New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved revision of the existing norms of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) programme to conform with the Right of Children to Free and Compul...

Mumbai: Due to an ongoing faculty crunch at India's premier engineering institutes, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are mooting a proposal to hire foreign nationals as permanent faculty...

New Delhi: The process of selection of candidates for the 'Maulana Azad National Fellowship for Minority Students' has been finalized for the year 2009-10. Under the fellowship scheme, candida...

Chennai: After receiving several complaints from harried parents and students regarding the pressure on students due to implementation of the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), the Centra...

New Delhi: Flora Aduk finished her graduation in Uganda but realized that her dream of pursuing an MBA would be impossible to fulfill due to financial constraints. She had almost given up when one day...

New Delhi: Notwithstanding the chill in ties over the visa row, China and India are looking to forge new ties in the field of education with Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal heading for...

New Delhi: A University Grants Commission (UGC) expert committee has suggested that committees in universities must be set up for the purpose of reviewing the safety measure undertaken while handling ...

New Delhi: A batch of petitions that have been filed by various private unaided and minority schools against the government's Right To Education (RTE) Act-2009 will be heard by a Constitution Benc...

Chennai: During a press conference on Tuesday, Union Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs V. Narayanasamy said that the UPA government was considering tabling two important Bills c...

New Delhi: National Advisory Council chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday expressed concern over teacher absenteeism in government schools in rural areas and said they should make efforts to reach th...