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With the government planning to give more freedom to top business schools, India’s top private institutes like XLRI (Jamshedpur) and SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (Mumbai) might soon get more hold in admission process. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is likely to hold a meeting later this month to discuss […]

The first phase of placements at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) this year is already turning out to be better than last year. A week into the first phase and most IITs have seen a 20-30% rise in jobs offered to students compared to 2016. THE MOTIVATING FIGURES At IIT-Madras, close to 65% of […]

Google has been quite popular as the search engine provides answers to people’s all queries, from the most random to the most meaningful. But recently, Vice- president M Venkaiah Naidu has asserted that Google can never replace ‘guru’ (teacher). PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT “Google can never replace Guru. A guru gives not mere academics, but gives insights […]

Yes, you heard it right. Using genetic information, researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden provided new evidence that higher educational attainment is strongly associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease. If a gene with a specific impact on the risk factor is also associated with the disease, then this indicates that the risk […]

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 […]