In a major relief to private unrecognised schools, Lt Governor Tejendra Khanna has agreed to relax land use norms in the Delhi Master Plan 2021 so that these schools are not closed down.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit had taken up the matter with Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath and the Lt ..
The MSME Development Institute is launching a portal that will match skills of school and college drop-outs with requirements of industry opportunities to suggest the right candidate, a top official said.
The portal, which is expected to go live by April end, is an entrepreneurship project and the ..
A new partnership between Indian and UK scientists to develop talent and innovation in a progressive branch of atomic physics is now underway.
The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune and the University of Birmingham's School of Physics and Astronomy are collaborating in ..
Playing loud and "improper music" at schools in Punjab during functions is set to be banned, with state government today asking schools to comply with the directive.
The state government has directed school authorities to ensure that farewell functions being organised in High and Senior ..
Scientists have modulated Indian Nobel laureate C V Raman's spectroscopy signals, opening the door to wider biomedical and clinical applications such as real-time assessment of tissues during surgery.
Researchers from St Andrews (UK) and Jena (Germany) have now demonstrated that wavelength-modulated Raman ..
Stanford University has set a new record for college fundraising, becoming the first school to collect more than USD 1 billion in a single year, according to a report released.
For the eighth straight year, Stanford ranked first in the Council for Aid to Education's annual college fundraising survey, ..
Scientists have incorporated an artificial brain in a humanoid robot, enabling it to understand what is being said and even anticipate the end of a sentences.
The 'simplified' artificial brain system has allowed the robot to learn, and subsequently understand, new sentences containing a new grammatical ..
A global survey of the academic community on the leadership challenges faced by the Indian higher education system has revealed that the sector is facing shortage of capable leaders with 92 per cent of the respondents saying that this trend is expected to continue until 2020. Just five per cent of the respondents said ..
The government said the ambitious Rs 5,000-crore National Knowledge Network (NKN) project would be completed within a year.
The project, began in 2009, is aimed at interlinking 1,500 agricultural, medical colleges, research institutions and other academic organisations with an objective to enable research ..
India and UK industry bodies signed two agreements to collaborate in healthcare and education areas aimed at improving these sectors in both the countries.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Association of Colleges, India (AoC India) have signed an agreement with the objective of establishing ..