New Delhi: Nearly 45,000 schools, colleges and other educational institutes run by Christian organisations around the country were closed on Friday to protest the continued violence against the commun...

New Delhi: A survey conducted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in 2006, has revealed that the learning ability of students of class III and VII in Government school...

Kolkata: Annex College of Management Studies, a management and IT training institute in eastern India, on Wednesday announced that it has tied up with the UK's Birmingham College to offer MBA cour...

Kharagpur: The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-K) has awarded the Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award 2008 to three scientists from the National Environmental Engineering Researc...

Kolkata: Avalon Academy, the aviation and hospitality training subsidiary of Aptech Ltd, on Wednesday tied up with UK-based Scotland's Colleges International (SCI) to offer higher national diploma...

Kolkata: Only 60 million out of 200 million children in the age-group 6 to 14 years go to school in West Bengal. The state is also short of 5,000 school teachers in rural and semi-urban areas, an offi...

New Delhi: Animators, fitness instructors, shoe designers, there is no shortage of new age professions for those who do not want to tread the beaten path in today's India....

Kolkata: Junior doctors of two state-run hospitals here withdrew their indefinite strike and resumed work on Thursday morning after getting an assurance from the state's health and finance depart...

Kolkata: The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) and audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have tied up to train professionals in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), acc...

Mumbai: The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, launched by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Nicholas Negroponte, will now introduce laptops with various keyboards in local Indi...