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WishTel adds Capsule in its tablet portfolio
WishTel Launches IRA Capsule – a convertible tablet laptop.
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Gordon Rich-Phillips announces 120 new high-tech jobs
Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips has announced 120 new high-tech jobs will be created in Victoria, with the expansion of global software company, SAP.
Higher Education
Gujarat proposes 3 new private state universities
GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat Private Universities (Amendment) Bill might be a hope for establishment of three new private varsities in the state. The bill, to be tabled in the assembly coming week, if approved will give way...
K-12
60% fee hike in Kendriya Vidyalayas
CHENNAI: After the last hike in 2009, Kendriya Vidyalayas across India have raised their fee to more than 60 percent. Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) have also notified that the computer fund and Vidyalaya Vikas Nidhi would...
Higher Education
Inclusive, quality education is the need of the hour: UGC
BANGALORE: Delivering a speech at the sixth National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) Award ceremony Ved Prakash, chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC) emphasised on the need to focus on inclusive, quality education to contribute to...
Higher Education
Admissions to 4-year DU course might be based on Cut-off marks
NEW DELHI: In a new development with regard to the new four-year undergraduate programme of Delhi University (DU), it has come to light that the admissions to this course might be based on cut-off percentage. The...
K-12
Lowest dropout rate in Kerala schools, says report
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: At 0.53 per cent, Kerala gets the credit of being the Indian state with lowest dropout rate of school students. Wayanad district had the highest overall dropout rate of more than one per cent. However,...
Higher Education
More Indian institutes in Africa: Anand Sharma
NEW DELHI: While addressing the CII-EXIM Bank conclave on India-Africa partnership in New Delhi, commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma announced that India is working closely with Africa towards setting up of educational institutions in the...
Higher Education
Dr Philip Kotler visits JRE School of Management in Greater Noida
Inaugurates the Philip Kotler Library at JRE; addresses students and professors at the campus…
Higher Education
UPSC’s new pattern ‘highly discriminatory’: Jayalalitha
CHENNAI: J Jayalalithaa, chief minister Tamil Nadu stated that the changes introduced by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) in civil services exams are “highly discriminatory” and “is calculated to bias the system against civil services aspirants...
Higher Education
TalentEdge to open 100 education learning campuses
TalentEdge announces its first education learning campus in Andhra Pradesh
Higher Education
Free education for children in private schools: K’taka HC
KARNATAKA: Free and compulsory education would no more be restricted merely to the 25% prescribed and selected by the State under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 and would now cover...