George Group of Colleges introduces Sports Management as Bachelor's program

Mar 28, 2015, at 06:26 pm

Kolkata, Mar 28 (IBNS): George Group of Colleges, a part of 'The George Telegraph Group', announced on Friday the launch of scholarship program for Bachelor's in Sports Management for current season starting from August.

Genpact, Ashoka University partner to launch centre for women leadership

Mar 24, 2015, at 12:06 am

New Delhi, Mar 23 (IBNS): With a vision to drive gender-inclusive growth that empowers and promotes women's leadership across sectors in the country, Genpact Limited, a global leader in designing, transforming, and running intelligent business operations, and Ashoka University, a new liberal arts university have partnered to create and launch the 'Genpact Centre for Women's Leadership' (GCWL).

British Council celebrates 2nd year of its World Voice Programme in India

Mar 20, 2015, at 01:53 am

New Delhi, Mar 19 (IBNS): As part of a three-year project in arts education, the British Council, UK's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities on Thursday celebrated two years of its journey of the World Voice Project (WVP) in India.

Kolkata college hosts national workshop on solid waste management

Mar 20, 2015, at 01:42 am

Kolkata, Mar 19 (IBNS): National Workshop on Solid Waste Management was organized on Thursday by Department of Chemical Engineering , Heritage Institute of Technology Kolkata under TEQIP-II.

Shell announces winners of Junior National Science Scholarship 2014-15

Mar 19, 2015, at 12:25 am

New Delhi /Kolkata, Mar 18 (IBNS): Shell, one of the most diversified international investors in India's energy sector, among all global integrated oil companies, has announced winners of its third 'Shell Junior National Science Scholarship' programme 2014-2015.

Canada, Germany preferred countries after USA to study abroad: Survey

Mar 17, 2015, at 02:17 am

New Delhi, Mar 16 (IBNS): For past many years, a majority of Indian students are seen shifting to foreign institutes in order to procure their choice of education.

Oxfam demands full implementation of the RTE Act within next 3 years: Haq Banta Hai

Mar 15, 2015, at 06:45 pm

The historic Right to Education (RTE) Act came into force in April 2010. The Act provisions for 8 years of free and compulsory education for all the children between 6 and 14 years. Thanks to RTE Act, today 199 million children are in school and studying. However, still 6 million children are out of school and majority (75%) of those out of school children belong to Dalit (32.4%), Tribal (16.6%) and Muslim (25.7%) communities alone.

BML Munjal University introduces Forensic Accounting MBA in India

Mar 11, 2015, at 04:18 pm

Kolkata, Mar 11 (IBNS): BML Munjal University (BMU), founded by The Hero Group, is launching a two-year full-time MBA programme in 'Accounting and Finance' with a focus on Forensic Accounting and Corporate Fraud.

Heritage Academy Kolkata celebrates Women's Day

Mar 10, 2015, at 04:35 am

Kolkata, Mar 9 (IBNS): The Heritage Academy Kolkata celebrated Women's Day on Monday by organizing a seminar on Women Leadership in Educational Institutions and Corporates.

J&K: Educational institutions to re-open from Monday

Mar 08, 2015, at 05:05 am

Srinagar, Mar 7 (IBNS) The Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered that all the state-run educational institutions shall re-open on Monday.

BML Munjal University introduces Forensic Accounting MBA in India

Mar 06, 2015, at 05:43 pm

Kolkata, Mar 6 (IBNS) BML Munjal University (BMU), founded by The Hero Group, is launching a two-year full-time MBA programme in 'Accounting and Finance' with a focus on Forensic Accounting and Corporate Fraud.

E.S.L. Narasimhan inaugurates teacher's conference in Hyderabad

Feb 28, 2015, at 04:03 am

Hyderabad, Feb 27 (IBNS): The British Council in association with the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad (EFL-U) on Friday inaugurated the fifth International English Language Teacher Educator Conference (TEC 15), one of the world's largest conferences of English language teacher educators in the world.

Sasikumar Punnekat appointed as BITS Pilani Director

Feb 27, 2015, at 05:08 am

New Delhi, Feb 26 (IBNS): BITS Pilani on Thursday announced the joining of Sasikumar Punnekkat as the Director and Sr. Professor (Computer Science & Information Systems) at BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus on Feb 25.

Over 1,000 register for Teacher Educator Conference in Hyderabad

Feb 27, 2015, at 12:36 am

Hyderabad, Feb 26 (IBNS) Over 1,000 teacher educators, ministerial officials, heads of universities and colleges, representatives of the vocational sector, senior academic staff, directors of NGOs and policymakers from over 30 countries across the globe will be in Hyderabad from Feb 27 to March 1 to attend the fifth International English Language Teacher Educator Conference (TEC 15), one of the world’s largest conferences for English language teacher educators.

Nascomm Foundation launches Digital Literacy Week

Feb 25, 2015, at 12:01 am

Mumbai, Feb 24 (IBNS): NASSCOM Foundation kick-started the Digital Literacy Week with a target to bring digital literacy to over one lakh Indians. This initiative, is part of the National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM), and will complement the government's vision to empower at least one person per household with critical digital literacy skills by 2020.

