ShareConsumer goods major Hindustan Unilever (HUL) today said it has tied up with the Tata Group retail arm Star Bazaar to promote education among the underprivileged children. HUL and Star Bazaar had conducted the ‘India’s Favourites’ campaign last September and had created awareness about various social causes, including education of the underprivileged children, welfare of [...]

SharePresident Pratibha Patil would on Wednesday lay the foundation for the Rs.300 crore south zone campus of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) near this Kerala capital, a top official said on Tuesday. “This zonal campus comes after the university decided to decentralize its operations into five zones. This south zone campus would look [...]

ShareMaharashtra government is working on an insurance scheme for students of higher and technical education courses which will ensure that their studies are not hampered in the event of the death of their guardians. Higher and Technical Education Minister Rajesh Tope said the scheme will be applicable to all professional degree and diploma courses like [...]

ShareManmohan Singh’s visit to Dhaka has the potential to infuse fresh dynamism into the multi-faceted relationship between India and Bangladesh. The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, will be in Dhaka on September 6, as part of a two-day official visit to Bangladesh, to cement the historic ties that were initiated by his Bangladeshi counterpart, Sheikh [...]

ShareThe Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) previously used for admission by the IITs and IISc stands discontinued. A recent review revealed that the relatively young JMET is not too dissimilar to CAT, and that the effort to organise JMET each year seemed enormous in relation to the approximately 40,000 candidates who took the test each [...]

ShareIn a bid to increase student engagement, Pearson Education India (PEI) has tailored and customised six books for first year engineering syllabus of the University of Pune (UoP) and institutes affiliated to it. The books were launched at a seminar held on August 27, at hotel Le Meridien in Pune. Speaking on the occasion, chief [...]

ShareHindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), India’s Largest FMCG company, and Star Bazaar, of  Trent Hypermarket Limited, the retail arm of Tata Group, today announced a unique consumer initiative titled ‘India’s Favourites’ to promote the cause of education of underprivileged children. The India’s Favourites campaign was launched by HUL CEO, Nitin Paranjpe, Trent Hypermarket, CEO Jamshed Daboo  [...]

ShareIDP Education India, a student placement company, is organising an education fair in Coimbatore for students aspiring to pursue higher education in Australia. Scheduled to take place from 1pm to 4pm at The Residency on September 7, the fair will bring together prominent Australian universities and educational institutes under one roof. Speaking about the event, [...]

ShareS P Kothari, deputy dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management of one of the America’s top universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was in India last week to discuss launch of the India Trust, a partnership with key corporates here at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, to promote further education and [...]

ShareA bill, seeking to allow a private party to set up a private financial management university in Manipur, was referred to a select committee of the Assembly today after members cutting across party line expressed doubts about the private party’s interest. Education minister D.D. Thaisii moved the bill today, the concluding day of the monsoon [...]

ShareThe Orissa Private Engineering College Association (OPECA) has filed a writ petition in the Orissa High Court on Monday, challenging the court’s decision to go by AICTE guideline of minimum eligibility of 45% marks in Plus II or equivalent exam for admission in an engineering course. The OPECA has cited in the petition that the [...]

ShareJadavpur University and Bengal Engineering and Science University’s refusal to scrape the bottom of the merit list to fill their vacant engineering seats has forced the government to contemplate exempting the Big Two from its order. Higher education department officials said the exemption could be announced by the end of the week, based on the [...]