‘Skill up India’ online education portal launched in Gujarat
In Gujarat, a free education portal ‘Skill Up India’ (SUI) has been launched, by ‘Code for India’ (CFI) based at Silicon Valley, it’s a network of Indian-origin technology professionals. CFI is the coming together of US-based technologists, designers, and engineers to volunteer their time and talent to give back to the community. CFI’s Gujarat More...
University Must Produce Men and Women of Character and Integrity: President
The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee has said equipped and conferred people are important to construct the nation we want. Our universities must produce men and women of character and integrity. Mahatma Gandhi More...
IGNOU offers course on tourism
NEW DELHI: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is offering a masters programme in tourism from the 2013 session, an official said on Sunday. “The Master of Arts in Tourism Management (MTM) consists More...
Mukesh Ambani is open to setup Harward standard Institution in India
Reliance Group Chairman, Mukesh Ambani is ready to set up an institute along the lines of Harvard University in Maharashtra, informed Rajesh Tope, Minister of Higher and Technical education in Maharashtra at the More...
FICCI President: Education System not keeping pace with evolving Technology
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) organized the 5th Global Skills Summit in New Delhi. FICCI president, RV Kanoria said that the Indian Education System is not keeping pace with the More...
Indo-Global Education Summit in September 2012
The Indus Foundation is a non-profit educational trust dedicated to the promotion of higher education in India, is organising Indo-Global Education Summit 2012 in Hyderabad from 7 September, 2012. According to sources, More...
UGC may take over the IGNOU’s hold over Distance Education Council
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and is called as country’s largest open learning university. In an aggressive move taken by University Grant Commission (UGC), there are likely chances for IGNOU More...
AICTE planning for Engineering Courses through Distance Learning
In a move to uplift the engineering education, the government is working on a proposal to launch engineering courses through open and distance learning system. The initiative is basically for the aspirants who More...
Distance Education Needs an Improvement
Aiming for higher enrolment in distance education in India, a panel investigated its present status and has recommended to the HRD Ministry that an independent legislation must be passed on the lines of UGC. According More...
Online MBA: A New Wave
Online management programmes have shown a great response among companies. While more and more companies want their executives to take up an online MBA because of the time factor, many institutes such as Glion Institute More...