In the past year, even as B-schools were hemmed in by a host of issues, including quotas, fee hikes, government intervention, faculty shortage and infrastructure bottlenecks, many of them did not become diffident.
From being a rickshaw puller in New Delhi to becoming an organic farming expert and an innovator, it has been an amazing journey for this farmer from Damla village in Haryana.
In its latest annual report, IIM-A has said it generated a net surplus of Rs 6.83 crore (Rs 68.3 million) for fiscal 2010-11 against an operating loss of Rs 50.49 lakh (Rs 5.04 million) in 2009-10, and Rs 6.33 crore (Rs 63.3 million) in 2008-09.
Seeking to make inroads in Chhattisgarh, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced 10 'guarantees' for the upcoming assembly polls in the Congress-ruled state including free electricity, monthly 'samman rashi' for women and Rs 3,000 monthly allowance for the unemployed.
Welcome to the world of Kanak Gogoi, an entrepreneur based in Guwahati, who has over a dozen innovations to his credit ranging from gravity-operated bicycle to a car which can run on air.
The consortium will launch programmes in ease of doing business in their respective regions B-schools.
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.
Families in India have to spend a considerable amount on the primary school education of their children, making the fundamental right to basic education a distant dream, according to a recent UNESCO report. In contrast, university education remains subsidised and costs just half of the primary school spending. Households pay for more than one-quarter, 28 per cent, of the costs to send their children to primary and secondary school.
'There is no reason to anticipate a drastic change in Canada's attitude towards Indian students.'
They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not even seem to recognise that they too have crossed a red line themselves, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Rediff reader Murali Krishnan Ambati, 47, from Bengaluru shares an interesting formula to save money.
Taking serious note of mushrooming media schools in the country, government is mulling framing guidelines to protect the interest of students who have to eke out exorbitant fees for these unrecognised courses.
'This is a dangerous job, as I am at a higher risk of contracting the infection, but I need the job'
'I have saved your name on my phone, but I cannot read or pronounce it.' 'I am able to recognise my wife's name today because after seeing it for so long, it has been imprinted in my mind as a picture and not the letters.'
For the moment, CBS would be offering post-graduate programmes in retail management and in management and insurance.
Will have to pay 12% tax besides 3% education cess.
For the first time in India, Swiss Learning, an educational body managed by the Heads of Swiss Educational Institutes, has brought representatives from various schools from the country to meet stakeholders, Indian schools and parents of potential students.
'Younger children don't really distinguish based on class, gender, income and so on.'
Opener Shubham Rohilla struck his fourth first-class hundred to take Services to 279 for 4 against defending champions Saurashtra
Savita Kanswal, 26, was posthumously awarded the highest adventure award at Rashtrapati Bhavan this month. She died heroically, as she had lived, doing what no woman had done before her.
The Supreme Court on Friday ended the legal challenge to the government's decision to drastically reduce the admission fee to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management by disposing of a petition on the issue.
Sharma, who was earlier employed with Kanda's MLDR airlines, was found dead on August 5, 2012 at her Ashok Vihar residence in North West Delhi.
Five days after bullet-riddled body of Geetanjali Garg, wife of Chief Judicial Magistrate Gurgaon, was found, police today recovered two of the three bullets which pierced through her body, while his father was on Monday questioned by the SIT.
As the Indian version of The Archies gets ready to hit OTT, Deepa Gahlot picks 10 interesting college-and-youth-oriented shows on OTT.
In an online chat with readers, overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to international admissions.
Some 230 kilometres from Kolkata, in West Bengal's Birbhum district, 500 children stand out because of their 'unconventional' education, says Anjuli Bhargava.
This implies that the 30-odd institutions in Maharashtra will be free to select candidates through any of five national level entrance tests.
They took the centre-stage in the showpiece, showed the world what they are made of and walked away from the global meet with honour and distinction.
This beauty queen's story will inspire you.
'FDs should hold your emergency funds, equivalent to around 6-12 times your monthly expenses.'
In 2007, a year in which the inflation figure had yet to become the finance minister's Friday fear and crude oil was not hogging headlines, the placement salary spike was 10 per cent. What makes the jump this year even more impressive is that it does not take into account the offers from international companies, which typically dish out more than domestic recruiters.
While Juventus look forward to a first Champions League final in more than a decade and the riches that success brings, former employees at the Italian giants' Singapore-based soccer school push on with their fight for unpaid wages.
The suicides have involved more NEET aspirants than JEE. 'It's a make-or-mar situation.' 'Either you get into a government medical college, where the fee is much lower than in private institutes, or you don't make it.'
At 19, he quit everything to work in a tribal village for free.
There are certain key points that one must know when while applying for education loans
How did people with less education than me and my several degrees navigate the Internet with such ease, asks Geetanjali Krishna.
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Prashant A Bhonsle lists 5 major points you need to keep in mind before applying for a student loan.
Here are some little-known facts about Indian child activist Kailash Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzay
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