Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development, has suggested that instead of diplomas, degrees should be issued to all the students graduating from the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM). The deemed university status to IIMs would allow the institutes to award degrees. The proposal which is currently under consideration by the ministry is...
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India Today first launched its Best Colleges Survey and Rankings in 1997. Over the years, there has been a lot of change in the Indian higher education sector. The number of colleges has increased from around 9,500 to 30,000. The number of students enrolling for a college education has risen from 5.5 million to...
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Singapore, a small island with an area of 682 square km is on a verge of becoming a hot destination of Indian aspirants for education in management. As per the Siew Kheng Kang, Regional Director, Singapore Tourism Board, there are 70,000 international students in Singapore. Out of which, about 3000 Indian students go every...
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Students who wish to pursue their career into engineering stream would be required to share one platform. The admissions to all centrally funded technical institutes (CFTIs) in the India, including the IITs and the NITs, will be directed to appear only one entrance test from 2013. Accordingly, the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for admission...
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Education sector has been named as a major employment driver in India during the Indian Job Outlook Survey 2012 conducted by Tjinsite, which is a research and knowledge arm of TimesJobs.com. The supply of candidates is considerably growing in the sector as job seekers are eyeing employment opportunities in this by considering it as...
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Bollywood actor and producer Shah Rukh Khan will join the likes of former Presidents George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter when he delivers a lecture at Yale University as a Chubb Fellow on April 12. The Chubb Fellowship, bestowed upon the Bollywood actor this year, is among Yale’s highest honors and was...
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that nearly 9,000 libraries across the country will be linked digitally. The move under the National Mission for Libraries aims to cover 9,000 libraries in cities, towns and villages of the country the next three years. “A young reader sitting in his village public library should be able...
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To strengthen skill development initiative in the country, the Government has doubled allocation under the National Skill Development Fund (NSDF) and launched a credit guarantee fund for skills development. In Union Budget for 2012-13, Rs 1, 000 crore has been infused into NSDF raising the corpus of the fund to Rs 2,500 crore. “This will...
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The government is considering a proposal to make caste discrimination in institutions of higher education a punishable offence. The HRD Ministry has been jolted into action by an increasing number of suicides by Dalit students over the past few years and an appeal by the forum of SC/ ST parliamentarians. Sources said HRD Minister...
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A M Naik, Chairman and Managing Director, Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Mumbai has been nominated as the Chairman of the Indian Institute of Mananagement Ahmedabad for a period of three years. He will also head the the Board of Governors of the premier B-School. The Ministry of Human Resource Development finalised his name. He will assume...
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