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Students from DU get share in European scholarship pie
Delhi Uuniversity has been roped in for an international scholarship programme that has an eye-popping budget of 10 million euros.
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Financial crisis at Harvard
Despite amassing an almost US $37-billion endowment, Harvard University is warning that the economic slowdown has reached America’s richest university.
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BPO jobs targeted by Pune Varsity
The University of Pune is planning to churn out 50,000 business process outsourcing (BPO) professionals every year through a
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IIT Madras gets Google grant
The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M), which recently introduced engineering courses on Google and YouTube, is set to get up to INR 50 lakh as an academic grant from Google to fund its National Programme on...
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Mixed Reactions to AICTE permission for running evening classes
The All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE) may have given a reprieve to existing and new engineering institutions by allowing them, among other things, permission to run evening engineering and polytechnic colleges. However, there are...
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Academicians paid best by Saudi Arabia and worst by China
Academics in Saudi Arabia are the best paid on earth while scholars in China are the worst off, according to a pioneering just-published global study of salaries conducted by the Boston College Center for International Higher...
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Obama and higher education: promises and problems in US
Obama’s platform targets loan programmes, access to higher education, community colleges, science and technology, and affirmative action.
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Lyon College Plans Laptop Rollout
Lyon College has gone public with plans to lease and deploy about 550 Lenovo ThinkPad notebook PCs over the next three years.
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Top Headmistresses: Traditional lessons ‘dumbed down’
A leading headmistress says the teaching of traditional subjects such as English, history, geography and science is being ‘dumbed down’ as schools attempt to make lessons more relevant to enhance the economy.
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Bartolo complains of delays in ICT contract appeal for MCAST students
Opposition education spokesman Evarist Bartolo has urged the Contracts Appeals Board to urgently consider the case he had raised about possible irregularities in the selection of ICT centres to provide ICT courses for MCAST students.
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First ICT registered celebrations at ST Mary’s College
ST MARY’s College was today holding a virtual celebration after being named the first ICT Register school in Northern Ireland.
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Meerut Varsity Postpones B.Ed Examinations
Meerut University has indefinitely postponed B.Ed examinations slated to begin from November 7.