Sommet Education, which owns renowned institutes including Les Roches, École Ducasse and Glion Institute of Higher Education, recently entered into a strategic partnership with the Indian School of Hospitality (ISH), founded by hospitality veteran Dilip Puri. The partners said they aim to offer a global standard of education to a larger number of hospitality and […]
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Globalization of Education: Karnataka’s Higher Education Dept to Enter Into a Pact with Bavarian Universities
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Karnataka’s Department of Higher Education and Bavarian Universities of Germany have decided to join hands together under National Education Policy (NEP-2020) and a schedule of proposed activities has been charted out on Thursday. In a meeting held at Vidhana Soudha between Dr C N Ashwathanarayana, Minister for Higher Education, representatives of German Consulate and Bavarian-Indian […]
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SPbPU: Polytechnic University At The Forum Of Employees Of International Units Of Higher Education Institutions
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Dec
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Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University participated in the Forum of Employees of International Units of Higher Education Institutions, which was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The event was also attended by representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of […]
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The number of students going abroad for higher education has dropped by over 55 % between 2019 and 2020, Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was replying to a written question in the Rajya Sabha. “While 5,88,931 students went abroad for higher education in 2019, only 2,61,406 students had gone […]
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IIT Roorkee began its journey in 1847 as the first engineering college in the British Empire and has since progressed rapidly with many initiatives in engineering education, research, and development. The institute celebrated the 175th year of excellence on November 25, 2021, in the presence of the Minister of Education, Skill Development, and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Dr. B R Ambedkar School of Economics University (BASE), Bengaluru to inaugurate a new building on campus. The new building will be inaugurated on December 6, which happens to be Ambedkar’s death anniversary. Modi will also be addressing the Chaitya Bhumi program on the same day via video […]
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President Ram Nath Kovind addressed the centenary celebrations of the Harcourt Butler Technical University (HBTU) on Thursday. Our country has increased its credibility in the field of technology, but we still have a long way to go. Technical institutions like HBTU should inculcate the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship in their students. Students should be […]
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The world’s perception of the employability of graduates from some of India’s top educational institutions has improved amid the harrowing Covid-era employment scene in the country. Seven Indian institutions figure among the top 250 ranked globally by the London-based agency Times Higher Education (THE), which looked at the employability perception among 10,928 international recruiters from […]
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The Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (IIT-D) is planning to open two campuses in Egypt and Saudi Arabia as part of global outreach and expansion of top Indian institutes including the elite IITs that will boost the higher education sector. Such an expansion overseas of top Indian universities will have multiple positives. For one, […]
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On Wednesday, the Assam Cabinet decided to restructure the state education policy, in order to line up with the National Education Policy. The new re-structured education policy will make schooling education a 15-year affair, compromising four categories- foundation, preparatory, elementary, and senior secondary, said Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. The foundation category will have […]