a single national level entrance test for admissions to MBBS and dental undergraduate courses in all medical colleges of India will not be held in 2012. Central... |
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| Rajasthan Scrapped MAT from 2013 |
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| The Department of Technical Education (DTE) has now decided to scrap Rajasthan Management Aptitude Test (RMAT) conducted by Rajasthan Technical University (RTU) from 2013. DTE, Rajasthan has now decided... |
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| Nursery School Admissions 2012- 2013 in Delhi Gurgaon Noida NCR |
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| Nursery Admissions Guidelines for Academic Year 2012- 13 Announced By Delhi Govt.
New Delhi, December 17: Ending anxiety of parents, the Delhi government today announced guidelines for admissions... |
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| AIPMT 2012, CBSE announces exam dates |
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| New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education has announced the dates for the All Indian Pre-Medical/ Pre-Dental (AIPMT) entrance examinations on Tuesday. The preliminary exams will... |
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| SC raps govt, MCI on entrance test |
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday embarrassed the government and Medical Council of India (MCI) by forcing them to withdraw their pleas for one-year deferment of the first ever National Eligibility-cum-Entrance... |
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| Nursery admission from Jan 2, common EWS form |
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| New Delhi: The admission process for pre-school, pre-primary and class I for the academic session 2012-13 will start from January 2. In a notification issued on Friday, the Directorate of Education (DoE),... |
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| DU Mulls Ways to Make Cutoffs Realistic |
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| New Delhi: The Delhi University admission process is set to change again. After experimenting with admissions without forms this year, which led to crazy cutoffs and repeated lists, the varsity... |
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| GMAT to Debut with New Format in June 2012 |
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| Change After 17 Years, Will Measure New Skills
Bangalore: If you want to ace GMAT - the key to the world\'s best B-schools - it\'s time you start honing your visual interpretation, too. The Graduate... |
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| Nursery Application Forms From January 2 |
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| New Delhi: Parents anxiously waiting for nursery admissions to begin have less than a month to prepare. The pre-admission forms for nursery will be available between January 2 and 16... |
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| Manage it |
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| Management students and institutes have realized the importance of managing stress in real business environment
Are there moments when you’ve felt dizzy trying to switch gears between the... |
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| M for Management |
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| An MBA is the most coveted degree across the world. It opens the doors to many opportunities in management across various sectors
It’s no more just about finance, banking and Human Resources.... |
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| The leader in you |
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| Business is aspiration in life and not just a job to make your living. A career in business impacts life and perhaps changes your life. A sales man works to make living and an aspiring business manager... |
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| IIT reforms leave problems of vacant seats unaddressed |
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| New Delhi: The reforms initiated by the Joint Admission Board (JAB) of IIT for the prestigious Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) have glossed over a couple of key issues. Many seats remain vacant and some... |
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| A new chapter |
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| Management education is the most significant driver for young men and women for a successful and ambitious career – after engineering and medical education.
The focus of the curriculum has... |
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| Why do an MBA? |
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| Employers are increasingly using the MBA degree as a screening tool in hiring. For highly ranked consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company and the search engine giant Google, MBA graduating classes... |
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| Thinking out-of-the-box |
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| B-Schools need to have a bold new vision in developing and delivery mechanism of the curriculum. B-schools educate and train for management practices. The students should undergo a experience that would... |
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| US Students in India up 45% this year |
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| Chennai: The number of US students coming to India this year has jumped nearly 45% with more Americans opting for short-term courses - a semester or a subject with a popular professor or college. But their... |
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| Register for Online AIEEE by December, 31 |
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| New Delhi: CBSE will conduct AIEEE offline on April 29 next year while its online version for admission to BE/BTech is going to be held from May 7 to 26. The online test will be conducted... |
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| India Presence |
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| The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, is opening offices in New Delhi and Bangalore to establish partnerships with universities and research institutions in India. UBC\'s New Delhi office... |
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| PG Exams Decentralized |
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| Delhi University has decided to decentralize its PG exams from this year. Vishakha Sharma reports
The postgraduate examinations in Delhi University (DU) will be decentralized from the next semester... |
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| Online registration for IIT JEE 2012 from today |
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| NEW DELHI: The online registration for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2012 is starting on Monday. Aspiring students can log on to the IIT website to fill up the form for JEE, which will be held on April... |
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| CAT 2011 Starts Today |
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| NEW DELHI: The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 will start on Saturday. As many as 2.05 lakh aspirants have registered for the computer-based test to be conducted jointly by the Indian Institutes... |
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| 35% the Cut-off for Entry to IITs |
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| NEW DELHI: Candidates aspiring to crack JEE 2012 will have to score at least 10% marks in each of the three subjects and a minimum aggregate of 35% to figure on the common rank list for admission to IITs.
