The state cabinet on Wednesday decided that no new engineering college would be allowed to come up in the state and also capped the number of students that existing engineering colleges can admit each year to 420 students per college.
As a result the number of engineering colleges in the state will not go ..
Tamil Nadu Government should construct another SC/ST hostel in a year and accommodate only prescribed number of students as the present one for school and college students of the Scheduled Caste and Tribes located at Surampatty on the suburbs is quite inadequate, Sivanna, Member of National Commission for SC, said...
The West Bengal government is set to implement its Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) for college teachers, who have completed M.Phil or done Ph.D, with effect from November 1.
Announcing this after a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the state's Finance Minister Amit Mitra said altogether 20 per ..
The premier bourse, National Stock Exchange of India Ltd has joined hands with the Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics (GIPE), a deemed university at Pune, to start post graduate executive diploma course in financial markets (PGED-FM) for working pofessionals.
The financial sector is expected to ..
President Pranab Mukherjee lamented that India, once the cradle of civilization, is now the poorest in terms of education, literacy and knowledge.
Describing lack of literacy as the biggest challenge facing the country, Mukherjee said the largest number of illiterates in the world resided in India.
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IIT Roorkee alumni has launched a funding initiative under which the alumni will directly fund student projects.
The initiative, known as Student Alumni Association of Roorkee, is an interactive technology-enabled transaction platform specially designed for students of IIT Roorkee.
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A special train focusing on bio-diversity and climate change will be stationed at Delhi Cantonment station for four-days beginning December 2.
Known as the Science Express-Biodiversity Special, the state-of-the-art exhibition train has covered 263 stations across the country, a senior Northern Railway ..
Assam Human Rights Commission (HRC) wants introduction of human rights in the syllabus of primary and secondary school and at the college level.
Delivering the Second Surendra Nath Sarma memorial lecture on human rights education here, HRC Chairman Justice (Retd) Aftab Hussain Saikia said, there could be ..
The Uttarakhand government has given its nod for the setting up of Urdu Academy in the capital.
Announcing this, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said different languages of the country are a reflection of its pluralist culture and the Urdu Academy will be a step towards strengthening it.
The ..
Senior education experts and non-governmental organisations (NGO) in Pune and Mumbai are preparing a model code of conduct for school students. With teachers constantly complaining about student misbehaving in classrooms, the code is being designed taking into consideration some of the existing models in the US and ..