Author Archives: Mayank Arora

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Friday rejected a study done by IIT Madras which said its bio-digester toilets being used in trains are no better than septic tanks, and said the study was “flawed”. Reports quoting Ligy Philip, the professor who headed the study at IIT Madras, had said the toilets that […]

More than 500 students have been hired, with over 25 international offers made, by the end of fifth day of the ongoing placements at IIT Delhi THE INTERNATIONAL OFFERS The international offers came from companies in Singapore, Hong Kong, the United States, Netherlands and Japan. Among the international offers, a maximum of six offers were […]

The Sikh organisation in Washington has raised $210,000 or Rs 1.35 crore for underprivileged youth pursuing higher education in Punjab. The fund was raised at an event this week by the Sikh Human Development Foundation (SHDF), featuring actor Gurpreet Singh Ghuggi. “The SHDF has so far given more than 5,000 scholarships to students. Out of […]

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has announced a 100 per cent fees refund scheme for meritorious and economically weaker students. RELIEF IS APPLICABLE TO… This relief is applicable for those students registering in ‘Company Secretaryship’ course for its Foundation and Executive programme in December. The fee refund scheme will be open for […]

UK universities continue to attract thousands of students from India and elsewhere. But a new report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed that many students believe their courses do not offer value for money or offer poor value. In the context of higher education increasingly seen as a market and students as consumers, […]

The goods and services tax (GST) in ancient Indian political-philosopher Kautilya’s treatise Arthashastra. Or Manu, another ancient philosopher, as the first to think of globalisation ? Several postgraduate students of political science at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) were stumped when they confronted these two topics in their semester exam on “social and political thought of ancient […]

According to UNESCO reports, the lack of accountability in the education sector is jeopardizing the progress in the area. It recommends that government  should adopt mechanisms to fix responsibility. The report from UNESCO was named as Global Education Monitoring (GEM) report which drew attention to the damage in education sector  by lack of accountability. The […]

On the lines of parent-teacher meetings, the higher education department will soon launch a Guru-Shishya Samvad (student-teacher dialogue) programme to address problems faced by students in various colleges. The programme will be launched in Jaipur soon, said higher education minister Kiran Maheshwari. She was speaking about the achievements of her department on completion of four years […]

Yes you read it right, the Rajasthan government is planning to discontinue interviews and instead select teachers on the basis of written exams, higher education minister Kiran Maheshwari.The minister was replying to a query on the large number of vacancies in government colleges and the delay in filling them Maheswari said that there were 1248 […]

The Bombay High Court has given the University of Mumbai another chance to ensure that the technical glitches it faced with the on screen evaluation, OSM system during the summer semester are not repeated during the winter semester this year. The court was hearing a bunch of petitions filed by students and the Bombay University […]