The Joint... |
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| PSUs to Recruit on GATE Score |
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| NEW DELHI: The maharatna and the navratna PSUs have decided to recruit fresh graduates of various engineering colleges based on their Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) score from next year\'s... |
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| Govt. Decided No Common PG Medical Entrance Test |
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The Government has decided not to hold the common PG medical entrance test next year as proposed earlier, citing lack of resources and expertise. The National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) for all... |
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| E-Learning in DU Colleges Likely By Next Month |
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| New Delhi, October 8
Delhi University\'s ambitious plan of launching the "Virtual Learning Environment" - an online portal to host e-lessons and other learning materials for its students... |
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| 2.05 Lakh Aspirants Registered For Cat 2011 |
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| Registrations for the Common Admission Test (CAT), 2011, the Gateway to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), were marginally up at 2.05 lakh compared with 2.04 lakh in 2010.The cities... |
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| JEE Could Be In New Format In 2013 |
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| The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are all set to bring a whole new change in the pattern of Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) organised every year across the country. The changed exam pattern would be... |
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| DU Gets Court Notice For Not Holding Supplementary Exams |
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| New Delhi: Delhi high court has issued a notice to Delhi University seeking its reply on a petition filed by a law student for direction to hold supplementary examination in each semester in order... |
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| No Negative Marking in All-India MBBS Exam |
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| NEW DELHI: An expert committee constituted to look into modalities of the proposed single entrance test for admission to all MBBS courses across India has recommended that there should be no negative marking... |
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| Madras HC Raps Bank on Education Loan |
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| CHENNAI: Education loan includes full hostel fee and banks cannot question its quantum unless they suspect its authenticity, the Madras high court has ruled.
The court issued the ruling... |
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| Convert Vacant OBC seats into General: HC to DU |
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| The Delhi high court has directed DU to convert 50 unfulfilled OBC seats into general category in the LLB course for the academic year 2011-2012 and give admission to students who are on the waiting list.... |
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| Supreme Court Says, No To Joint MED-ENGG Exam |
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| The Supreme Court on Friday, Sep 24, 2011, Postponed an ambitious student-friendly initiative from the HRD ministry through the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) proposing to integrate... |
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| 17 Years More To Reach 1DOC : 1000Person |
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| India will take at least 17 more years before it can reach the World Health Organization\'s (WHO) recommended norm of one doctor per 1,000 people.
The Planning Commission\'s high-level expert group... |
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| 'Single-test policy for engineering colleges flawed' |
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NEW DELHI: An analysis of the T Ramaswami committee report on JEE reforms, proposing a single entrance test for all engineering colleges (including IITs, NITs and private institutions) throughout the... |
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| Number of Students Applying for Educational Loans Doubles in 5 Years. |
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| CHENNAI: The number of students applying for educational loans across the country has doubled in the last five years; data compiled by the Indian Banks\' Association has shown. The data,... |
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| MBA Admission in IITs on CAT Scores |
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| For the first time ever, all the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have jointly decided to discontinue the Joint Management Entrance Test(JMET) that they conduct for Admissions to their... |
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| Single Test for MBA Admissions, From 2013 |
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To reduce the Tension of giving so many Entrance Exams to get Admission into various Management Institutions across the country, the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has decided to conduct... |
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| Pilot Licence Exams Go Online |
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| New Delhi: the fake pilots licence scam has had a positive fallout. For the first time in India. Some 1,000 pilots wanting to be commanders are taking their airline transport pilot licence exams online.... |
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| AIEEE to Go Online From 2012 |
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| After CAT its, time for time All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE) scheduled to be held nationwide on April 29, 2012, which will go online.
