'Education is disconnected from social reality and does not even attempt to solve the real problems of our country,' observe Peehu Pardeshi and Sandeep Pandey.
The state government decides to take over the management of all shelter homes after incidents of sexual abuse surfaced in Muzaffarnagar, reports M I Khan.
A 23-year-old American girl, a student at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Trombay, was drugged and raped by six male friends last week. Yesterday, we published a guide for young women on date rape and how to prevent against it. Here, Mumbai-based clinical psychologist Sadia Raval sheds light on the emotional trauma of rape victims and imparts therapeutic advice to them and their families.
The government will not fund religious instruction like Quranic interpretation and Islamic law at madarsas (religious schools) but financially support regular subjects like maths and science that may soon be taught there as part of its modernisation process. The human resource development ministry will link madarsas with the National Institute of Open School and introduce mathematics, social sciences, Hindi, English and other regular subjects as part of modernisation.
The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, invites applications for admission to its Fellow Programme in Management.
The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) announces Doctoral Fellowships for women researchers for 2008-2010.
Jamia turned into a battlefield on Sunday as police entered the campus and also used force, following protest against the Act.
National University of Educational Planning and Administration has opened admissions for part time and full time courses.
TATA Social Sciences Institute offers 15 seats for its two year Social Entrepreneurship programme.
After the exit of Aruna Roy, government has reconstituted the National Advisory Council by inducting renowned sociologist Virginius Xaxa into the 12-member panel chaired by Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Much as we might like to believe that date rape is a curse of the Western world, we have to open our eyes to the fact that the crime is much closer to home than we realise.
ICSSR offers numerous doctoral fellowships for 2007-2008.
Several girls were allegedly raped and sexually abused at an NGO-run shelter home in Muzaffarpur and the issue had come to light following a report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
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
Preparation and practice tips for maths.
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 Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, invites application for its two-year, full-time Master of Business Administration (Management of Services) Programme.
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.
Trump can afford to say that COVID-19 is a 'China virus', but we can't expect Modi to say that aloud while his actions may speak louder, says Rup Narayan Das.
Tata Institute of Social Sciences offers a two year programme in globalisation and labour.
India's soft power diplomacy came into play during this cataclysm affecting the world as the pandemic defies barriers and borders, notes Rup Narayan Das.
'At this moment, the Trinamool has an edge.'
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.
The one-size-fits-all approach adopted by the AICTE is not suitable for regulating business schools in India, argues Asish K Bhattacharyya.
The Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, invites application for admission to its management programmes.
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.
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 Jawaharlal Nehru University invites applications for admission to its PhD 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
