The Centre for West Asian Studies of the Jamia Milia Monday invited applications for its integrated M.Phil-PhD programme in international relations with special focus on India's relation with West Asia."The Centre for West Asian Studies prom ..

The Delhi High Court Thursday admitted a public interest litigation of a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that has sought stay on the declaration of result of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) entrance exam held April 11. Raising the issue ..

The Kerala government-run educational TV channel will telecast documentaries produced by the BBC Motion Gallery for the benefit of the state's students, an official said Saturday.The 450 episodes of educational videos on history and culture, scie ..

The Indira Gandhi National Open University has started four new vocational courses beginning from this year's July session."We have started four new courses which are M.Sc. in Actuarial Science, Post Graduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Sales  ..

Young Narayan Konwar from Assam who cracked the civil services examination this time had failed once in his Class 12 board exams and secured a second division in Class 10."Failure is the pillar of success," Konwar told IANS outside his mud- ..

The Delhi High Court has underlined the need for providing good facilities to poor students in private schools and directed the government to consider revising the rates for reimbursement of the cost of their books and uniform. Justice Kailash Gambhi ..

Uttar Pradesh Governor B.L. Joshi has rejected Lucknow University Vice Chancellor M.K. Mishra's resignation offer over the question paper leakage that resulted in the cancellation of the state's B.Ed entrance exam, officials said Thursday. Ta ..

Local universities cannot be "partial" in giving admissions to students of their own state, the Gujarat High Court has held.A division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Akil Kureshi held, "By admitting local students ..

Global NGO Save the Children with financial assistance from the Netherlands has launched an 8.8 million euros Balochistan Education Programme to provide access to quality basic education to more than 73,000 children over the next five years. The prog ..

The World Bank has approved an additional $292 million for two ongoing projects in Bangladesh to improve infrastructure and education in the country, the bank said Wednesday. Of the total amount, $257 million will be given for infrastructure developm ..

Four people have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Farrukhabad district for their alleged involvement in leaking the question paper of a B.Ed entrance test that was cancelled just hours before it was to start Wednesday morning, officials said. The ..

The University Grants Commission (UGC) Tuesday formed a five-member committee to formulate guidelines for procurement, usage, storage and disposal of radioactive and hazardous material in the wake of the radiation leak in the city that killed one per ..

Lucknow University cancelled the B.Ed entrance exam slated for Wednesday morning following leakage of the question paper. The announcement made by the varsity came as a shock for lakhs of candidates, who were told about the cancellation at their resp ..

The Gujarat High Court Monday issued notices to the vice-chancellor and registrar of the SNDT Women's University of Mumbai for alleged irregularities in the process of BEd admission and examinations.A division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopad ..

To develop "green" habits among children, the Himachal Pradesh government has started the practice of administering a pledge to protect the environment during the morning prayer session in all schools beginning Tuesday, an official said her ..

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and New Zealand Tuesday agreed to boost bilateral cooperation especially in the education sector.Kim Mitsune, the New Zealand minister of trade, met Mugheer Khamis Al Khaili, the director general of Abu Dhabi Education  ..

India must aspire to provide world class legal education through a "dramatic reform" of the present system to improve the economic environment and ensure citizens get speedy and affordable access to justice, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sa ..

Six hundred Abu Dhabi students of grades 10 and 11 will visit Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the US as part of a "summer abroad" programme.The Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) has selected the students on the basis of their a ..

After years of neglect, the first Buniyadi Vidyalaya (basic school) set up by Mahatma Gandhi in Bihar's East Champaran district is to be upgraded to a 10-plus-2 school.A day after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made the announcement in Badharwa-Lakh ..

The Indian space agency is likely to launch its rocket, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C15), carrying its cartography satellite Cartosat-2B and couple of other payloads, sometime in June. Originally scheduled for launch May 9, the Indian Space  ..