NATCONPH 2015 takes off today

Feb 21, 2015, at 04:00 am

Kolkata, Feb 20 (IBNS): NATCONPH 2015-National Conference on 'Empowering Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Professionals-Vision 2020' was inaugurated on Friday by Subhashish Maity, Director, NSHM Knowledge Campus (Kolkata) Group of Institutions at the Ahindra Mancha in Kolkata.

Bhubaneswar: Teachers participate in British Council's education workshops

Feb 14, 2015, at 02:19 am

Bhubaneswar, Feb 13 (IBNS) Over a 100 teachers from schools across India will come together in Bhubaneswar from Feb 13 to Feb 15 to take part in professional development workshops that will teach them to enrich the curriculum.

Greater Noida gets Centre of Excellence for Entrepreneurship at BIMTECH

Feb 07, 2015, at 11:43 pm

Greater Noida Feb 7 (IBNS): A Centre of Excellence for Entrepreneurship has been set up at the Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) campus in partnership with National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) and the Wadhwani Foundation to promote entrepreneurship among students of several dozen management and engineering schools located in the Knowledge Park in Greater Noida.

XLRI announces admission to PGDM-BM Program

Feb 05, 2015, at 06:29 am

New Delhi, Feb 4 (IBNS): XLRI - Xavier School of Management on Wednesday announced admission to the ‘Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDM-BM) Program for Working Executives & Business Owners’ for the batch 2015 to 2018.

WB Guv visits Army Institute of Management Kolkata

Feb 04, 2015, at 05:10 am

Kolkata, Feb 3 (IBNS) West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on Tuesday made a special address to the students and faculty of Army Institute of Management Kolkata (AIMK) titled "Igniting Young Minds" at the Alipore campus.

CU approved certification course in financial markets launched

Feb 03, 2015, at 05:52 pm

Kolkata, Feb 3 (IBNS): The Calcutta University Calcutta Stock Exchange Centre of Excellence in Financial Markets (CUCSE CEFM) is ready to roll out its 6-7 day certification course in financial markets (basic).

ITM University student represents at Google Student Ambassador Summit

Jan 22, 2015, at 07:46 pm

New Delhi, Jan 22 (IBNS): Palash Chhabra, a student of ITM University, Gurgaon, brought laurels to the varsity after having been selected to represent his University at the highly acclaimed Google Student Ambassador Summit, which was held recently.

TCS Research Scholarship Programme expands to reach 200 more Computer Science PhD's in India

Jan 22, 2015, at 02:30 am

Mumbai/Kolkata, Jan 21 (IBNS): Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, on Wednesday announced that the company's flagship TCS Research Scholarship Programme (TCS RSP) will be extended for another five years to reach over 200 additional doctoral research scholars across India in the area of Computer Science.

Educomp to install Smartclass in 21,000 classrooms in FY15

Jan 22, 2015, at 02:18 am

Bangalore, Jan 21 (IBNS): Educomp Solutions, an education company in India, is looking to add 21,000 new classrooms under its flagship Smartclass program this fiscal.

'Wake-up call' data shows 63 million adolescents out of school – joint UN agency report

Jan 20, 2015, at 02:08 pm

New York, Jan 20 (IBNS) One in five adolescents worldwide is not in school, which means that some 63 million young people between the ages of 12 and 15 are denied their right to an education, mainly because they are marginalized and poor, a joint United Nations agency report has found as pressure mounts to include universal secondary education in the post-2015 global development agenda.

XLRI organises 7th National HR Conference

Jan 16, 2015, at 06:14 am

Jamshedpur, Jan 12 (IBNS) : B-School XLRI- Xavier School of Management recently hosted the 7th National HR Conference on Jan 10 and Jan 11at XLRI Campus here.

Global thought leaders and thinkers congregate at the inaugural Harvard US India Initiative Conference

Jan 13, 2015, at 11:17 pm

New Delhi, Jan 13 (IBNS): The Harvard College US India Initiative (HUII), an undergraduate student organization, hosted the inaugural Harvard India Initiative Conference 2015.

Jaitley, Nobel laureate attend 49th ISI convocation

Jan 10, 2015, at 07:18 am

Kolkata, Jan 9 (IBNS): The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) held their 49'th convocation here on their ISI campus in Kolkata on Friday inviting among others 2007 Economics Nobel laureate professor Eric Stark Maskin as the chief guest.

IIT-Delhi director resigns, govt denies any pressure

Dec 29, 2014, at 05:09 pm

New Delhi, Dec 29 (IBNS): The government denied that it put pressure on Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Delhi) director RK Shevgaonkar for his resignation, media reports said.

Scindia School hosts Model United Nations

Dec 24, 2014, at 05:52 am

Gwalior, Dec 23 (IBNS): More than 85 students from six prestigious schools across India participated in the Model United Nations organized recently by The Scindia School, Gwalior.