In an online chat with readers on November 22, Vivek Gupta, co-founder, Plancess Edusolution addressed reader queries related to the new entrance exam for IITs and offered advice on how to prepare for ISEET 2013.
In an online chat with readers on October 25, Vivek Gupta, co-founder, Plancess Edusolution addressed reader queries related to cracking the ISEET 2013 and offered advice on how to optimise their preparation to get into the IITs.
Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar on Friday resigned as advisors of NCERT text book council in the wake of the row over the cartoon of B R Ambedkar in school text books. "Yogendra Yadav, who was the chief advisor of the Textbook Development Committee, and Suhas Palshikar who was the member of the committee have resigned," sources in the human resource development ministry said.
In its Annual Human Rights Report for 2006, the State Department also said 'attacks against religious minorities and promulgation of anti-religious conversion laws were (areas of) concern'.
A move to confer an honorary doctorate on world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand was on Tuesday embroiled in a raging controversy over his citizenship, forcing him to decline the honour at least for now.
The move will require modifications in Companies Act.
The innovation universities are part of the ministry of human resource development's brain gain policy.
A nation must educate its own, foreigners can only help at the margin.
Around 8 IT firms have withdrawn from partnering 11 out of the 20 IIITs, says govt.
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has indicated that it may allow the premier Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management to set up campuses in foreign countries once they improve their faculty positions.
He insisted that his ministry had not only met the 100-day targets but even exceeded them in some cases.
Unfazed by the controversy surrounding his nationality, World chess champion Viswanathan Anand looked cheerful as he arrived to a grand reception at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
MHRD Minister Kapil Sibal had assured the state government during his last visit to Agartala that one IIIT would come up at Agartala to give a major push to the IT sector in Tripura.
The Centre on Tuesday placed before the Supreme Court the 'relevant' material and documents on the basis of which it carved out 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities in the central educational institutions such as IITs.
The National Commission for Women has been slammed by a Parliamentary panel for not playing any "proactive" role in safeguarding the rights of the fair sex despite the massive nationwide outrage over the Delhi gang rape incident.
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.
This year's computerised Common Admission Test (CAT), which was marred by technical glitches, will not be scrapped, the exam committee announced today.
"The policy draft has been approved. The ministry has been renamed as education ministry," a senior HRD ministry official said. The existing NEP was framed in 1986 and revised in 1992. A new education policy was part of the Bharatiya Janata Party's manifesto ahead of the 2014 general election.
Tuition fee does little to even meet the institutes' operating expenses; directors differ on fee hike.
National Institute of Open Schooling, an autonomous organisation of MHRD, Government of India, invites applications for admission to its various Vocational Education Courses.
Also: Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is believed to have found that Aligarh Muslim University Vice-Chancellor P K Abdul Azis had committed financial impropriety and knowingly claimed allowances for which he was not entitled.
In an online chat with readers on November 1, Nitesh Salvi, co-founder and director, Plancess Edusolution Pvt Ltd addressed reader queries related to the entrance exam and offered advice on how students can optimise their preparation and score better.
The Cabinet reshuffle of October 28 seems to have left some Congress ministers dismayed. While some are reportedly upset over being demoted, others are unhappy about being ignored for key ministerial posts.
Society member and one of the donor members of IIM-A Prafull Anubhai told reporters on Wednesday that they were upset by the 'explicit threats and unwarranted remarks' made by the government representatives.
The cap on cylinders would burden the Centre, which will need to compensate the states for the increased cooking fuel cost.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) need to revise their curriculum to compete at the international level, newly-appointed Union Minister for Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Kapil Sibal, told mediapersons while taking charge today.
After Union Home Minister P Chidambaram it now appears to be the turn of Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, who is under attack by Congressmen both within and outside the government.
As social activist Anna Hazare's fast entered the 10th day on Thursday, his team accused "some strong elements" in the government of nullifying the entire dialogue process and said they have become victims of Congress' "internal politics".
The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Monday said lawyers across the country would abstain from work on July 11 and 12 in protest against the government's Higher Education and Research (HER) Bill aimed at usurping its control over the legal education.
After radioactive material was sold as scrap by the Delhi University, leading to the death of a labourer, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday directed the University Grant Commission to frame guidelines immediately on the procurement, use and disposal of hazardous substances by varsities. The Department of Atomic Energy has framed certain guidelines which are supposed to be followed by the universities for procurement and handling of such material.
It is likely that other Indian Institutes of Technology may not join IIT-Kanpur in its resolve to take on the new entrance exam.
The commerce ministry and industry bodies are in favour of FDI in the education sector. However, the HRD ministry is opposed to it.
The finance ministry has ruled out the proposal for the appointment of a chief operating officer (COO) of the rank of deputy governor in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), as the government feels no interim arrangements should be made for such high-profile appointments.
This includes the power to select own directors and chairmen and pay the faculty as desired.
The human resources development ministry has decided to set up an Indian Institute of Management in the North East mainly to cater to the students of the region.
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