London: India is making its mark on the global economy with "electrifying skill, innovation and dynamism" and now is the time is right to study, invest and work with the country, British Foreign Secre

Bangalore: Low employability, particularly in the IT sector, of thousands of engineering graduates hitting the Indian job market every year is prompting academia and industry leaders to make efforts t

New Delhi: Shortage of top quality mathematicians in India today could be due to lack of flexibility in the education system, feels prize-winning Indian American mathematician Srinivasa Varadhan."We d

Patna: Shakuntla Sinha knows where to cut corners to keep the house running with her husband's Rs.15,000 salary. The couple maintain a strict, austere lifestyle and rarely indulge, except when it

Jammu: Moved by the plight of her remote village in Jammu and Kashmir state, a Kashmiri woman born and brought up in Dubai relinquished what could have been a lucrative career and opened a school ther

Azamgarh: A single bamboo stick holds the thatched roof together, the discoloured floor serves as both bench and chair, the kids sit in neat rows and a man sits on a printed mattress. It is from humbl

New Delhi: Even as the Right to Education (RTE) Act bars corporal punishment, a survey of nearly 200 schools in 11 states revealed that only five percent of them prohibit physical punishment for stude

New Delhi: The year 2011 for Delhi Technological University (DTU) has been a year of great achievements and growth. The university achieved a new height of its glory with its ranking in Top 10 Best En

London: Ever thought why does your child fail to perform better in classroom or be cheerful? Well, you can get your answer the sooner you understand the old saying - all work and no play makes Jack a

New Delhi: The Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011 was tabled in the Rajya Sabha the government seeks to establish the National Commission on Higher Education and Research (NCHER) as an overarch

Azamgarh: For 25 years, Mohammad Ikram worked day and night in Saudi Arabia to fund the education of his four sons back home here, waiting for the day they would be able to stand on their own feet. Bu