Indonesia to boost healthcare, education with India's ICT help

Indonesia hopes to improve its healthcare and education sectors with India's ICT knowledge and resources.According to Didie Soewondo, deputy chairman of the Indonesia Chamber of Commerce and Industry at a meeting in India on Monday, India not only has a comparative advantage in education and human resource, its ICT education was also sophisticated, the Jakarta Globe reported.He also noted many companies from various sectors in Indonesia needed advanced technology to support their operations and...

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NIIT, Autodesk partner to offer design education in India

Education and IT training company NIIT and NIIT University today entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Autodesk Inc. a firm involved in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software and services to offer design education in India. As a part of the MoU, NIIT will offer design related programs in schools and NIIT University will offer design courses in the institute.Under this significant partnership, NIIT and NIIT University will leverage design tools of Autodesk to offer a...

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S Chand: India's Fastest-Growing Educational Publisher

The beginnings of the S Chand Group were steeped in nationalism. Started by Shyam Lal Gupta in 1937, its mission was to publish Indian authors unable to find a voice in colonial times. S Chand has evolved into one of the biggest domestic publishers and exporters of textbooks. It publishes all types of educational books: Higher education, technical and management education, school books (they account for 60 percent of its revenues).The education market in India is roughly pegged at $20 billion, growing at over 30 percent. The industry’s attractiveness...

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Stanford scholars find varying quality of science and tech education in Brazil, Russia, India and China

America may have legitimate competitive reasons to worry about the number of computer science and engineering graduates from elite Chinese and Indian universities – the figure dwarfs that of U.S. students with similar degrees.But a new book by Stanford researchers and others says that the concern that these countries will develop their own centers of high-tech production and innovation and draw research, development and scholarship away from American shores is still premature.The research, a...

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To woo more kids from India, top Canadian Universities visit Indian schools

Despite slowdown students going to Canada doubled in the past three years when US, UK saw a decline, the ecstatic Canadian institutions have leverage due to cheaper education and job opportunities.Eyeing more students from India, top Canadian Universities are currently visiting the best schools across India providing “personal guidance” to hundreds of potential candidates. The senior officials of nine Universities of Canada including British Columbia University, Carleton and Toronto University...

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Academic Ranking of World Universities 2013 released: A dismal show by India

This week China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University released its influential ranking of tertiary institutions across the globe, naming the top 500 higher educational institutions. US universities, as is their wont, dominated the show, sweeping as many as 182 slots in the best five hundred. 8 of the top 10 universities are in the US, with Harvard named as world's best higher institution with a score of 100. Second spot is claimed by Stanford University, followed by University of California and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The only non-US...

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Home finance companies bet big on education loans

CHENNAI: Housing finance companies are not just targeting young professionals or double income couples with home loan offers. They have now expanded their reach to the growing universe of students aspiring for higher education.What's driving the foray is the boom in professional courses. As per industry estimates, around Rs 80,000 crore was spent on higher education by Indians last year, most of it in pursuit of professional degrees. Currently, there are more than 15-16 million students in colleges and technical institutes across the country and...

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Globalization impacts legal education in India

ALIGARH: Faizan Mustafa, vice-chancellor of the NALSAR (National Academy of Legal Sciences and Research) University of Law, Hyderabad, said globalization was having an impact on legal education, changing the earlier state-centric approach.Today, we have to look at the market too, to understand the relationship between law and the state, Mustafa said, while delivering the Extra Mural Lecture on Globalization and Third Generation Reforms in Legal Education at Aligarh Muslim University Saturday.Transnational laws such as International Monetary Fund...

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Russian universities increase 375 seats for Indian students

Russian universities increase 375 seats for Indian studentsThe Russian Universities have informed EDURUSSIA - the official admission processing office for students from India, that it can enroll an additional 375 students this year. "This will benefit students aspiring to study medicine, dentistry and engineering who have been unsuccessful in securing admission to the course of their choice in India," said Manoj Patki of EDURUSSIA. He said that 375 seats have been added in premium universities such as the Moscow Medical Academy, Peoples' Friendship...

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India to focus on quality of its maritime education and training

India’s maritime education and training sector is set for a churn as its maritime administration, led by the Directorate General of Shipping, takes steps to introduce a new monitoring mechanism for institutes to ensure quality and uniformity. The directorate will soon introduce a so-called Comprehensive Inspection Programme (CIP) that seeks to do away with the inspection processes a maritime training institute is required to undergo on a regular basis—scheduled inspections by academic councils, quality certifications by certifying bodies and grading...

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