The capital city of Bhubaneswar has emerged as an education hub in eastern India. National institutes like IIT, AIIMS, NISER, NIFT, and several private universities in the city have been attracting students from across India and outside. In a changed scenario post-covid when students prefer local institutes, the city has become a preferred destination for […]
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The University Grants Commission (UGC)’s official Twitter account earlier hacked on Sunday, April 10, which was restored later. The unidentified hackers took control of the UGC’s Twitter handle- @ugc_india and made several irrelevant posts. The hackers made a series of tweets tagging the followers of UGC. “In celebration of the reveal of the Beanz Official […]
The Delhi University (DU) will set up two not-for-profit companies to seek funds from its alumni and to promote innovation, university Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh has said. As the university enters its centenary year, Singh said there should be policy reforms. “In the centenary year, we should come towards policy reforms to make DU a better […]
Banaras Hindu University has launched a new scholarship scheme for international students. Under the programme- “Scholarship to International Students“, foreign students will receive Rs. 6000 per month which will be renewed annually on the basis of satisfactory performance. The decision to launch “Scholarship to International Students” was taken in the meeting of Governing Body of […]
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the University of Melbourne have made collaboration on the first-ever joint PhD programme in Science and Technology. This joint PhD programme is likely to be extended to the Medical PhD programme in the near future. Both institutions had a meeting on Friday at the IISc campus to discuss the […]
Himachal Pradesh has emerged as the best-performing state in the education sector in the country, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said on Friday. He was addressing a function organized on the occasion of the inauguration of a Delhi Public School at Tiara in the Kangra district. Thakur said there are 1,878 senior secondary schools, 931 […]
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022: Five academic programs of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi gas featured in the top 100 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022 released on Wednesday, April 6. The five IIT Delhi programs, which achieved top-100 ranks globally are Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer […]
The University Grants Commission (UGC) is working on a regulation to facilitate the entry of foreign universities into India, UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar said at The Indian Express’s India Education Summit on Wednesday. Speaking during a panel discussion on ‘One year into NEP’, Kumar said some countries have shown interest in entering the Indian […]
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras is actively reaching out to several countries to boost the enrolment of international students for the specially-curated two-year International Interdisciplinary Master’s Programme (I2MP) offered by the institute.IIT Madras, which is one of the first educational institutes in India to offer Interdisciplinary master’s degrees, has received overwhelming interest from international […]
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has announced that it will offer internships for training in various skills to over one lakh students across the country. The program will be implemented under the name of Skilled Force. The training will be imparted by Cisco, an American multinational technology company, and companies such as […]