Higher Education and Skill Education Guarantee Scheme will be named after APJ Abdul Kalam

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced that the government’s Higher Education and Skill Education Guarantee Scheme will be named after former President A P J Abdul Kalam, who passed away in Shillong on Monday. The scheme, under which the government will stand guarantee for student loans of up to Rs 10 lakh, will be named ‘Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Higher Education and Skill Education Guarantee Scheme’. Paying homage to Kalam, the CM said that he was known for his extraordinary...

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Telangana State Admission Fee Regulatory Committee TSAFRC Formed

Hyderabad: Telangana State government is to build its own Admission Fee Regulatory Committee, TSAFRC for maintaining proper fee structure in institutes, universities under TSCHE. Newly formed Telangana State is now ready to build its own Admission Fee Regulatory Committee for maintaining a proper fee structure. Recently, State Council of Higher Education TSCHE has been formed and conducted many entrance exams like EAMCET, ICET, ECET, PGCET, etc. for providing admissions into various courses...

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Education software company Blackboard is looking to sell for $3 billion

Blackboard, a U.S. software company that provides learning tools for high school and university classrooms, is exploring a sale that it hopes could value it at as much as $3 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. Blackboard's majority owner, private equity firm Providence Equity Partners LLC, has hired Deutsche Bank AG and Bank of America to run an auction for the company, the people said this week. Blackboard has annual earnings before interest, tax, depreciation...

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New education policy will be ready by 2015 : Smriti Irani

Smriti Irani has a precise goal: to spruce up the education sector in India. The Union Human Resource Development Minister is clear about what she wants – accountability from the teachers and to serve the interests of students across India whose future depends on the quality of education they receive. But in her endeavour, Irani – the feisty minister – has ruffled many feathers. And so she believes, she has been selectively targeted by these vested interests who accused her of saffronising the...

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Singapore based educational institute is planning to set-up its campus in India

Indian education market, it looks like, is all set to spread its wings as foreign educational institutes are looking forward to setting up shop here. As reported by Economic Times, a Singapore-based educational institute is planning to set-up its campus in India. The institute, in collaboration with India's Vels Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies will set-up its campuses in Chennai. With a plan to invest Rs 46 crore in the project, the University will offer programs in business and management. Management Development Institute...

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Resolved to constitute a Directorate of Legal Studies and Law Reforms

The Bar Council of India Vide their Resolution No.115/2012 have resolved to constitute a Directorate of Legal Studies and Law Reforms as well as Legal Education Committee. The aforesaid Directorate shall discuss and lay down the procedure for conducting, holding and administering the following functions :- (i) To monitor the All India Bar Examination; (ii) Continued Legal Education; (iii) Educational programmes in various centers of Legal Education and court premises; (iv) Moot Court competitions at National and international levels; (v)...

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The future of education is indeed being shaped by digital technology

Digital Education, in the last few years, has facilitated the movement of the paradigm for education beyond hardcopy books and conventional chalkboard classrooms. Over the past decade, the education industry has gone through an array of functional changes in learning methodologies, teaching techniques and in the approach to education itself. The efficacy of new tools and techniques used in education have been repeatedly proved in this time period. Researchers have found that performance of students...

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Bharat’s desire to realize its aspirations through access to better quality education

If there is one single thing that can completely rewrite the Indian social landscape, then it has to be education. It is, as Nelson Mandela famously remarked, “the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Unfortunately, over the last six decades, despite impressive progress in literacy levels and full enrolment at the primary school level, the quality deficit in education has only widened. Official data released earlier this month is cause for both hope and despair. The latter...

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99 per cent success registered in the Telangana State Education Common Entrance Test (TSEdCET)

HYDERABAD: A whopping 99 per cent success rate has been registered in the Telangana State Education Common Entrance Test (EdCET), the results of which were announced here Thursday. This year, 57,775 candidates appeared for the test, out of whom 57,220 qualified for admission into the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) courses. Every year, EdCet records one of the highest success rates, owing to the exemption awarded to several categories of students. Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SC)...

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How digital lockers to E-education, E-health in Digital India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched his most ambitious Digital India programme, which aims at transforming the country into a digitally-empowered knowledge economy. The programme aims at bringing as many as 2.5 villages under broadband connectivity. The highlights of the Digital India programme, worth Rs 1 lakh crore, are digital locker, E-education, E-health and National Scholarship Portal. Here's a guide to each initiative Launched under the Digital India programme:Digital Locker:PM...

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Digital India more opportunity for health, education: Anil Agarwal

Agarwal, who heads the mining giant Vedanta Resources Plc, is the Non-Executive Chairman of Sterlite Technologies Ltd (STL) which is involved majorly in laying the optical fibre network to connect 2.5 lakh gram panchyats. "I am very excited about it (Digital India programme). This is one thing which will connect India. It will bring in education, healthcare, the whole urbanisation of villages. It will connect India together," Agarwal told reporters. The initiative aims to digitally deliver all the essential services to citizens and transform...

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The launch of ‘Digital India Week’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 1st 2015

The Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY), which is implementing the government’s ambitious Digital India programme, is expecting commitments of investments to the tune of Rs. 2 lakh crore from domestic and foreign firms at the launch of ‘Digital India Week’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday.“Initial indications are that we will get commitments for Rs. 2 lakh crore of investments…,” a source in the Department said.While Taiwanese firm Delta Electronics is likely to announce the...

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Best Colleges in India 2015: India's Top Education Destination, Says Survey

The importance of education isn't something that needs any kind of awareness these days, but certain questions like where to study or what course to pursue must be decided with the best options available.India Today has released a recent survey on the best educational institutes in India, where students can pursue their higher studies on their favourite courses. These include Arts, Science, Commerce and Mass Communication institutes across the country.The survey reveals that New Delhi has now become the best place for education in the country...

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India will set up a Malaviya Commonwealth Chair for Cross Border Teacher Education

The announcement in this regard was made by Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani at the 19th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers held at Nassau (Bahamas) from June 22 to 26, an official statement here said.The chair will focus on issues pertaining to curriculum development, pedagogy, student assessment, pre-service and in-service teacher training and capacity development.Irani also proposed the setting up of a Commonwealth Consortium for Research which can function in collaboration with the Commonwealth Education hub and...

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