Education: News
DU to organize special admission drive to fill up seats
With 1,500 seats still left vacant, Delhi University is all set to conduct special admission drive for applicants under reserved quota and will release two more cut-off lists on August 3 and August 7.
Delhi govt stops funding to 28 DU colleges
The Delhi government has stopped funding to 28 DU colleges for allegedly not forming governing bodies. Twelve are fully-funded; the rest are partially-funded.
CAT 2017: Examination to be held on November 26
The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2017 for admission into the top B-schools, will be conducted on November 26.
Lok Sabha passes IIM Bill seeking to remove Government interference
The Lok Sabha has approved the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) Bill, 2017 that grants functional autonomy to the institutions and allows them to award degrees.
UPSC Prelims 2017: Results declared
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) declared the result of the civil services preliminary examination on Thursday.
Bill passed: 15 IIITs can now award degrees to students
The Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) have been declared "institutions of national importance". As of today, 15 of them can award degrees, including M.Tech and Ph.D.
UP Government department duped, paid lakhs for fake study tour
A UP government department got hoodwinked by a company claiming to have been established by Delhi government; they eventually ended up paying lakhs of rupees after the former arranged overseas study tour for a senior official.
Karnataka: Engineering colleges raise their cut-off ranks this year
Anxiety gripped engineering aspirants in Karnataka as several engineering colleges raised their cut-off ranks this year. RV College of Engineering, for instance, raised its cut-off rank to 310 from 450 in 2016.
IGNOU receives '100 applications' from transgenders, post tuition fees waiver
Who could have thought that a question would lead to a stupendous change for the transgender community. Well yes, it was just last month when IGNOU waived off tuition fees for the transgenders and since then the University has received over 100 applications from the community.
College students to now receive 'free Wi-Fi', courtesy Reliance Jio
Reliance Jio is everywhere. After bombarding with free feature phones, Reliance Jio is all set to offer free Wi-Fi to around three crore college students across the country.
Continuous shelling by Pakistan hits education sector in Kashmir
Continuous shelling by Pakistan has hit J&K's education scenario. At least one school premise has been heavily damaged.
Mumbai University: One lakh answer sheets sent to wrong teachers
Mumbai University students are scared of losing their seats in foreign-universities and in Indian colleges, as online assessment of answer sheets is nowhere near meeting its July 31 deadline.
At least 9 percent IITians dropped out in 2016-17
According to latest data released by the HRD ministry, IITs have seen about 9% students (889) dropping out in the 2016-17 academic year.
SC dismisses plea seeking minimum qualification for MLAs/MPs
The SC has dismissed a petition that sought to fix "minimum qualifications for becoming an MP or MLA", saying it was for the parliament to decide.
Kendriya Vidyalayas introduce video and programming games in their curriculum
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) is collaborating with Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Laboratories to create an advanced education system.
Teaching Kannada becomes compulsory in all Karnataka schools
After setting aside 5% jobs for state civil services, for aspirants who studied Kannada in school, Karnataka government has now made teaching Kannada compulsory in all schools.
No yoga or other sports, no engineering degree!
The All India Council for Technical Education has now made it mandatory to be actively involved in yoga, sports or other socially relevant activities to be awarded a degree in engineering and technical colleges and institutes.
Government teachers set to get pay hikes after a decade
After more than 10 years, teachers and staff in government institutes are set to get a hike in the range of 22-28%.
Swayam: 24x7 access to educational content through DTH, mobile
Soon, thousands of academic courses will stream on mobiles, tablets and DTH channels for students from Class IX to post graduation in India.
IIT Kanpur terminates 60 students for unsatisfactory performance
IIT Kanpur has terminated 60 students for unsatisfactory performance. The list includes six research scholars. Some were even in their final year.
Malala graduates from high school, Twitter applauds her
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who became a global face of girls education after getting shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012, recently graduated from Birmingham's Edgbaston school.
GST to be introduced in DU's curriculum
Delhi University is soon to introduce GST as part of its curriculum.
15-year-old boy from UP's Firozabad could become youngest IITian
A 15-year-old boy from Firozabad has cleared the IIT-JEE (Advanced). He could become the youngest person to get admitted into IIT.
Maharashtra girl wins 1st Kalpana Chawla scholarship
Sonal Baberwal from Amaravati created history by becoming the first winner of Kalpana Chawla scholarship of the International Space University (ISU) in Ireland.
Indian teen uses MIT's tool to teach coding to orphans
17-year-old Jay Jaganaath simply wowed everyone when he started teaching coding to orphaned children in SOS Children's Village, an NGO in Faridabad.
Uttarakhand government schools to have 'English' as medium of instruction
In an ambitious move by the Uttarakhand government, over 18,000 government schools will now have 'English' as the teaching medium.
Jharkhand ministers turn students, take lessons from IIM-A Professors
At least 9 Jharkhand ministers took management lessons at the premier Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad to deliver their pre-poll promises.
Former ISRO chief Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan to head education policy panel
The HRD Ministry has formed a nine-member panel to work on a New Education Policy to transform school and higher education.
Why do so many IITians commit suicide?
During January-April 2017, there were four suicides at the prestigious IITs, three at Kharagpur.
Bihar Class X results: Only half the students pass
The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) declared results for Class X board exams today.
From next year, CBSE board exams to start in February
From the next academic session, Class X and XII students of CBSE will have to sit for their board exams a month earlier, in February.
Punjab: Free education for girls from nursery to PhD
The Punjab government announced a slew of social welfare measures for various groups. A major step was towards women empowerment: girls will now get free education in government institutions from nursery to PhD.
Scholarship of Rs. 1cr for UG programs in Australia
Good news for Indian students. Sydney-based Macquarie University is launching the second edition of 0the Big History International Student Undergraduate Scholarship.
Super 30 breaks its records, every student cracks JEE
Mathematician Anand Kumar runs an institution called "Ramanujan School of Mathematics" and every year this institution picks up 30 meritorious students from the backward sections of the society.