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A digital cloud of your own

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We all have at some point of time carried bundles of certificates and their attested photo-copies to our various visits to government offices. No longer. Under the instructions from Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself, the information...

Schools News

Modi to go live on Teacher’s Day

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Come September 5 and the annual Teacher’s Day celebrations will carry a different hue this time with Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting over 1,000 school children in New Delhi. The event will be beamed live across...

Higher Education

Modi wants e-learning of Japanese in India

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants Japan government to take up steps to introduce online learning of Japanese language in the country. Modi proposed that online and audio-video courses could be started by Japan and exams could...

Higher Education

Irani asks IIMs to create knowledge consortium

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Calling for the Indian Institutes of Managements (IIMs) to bring their management expertise in national development goals, Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Zubin Irani has set out a 13-point agenda for them. Addressing the IIMs’...

Higher Education

Benefits of RGNF Scheme Elude SC, ST Students

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Thousands of students from the scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST) are yet to reap the benefits of the Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship (RGNF) scheme. More than 2,500 SC and ST students from the 2013-14...

Higher Education

IISc gets UGC nod for FYUP

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After having objected to the Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) being run by three institutions a few months ago, the University Grants Commission (UGC) is understood to have permitted the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore...

Higher Education

Less Than a Quarter of Delhi’s Poor Kids Get Free Books

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Only 17,500 out of a total of 68,951 children from poor and economically weaker sections (EWS) and disadvantaged groups have been provided with free books during this academic year, the Delhi government informed the Delhi High Court in...

Higher Education

Irani Asks States to Focus on Girls’ Education

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Union minister for Human Resource Development Smriti Irani has asked all states and Union Territories to lay special focus on education for girls and create a conducive environment for girls to go to schools and complete...

Schools News

Vietnam Eyes CBSE Pattern in Schools

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) model of education looks set to make its way to the schools of Vietnam. In an interesting move, the Vietnamese government has sought cooperation from India to boost the...

Higher Education

Poor Quality of Higher Education Disappointing: President

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President Pranab Mukherjee has expressed concern over the poor standards of higher educational institutes in India as compared to international standards. Saddened with the absence of any Indian institute in the list of top 200 universities...