Though the Online mode was an option this... |
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| CBSE Board Exam Papers Now To Be Public |
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| Students appearing for CBSE board exams may soon get to see their answer sheets online. The Human Resource Development ministry is considering this following the Supreme Court\'s direction to provide copies... |
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| IIM- Lucknow Biz Centre |
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IIM Lucknow has announced that it has set up a new Centre of Excellence for Business Sustainability (CEBS). The centre will have a multi-disciplinary, collaborative body of experts committed to... |
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| The new Severa College of Architecture campus in Gurgaon, Haryana |
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| The new Severa College of Architecture campus in Farrukhnagar, Gurgaon, was inaugurated by the district’s commissioner, T.K. Sharma. The college will be the first under Maharshi Dayanand University... |
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| Univs must follow verdict on OBC cut-off |
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| The Supreme Court on Friday said central universities must follow the five-judge constitution bench\'s ruling that the gap between cut-off marks for OBC students and that for general category students... |
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| Get into IIM after Class 12: Indore gears up for a 5-year course |
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Now, IIM aspirants don\'t have to wait to get a bachelor\'s degree before taking the entrance test; at least a few can hope to step into India\'s top management school right after school. The... |
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| JNU caters mainly to UP, Bihar students, Says CAG |
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Jawaharlal Nehru University, set up as a centre for academic excellence for the whole country, mainly caters to students from UP and Bihar. This has come out in the draft performance audit report... |
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| Rohtak PGI gets 50 more MBBS seats |
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| Rohtak, May 14
The total intake of students five -year MBBS course in Pt BDS Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) has been increased to 200 from the new academic session of 2011-12.
This... |
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| DU CATE tests on same day |
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| NEW DELHI: This year, the entrance test for BA (honours) English and the common test for admission to BBS, BBE and BFIA will be conducted on the same day.
While the common... |
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| Med test paper lifted from NET |
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| Raipur : An Internet search by a student has blown the cover plagiarized and possibly leaked questions papers of an entrance test held for Chhattisgarh government medical colleges.
Kritika, a Class... |
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| Admissions: HC relief to two students |
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| New Delhi: Delhi high court has ordered DU to confirm the provisional admission of two LLB students who were unable to submit their documents in time due to delay in declaration of their graduation... |
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| UPSC Introduces Civil Services Aptitude Test from 2011 |
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| UPSC has come out with a Notification towards changing the pattern for the civil services entrance exams. The Union Public Service Commission on Monday announced a new syllabus for the preliminary exam,... |
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| CBSE makes multiple choice questions (MCQs) mandatory for class IX Exams |
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| The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has made multiple choice questions (MCQ’s) mandatory for all subjects for students of class nine appearing for exams in 2011-12.
With over... |
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| Karnataka govt. opposes common all India Medical Entrance Test |
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| The Karnataka state government has opposed the proposal for a Common Medical Entrance test for admission medical and dental courses throughout the country.
Karnataka is not interested in a uniform... |
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| UGC NET E-certificate within 6 days from the Result Date |
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| Students clearing the National eligibility test (UGC-NET) will now receive an e-certificate in just six days. Presently, it takes at least six to eight months for the University Grants Commission... |
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| IIT-Kharagpur director made accused in AICTE Scam |
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| CBI has made IIT-kharagpur Director Damodar Acharya an accused in the All India Council for Technical Education scam. He was AICTE chairperson when... |
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| From year 2012, new IIMS have common admission criteria |
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| Seat selection on the lines of the Indian Institutes of Technology common admission criteria and single location GDS and interviews are among... |
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| Blair Foundation to launch India fellowship |
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| NEW DELHI: Hoping to combine faith with developmental goals, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TBFF) has launched a fellowship in India to encourage young people to work in their own communities.
The TBFF... |
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| 2.3 lakh new jobs will be created in last 3 months of 2010: E&Y |
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| According to global consultancy Ernst & Young, India is expected to create a whopping 2.3 lakh jobs in the last three months of 2010. Boosted by strong domestic economic recovery and improved global... |
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| Indian, foreign students may be barred from studying in private colleges |
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| LONDON: Tens of thousands of foreign students, including those hailing from India, may be barred from studying in British private colleges in the wake of the David Cameron-led government taking... |
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| Australian official says his country a great education destination |
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| NEW DELHI: An Australian official who was here last week said his country continued to be a great education destination.
Australia and vice-president of RMIT, said both Melbourne and Delhi... |
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| DU may hold common test for BA (Hons) in journalism |
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| New Delhi: For the convenience of aspirants, Delhi University is planning to conduct a common entrance test for the sought - after BA (honours) journalism course this year. All five colleges... |
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