A parliamentary committee has recommended that the medium of instruction in technical and non-technical higher education institutes such as IITs in Hindi-speaking states should be Hindi and in other parts of India their respective local language. It said the use of English should be made optional.
...current industry models will soon fade out, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
IIT Kanpur registrar Sanjiv Kashalkar told PTI that the work will be completed by 2012. The premier institute has been granted five acres of land in sector 62 of Noida.
'I do not want to get into the number game. This time, the BJP will get unprecedented seats and vote percentage in Gujarat.'
Admission to part-tme diploma courses under State Board of Technical Education, Haryana, Chandigarh
The Institute of Hotel Management - Aurangabad (IHM-A) announces admissions to BA (Hons) in Hotel Management and BA (Hons) in Culinary Arts.
Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow's, admission notice for session 2008-09.
Two-year full-time management at UBS, Panjab University.
Germany is keen on investing in specific areas in West Bengal as part of a bid to strengthen Indo-German bilateral ties.
A 50-feet breach caused to the river embankment at Oleru near Penumudi in Guntur district has become a major cause for concern as the flood water gushing through it has left more than 25 villages inundated in Repalle and Bhattiprolu in Andhra Pradesh. Repalle town too is likely to get marooned by late night because of the heavy flood, according to state Minister for Law and Technical Education Mopidevi Venkata Ramana.
The Supreme Court on Monday permitted institutions belonging to the Muslim community in Maharashtra to hold separate Common Entrance Test.
Oracle India has announced an in-kind grant of $5.4 million to provide specialised training in information technology to students in 100 polytechnic institutes in Karnataka under its Oracle Academy programme.
The two-time CM, who had also been the Rajasthan Governor, died at a Lucknow hospital on Saturday after prolonged illness.
Shortage of staff is preventing the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission from summoning over 140 B-schools to furnish details about their fee structure, faculty payments and tie-ups. The body issued notices to around 100 "defaulter" B-schools last week.
The lab has been set up in collaboration with a US and Singapore-based software company 'Autodeck', and will be inaugurate by Dr Tom Joseph, Worldwide Programme Director of the software company tomorrow, said K V Satyamurthy, Associate Registrar of IIT-K.
The Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, invites applications for its Post-graduate Diploma in Computer Aided Management.
Edtech major Byju's on Tuesday said it has filed a complaint in the New York Supreme Court to challenge acceleration of the $1.2 billion Term Loan B (TLB). The company is also seeking the disqualification of Redwood, who contrary to the terms of TLB, purchased a significant portion of the loan while primarily trading in distressed debt. "Byju's has had to take these measures following a series of predatory tactics by the lenders, led by Redwood," the company said in a statement.
Today there are 1,400 B-schools accredited by the All India Council for Technical Education and countless more -- of questionable credentials or otherwise -- that function without AICTE certification.
The Institute of Rural Management, Anand, invites applications for its Post-graduate Diploma in Rural Management.
A whirlwind trip of the dark underbelly of global finance, covering everything from tax law changes to aiding criminals to decamp with money from bank accounts.
Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com travels to Pullampara to discover how it became India's first digital literate village.
Mastermind Shrinivas Rao Dadi, 49, who has sound technical knowledge despite limited education, was taken into custody by a team of Bangur Nagar police station from a plush hotel in Hyderabad, the official said.
'Its people are either victims of corruption or witnesses to it.'
rediffGURU Mayank Chandel offers advice to students interested in a careers in science or engineering after class 10 and 12.
'Just because of my background and poor academic qualifications, most people disbelieve what I have done.'
Buoyed by the presence of a number of reputed engineering and technical educational institutions in and around the city and the availability of a vast talent pool, Tata Consultancy Services, is targeting Coimbatore.
The one-size-fits-all approach adopted by the AICTE is not suitable for regulating business schools in India, argues Asish K Bhattacharyya.
The Institute of Hotel Management, Aurangabad invites applications for its five-year BA (Honours) in Hotel Management and three-year BA in Culinary Arts programmes.
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.
The reason: The Planning Commission has decided to cut the allocation for higher and technical education in the Budget 2007-08.
Singapore's Changi Airport International (CAI) has decided to increase its stake in Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Ltd (BAPL) to 32.2 per cent from 26 per cent held since the project began in 2009.
DIG Mukesh Prasad has been shifted as Director Technical Education with immediate effect and has been replaced by Devender Singh.
Around 7,000 CFA students await the Delhi high court's verdict on whether or not the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute will be allowed to conduct the exam as per schedule on June 3.
About 7,000 Indian students registered with the Chartered Financial Analyst institute are unlikely to appear in their examinations scheduled for June 3.
The criteria will be the marks obtained in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.
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