New Delhi: Only 7,116 new schools were set up across India in 2009-10, meeting only half of the target set for constructing new school buildings under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). Among the worst ...

New Delhi: The Cabinet today is expected to take up five bills, which shall overhaul the scenario of higher education in India.Out of the series of five bills, three of them have been passed by the mu...

New Delhi: To address the increasing skill challenges of the Indian IT industry and growth of the domestic IT market, the state Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry intends to establish 20 Indian...

New Delhi: The Central plan scheme which provides a provision for grant of financial assistance for appointment of a maximum of three teachers in modern subjects in traditional Sanskrit Pathshalas/ Ma...

New Delhi: Placement season at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) has well and truly begun with students being offered pay packages as hefty as Rs.1.6 crore within just two days of...

New Delhi: Encyclopedia Britannica textbooks and an online study module will hit Indian schools from April 2010 in four subjects - computer science, mathematics, environmental studies and general know...

New Delhi: The government will propose several legislations to encourage private participation in education as the states alone cannot provide resources, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapi...

New Delhi: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), in a bid to save time and money of students pursuing the Chartered Accountancy programme as they complete their course is planning to...

New Delhi: Privately-run deemed universities facing de-recognition on Monday challenged in the Supreme Court the central government's authority to strip them of their status.Appearing for various ...

New Delhi: Abuse and harassment meted out to children in schools is increasing each year, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said on Monday. Last year alone the national child rights&...