Increased allocation to the higher and technical education sector would mean more funds to revamp the university education system and lay a thrust on technical education.
The Domina Hotel Group, Italy's largest hotel and resort operator, will start operations in India in the next two years.
Education institutes are using a new technique - search engine marketing - to spread awareness about their programmes and to create a niche for themselves in the students' minds.
AICTE to seek states' help to close institutes.
India has a shortage of 150,000 rooms and the government hopes this will create additional 7,000 hotel rooms for events like the Commonwealth Games, scheduled in New Delhi in 2010.
Harvard will now study the civic ills of Mumbai and Delhi. But will any good come of it?
Monsoon tourism, as it is known, has performed beyond the expectations of tour operators, garnering a 50 per cent increase in both in-bound and out-bound traffic.
The National Knowledge Commission is setting up an online network that will enable college students to access study material and connect with institutions and faculty members from around the world by the year 2008.
After Reliance Industries and the Aditya Birla Group, the Tata Group is poised to become the next big name to feast on the burgeoning food retail sector.
The room rate for the presidential suite, spread over 12,000 sq ft and with an exclusive entrance and a private elevator, is exactly double that of most other expensive suites in India.
Sahara India Pariwar, a major player in the infrastructure and housing sector, is planning to build a five-star hotel in Lucknow. The company has plans to build a hotel in each of its 217 Sahara City homes.
The Chartered Financial Analyst Institute's level I exams scheduled for December 2007, registrations for which began this September, might not be held in India.
The Chartered Financial Analyst institute has filed a petition in the Delhi high court seeking a stay on the notice, even as it has decided to give $300 (Rs 12,300) to each of its 7,000 students to write the June 3 examinations outside India.
About 7,000 Indian students registered with the Chartered Financial Analyst institute are unlikely to appear in their examinations scheduled for June 3.
For sometime, satellite-based management education has come to the aid of senior managers who never went to a business school.
The Bill, to be called the Draft Engineers Bill, will propose setting up a separate statutory authority which will lay down specifications for competency in professional engineering practice.
International hospitality majors such as Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, and Jumeirah International are all planning to establish their presence in the country.
Over 20 premier Indian B-schools have jointly decided to present a white paper to the All India Council for Technical Education, recommending that instead of regulating them, the governing body should facilitate the growth of management education in
The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, has called off its plan to start full-time operations in Singapore. Instead, it is exploring tie-ups with institutes in Singapore to offer Executive MBA (EMBA) programmes.
Tata Motors may soon set up a car manufacturing unit in Egypt, North Africa. The car major is said to have held talks with an eight-member high-level delegation from Egypt.
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