Higher Education
IIT Rajasthan opens with 112 students
As plans to set up eight more Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) take off, IIT Rajasthan was inaugurated Saturday by Minister of State for Higher Education D. Purandeswari.
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Higher Education
Bihar allocates INR 58.6 crore for NIFT branch
The Bihar government has approved the allocation of INR 586 million for the setting up of a branch of the prestigious National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in Patna.
Corporate Updates
Tata scholarships for South African university
A prestigious scholarship programme announced in Johannesburg will see Tata Africa providing funding to allow postgraduate students at the University of the Witwatersrand to research projects for the benefit of citizens across the continent.
Corporate Updates
OnForce to utilise DirectPointe’s e-Learning solution for its IT community
DirectPointe, the top-ranked management service provider (MSP) worldwide, has announced an agreement with OnForce, the world’s largest marketplace for IT service professionals, to private label DirectPointe’s learning management system.
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Laptops for Indian students at INR 400
Soon students across the country will be able to buy designed laptops at affordable prices as the government is planning to provide them laptops at around INR 400. The Indian Institute of Sciences in Bangalore and...
Higher Education
New British universities could struggle to survive: Standard & Poors
Newer British universities may disappear because of global competition forcing them to spend more, a leading ratings agency has warned.
Policy Matters
MHRD Ministry’s policy stresses on blogging, radio in school curriculum
Under its national policy on Information-Communication-Technology (ICT) in School Education, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India has recommended to encourage children to blog and communicate through community radio stations.
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More girls take to engineering studies
More girls are taking to engineering studies these days. The enrolment of girls in technical institutes in the country has gone up from 22% in 2002 to 125% this year, with most preferring system engineering and...
Higher Education
New scholarship programme to help address workforce crisis in health care
The American Hospital Association’s Career Center has announced the launch of a new scholarship programme — the National Healthcare Career Network Scholarship programme — to promote health care as a career choice.
K-12
Early intervention crucial for development of children with special needs
At a time when little was known about autism and other forms of learning disability, Wong Poh Wan and a few like-minded individuals pioneered Malaysia
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Mobile learning opens new chapter in education
If you find classroom teaching boring or computer sessions a little too tiring, then it