Indian American appointed executive-in-residence of top US varsity
A research was conducted jointly by the universities on the finances of foreign students and the paper asked the Australian government and educational institutions to set aside funds for such students. Review of the 'specified minimum income' the students need to support themselves while studying, was also demanded from the government, The Australian reported on Wednesday.
Satyam Computer Services has reached an agreement with Australia's Victoria University to jointly conduct research and also provide the university's students hands-on working experience on its projects.
Condemning the arrest of JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar in a sedition case, eminent journalist P Sainath on Friday took a "nationalism" lecture in the varsity's courtyard and advised the students to let their movement continue against "criminalisation of dissent".
The students are demanding the removal of vice chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar from his post.
Amid growing demands for his resignation, Kumar told the MHRD officials that efforts were being made to facilitate semester registration for 'willing' students.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his team, including a powerful former bureaucrat in New Delhi, have failed in their efforts to persuade former president A P J Abdul Kalam to continue as visitor of the upcoming Nalanda International University in the state.
The MoU was signed by New York Consul Geneal Dnyaneshwar Mulay on behalf of the ICCR and Richard L Edwards, executive vice president for Academic Affairs and interim Chancellor, Rutgers University to initiate this academic partnership.
Nearly half of faculty positions in the country's 47 universities are lying vacant, the government said on Monday.
About 70 Indian students at the University of Northern Virginia, which was raided last month by agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcementthe investigative arm of the department of homeland securitymet with Ambassador Arun Kumar Singh, Charge d'Affaires at the Indian embassy in Washington D C who assured them that the government of India and the embassy will "continue with their efforts to try and ensure that the students at UNVA are not victimised in any way."
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday opened a new front with the Congress when the administation cancelled an interaction by Rahul Gandhi with students of the Chandrashekhar Azad University in Kanpur on Friday. Rahul Gandhi drove straight from the airport to the university where he found the doors of the auditorium, where he was scheduled to hold the interaction, locked.
"Student unrest has become a common phenomenon in JU. The trend of CPI-M and Left-backed student unions of JU has been to stop anything that is against their ideology, which is totally against the country's democratic set up. We condemn it," state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh said.
Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has been accused of fraud and misuse of facilities by the administration of the University of Agriculture in his hometown Faisalabad. The administration has ordered him to immediately vacate the land given to him to establish his cricket academy. The varsity administration claimed on Saturday that Ajmal had charged admission fees from one student to join the academy and over 350 students became members.
Union minister Subhas Sarkar courted a controversy on Wednesday with his remarks that Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's mother did not cradle him in her arms when he was a child because of his "not so fair complexion"
In a yet another bailout that will go down well with the political class, the government has proposed one-time assistance to state government and private universities and colleges that do not get any financial assistance from the University Grants Commission, the country's higher education standards regulator, which also funds institutions.
The varsity had recently proposed adding bestselling author Chetan Bhagat's debut novel "Five Point Someone" as a "General Elective" paper for students of honours courses other than English, a choice that drew sharp reactions on the social media.
The court told the police to ask the authorities concerned to expedite the sanctions.
India on Saturday said that the Indian students of California-based Tri Valley University, which has been shut down on charges of massive visa fraud, should be absorbed into other United States universities and not victimised.
Ritu Jha speaks to some Indian students who have been at the receiving end of the Tri-Valley University scam in the United States.
After being duped by a California-based "sham" university, scores of Indian students in the United States are now enduring the ignominy of being forced to wear radio collars around their ankles so that authorities can keep track of their movements.
Earlier, two different benches of the apex court had refused to hear the cross-appeals saying that one or the other judges had been linked to the adjudication of the issue before.
At least one Indian student has been arrested in a countrywide operation in which hundreds of Indians may be victims or participants in an elaborate fraud scheme involving a California university.
Hundreds of Indian students may have been victims in an elaborate fraud scheme, according to a complaint filed against a university in California by the United States attorney's office.
A homemaker in every family would get a monthly assistance of Rs 1,000, the manifesto said.
The Cabinet decided to amend the UP State University Act, 1973, to this effect, an official release said.
Apart from the charge of indiscipline against them, the students in their pleas had also challenged their punishment, which ranged from rustication for a few semesters to withdrawal of hostel facilities and fines.
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, which governs the ancient shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala here, on Wednesday announced that Lord Hanuman's birthplace was Anjanadri, a hillock at Japali Theertham located about 5 km from north of the hill temple.
The proposed Rs 15,000 crore (Rs 150 billion) Vedanta University Project in Orissa suffered a setback with the Orissa high court on Tuesday holding as illegal the state government's land acquisition procedures for the institution overlooking Bay of Bengal.
Non-Resident Indian academic Suresh Deman seems to have made it a full-fledged profession to sue universities and cash in on Britain's rights culture as he pocketed a whopping 2 lakh pounds in payouts and cost the taxpayer an estimated 1 million pounds.
Five Jawaharlal Nehru University students, including Umar Khalid, who the police have been looking for in connection with a sedition case, surfaced on campus on Sunday, saying they did not do anything wrong but were "framed" using "doctored video".
A gunman on Tuesday opened fire inside a library at the University of Texas in United States, before shooting and killing himself.
A top US university is "walking away" from the $3 million grants it received to establish endowed chairs in India studies after alleged that the donors had "extreme right-wing notions".
Last year, the institute sent a three-person team from its textile engineering, school of business administration, and science and health department to study the market potential and feasibility.
Anand 'Bill' Julka, who came to the United States with a $1,500 student loan from a government-owned bank in India in 1968, has gifted $6 million to Cleveland State University, the largest single scholarship gift in the university's history.
The city-based infrastructure company, which has an order book of about Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion), has received approval from All India Council for Technical Education for starting management programmes at its newly management school in Delhi, Era Group chairman and managing director HS Bharana said.
Georgia Tech University, a leading technological education institute in America, has decided to open its campus in Hyderabad.
The university will house a fully equipped pilot training centre.
NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul has donated $500,000 to the Carnegie Mellon University in North America for developing an infant Lab Suite in memory of his daughter Ambika.
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