New Delhi: A high-powered committee of the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has uncovered several large irregularities in granting recognition to teacher training institutes by the Northern Regional Centre (NRC) of the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE).All states under the juris...

New Delhi: Enterprising British youngsters are utilizing their school holidays to gain first-hand knowledge of the impact of globalization. At least 30 are learning Indian business processes at leading multinational companies, acquiring basic knowledge of Indian culture as lodgers with Indian famili...

Mumbai: Don't just vote but consciously select your leader - that is the premise behind an Indian portal that offers the database of Mumbai's 1,500 politicians in order to help voters make an informed choice. It has now been selected by the prestigious Harvard University for research.The portal, www...

Beijing: An overwhelming majority of Chinese students - around 87 percent - who studied abroad in 2009 received financial support from their parents, a government survey has said.It said only nine percent of those studying abroad received scholarships from foreign institutions while three percent su...

New Delhi: What the government could not, civil society is stepping in to do. Students in Delhi are busy doing their bit to clean up the Yamuna river, the city's lifeline, ahead of the Commonwealth Games - planting saplings along its banks and holding workshops and street plays to enthuse people to ...

London: The British government is spending 110,000 pounds on a century-old school which has no students on the rolls but a headteacher, a caretaker and board of governors on the roster.The classrooms of the Ysgol Capel Iwan Primary School near Newcastle Emlyn in Carmarthenshire, which opened in 1888...

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on Sunday launched a certificate course in PC Hardware and Networking in association with HCL Infosystems Ltd, an official said."It is a state-of-the-art industry ready course created jointly by IGNOU and HCL. This programme is to be offe...

Chandigarh: Foreign students at the Chaudhry Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU) in Hisar will now have to study Hindi as a compulsory subject, a varsity official said on Sunday.The academic council of CCSHAU decided to make Hindi language a compulsory subject for foreign students ...

Chandigarh: The Haryana government has made computer literacy compulsory in all its colleges from this year, a minister said on Sunday.Minister of State for Agriculture and Cooperatives Sukhbir Singh Kataria said in a statement that modern computer labs are being set up in every government college i...

Chandigarh: A group of former students of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has planned a conference of the alumni to contribute in the social and economic development of Punjab and other states of the country, a representative said here on Saturday."We have engaged the IIT alumni, settled abro...

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Saturday passed a bill to re-establish the historic Nalanda University in Bihar as an international institute of learning.The bill, which was introduced in the house last week, was passed in a special sitting on Saturday. The Nalanda University Bill, 2010, will establis...

Toronto: Canada's Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University here plans to offer its world class courses to Indian students and forge tie-ups with Indian universities.Currently Indian origin students account for about 10 percent of the enrolment at the Ted Rogers School of Management, whi...

New Delhi: As the human resource development ministry seeks to establish education tribunals across the country, a parliamentary panel has urged wider consultations with all stakeholders before parliament debates the measure.In its report to parliament, the standing committee on the human resource d...

Aligarh: Dr. M. Karthikeyan, Scientist at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, delivered a lecture on "Role of Chemoinformatics in Academics and Industry" at a programme organized by the Department of Chemistry of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). While thanking for the invitation to share h...

Delhi: Senior Scientist and Lead Technologist at the Johnson Space Centre, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. Kumar Krishen, visited the Delhi Technology University (DTU) on Friday and interacted with the students and faculty members of the university.An accomplished engineer,...

Gwalior: Major General Sarbjit Singh Pawar, VSM has been appointed as Vice Chancellor of Lakshmibai National University of Physical Education (LNUPE) in Gwalior.The university is an autonomous organization attached to Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.Major General Pawar will be replacing Major G...

New Delhi: The Indian Army on Friday launched an initiative titled 'Kshamta' for soldiers to help them learn basic computer skills and spoken English, and secure "good jobs" after retirement."As the soldiers retire at an early age, we want them to be self-dependent after they leave the armed forces....

New Delhi: The curriculum for the Financial Markets Management (FMM) stream has been reviewed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in order to help students pursuing the course in securing admissions in universities.The FMM course had been launched by CBSE in collaboration with the Nat...

New Delhi: Only a couple of days after the Medical Council of India (MCI) announced a nationwide Common Entrance Test (CET) for all medical courses in India from the next academic session, it has now been announced that the medical CET has been scrapped.The decision came after the move by the Medica...

Ipoh, Malaysia: A decades-old Tamil school near here will not be closed down to respect the sentiments of the ethnic Indians who had planned protests to preserve their heritage.Following an intervention by Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, Perak state's chief minister Zambry Abdul Kadir ordere...