In the last budget, then finance minister Arun Jaitley had allocated Rs 85,010 crore for the education sector which was later revised to Rs 83,625.86 crore.
Sitharaman said the government will bring in a new national education policy to transform India's higher education system into one of the best in the world.
ICSSR offers numerous doctoral fellowships for 2007-2008.
What does Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee thinks about India's education sector?
'Unless the State is a welfare State, unless the State has more welfare measures, it will not be able to deal with these kind of sudden situations.'
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) announces admission for Master's Degree Programmes -- 2008
PRADAN, one of the largest NGOs of in the country, is looking for senior research associate, executives and apprentices.
Banaras Hindu University invites admission to PhD/ Vidyavaridhi programmes for the semsesters of July 2007 and January 2008.
The study, conducted by David Cutler, dean for social sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and Ellen Meara, assistant professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, has cited that people having more than 12 years of education have significantly longer life expectancy than those who never went beyond high school.
Banaras Hindu University is conducting entrance tests for
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Anna University is offering a two-year programme in Coastal Management for the 2007-2008 academic year.
India's standing in the international community will take a beating now that it has become evident that the Indo-US civil nuclear deal has been given a silent burial, eminent economist Lord Meghnad Desai has said.
A spokesman of the university said the privately-funded Manmohan Singh Scholarship will send three serving scholars from India every year to St John's College, Cambridge, where the prime minister had studied economics and won the Wright's prize for distinguished performance in the mid-1950s.
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, invites applications for admission to its various Post-graduate degree programmes.
'The virus of trust deficit seems to be taking a toll of the friendship built over the years by succeeding leaderships of the two countries,' notes Rup Narayan Das.
The Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, invites application for its two-year, full-time Master of Business Administration (Management of Services) Programme.
The CBI in its report had alleged that Thakur is an influential person and a mobile phone was recovered from him inside the jail where he is currently lodged under judicial custody.
The Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, invites applications for its two-year, full-time Master of Business Administration Programme.
The school's academic record can be gauged from the fact that 90 per cent of its students clear Class 12 and one even topped last year's National Children's Science Congress.
The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, invites applications for its PhD programme.
Tata Institute of Social Sciences offers a two year programme in globalisation and labour.
A 33-year-old PhD scholar from Manipur was found murdered with his neck slashed at his home in south Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur area on Wednesday night.
The Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, invites application for admission to its management programmes.
The Diaspora is no longer a mere remittance economy. It today claims dual loyalty and demands a say in Indian politics, says sociologist Shiv Visvanathan
Vouching for academic credentials of the students named in the probe report of the controversial Afzal Guru event on February 9, a group of Jawaharlal Nehru University faculty members has noted that the sequence of events "does not constitute a major act of indiscipline".
The School of Management and Labour Studies of the Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai, invites applications for its Master of Arts Programme in Human Resource Management and Labour Relations.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University invites applications for admission to its PhD programmes.
National University of Educational Planning and Administration, Government of India, announces admission to M Phil and PhD Programmes for 2007-08.
Up to 300 million farmers will move into cities over the next two decades.
Three 35,000-scholarships set up in honour of the Prime Minister of India exclusively for Indian students to read for PhD & MPhil degrees in science, technology and social sciences at the St John's College, University of Cambridge.
'We have not taught children their rights and responsibilities, nor life skills,' says Mitali Saran.
'Instead of writing NAM's obituary, India should reinvent it,' suggests Dr Rup Narayan Das.
The United States Educational Foundation in India invites applications for its Partnerships for Learning Undergraduate Studies.
'China feels India will be hard-pressed not to go after China because we are so badly dependent on them -- and that is the reality.'
Tata Institute of Social Sciences offers a two-year degree programme for a diploma in Media and Cultural studies.
A tribal student from Odisha left his folks proud after participating in the Malala Day United Nations Youth Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
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