All-boys schools are booming in Britain as more and more parents are now shunning the idea of co-ed institutions as those apparently lead boys to act "tough" or "play the fool".There has been a recent surge in the number of pupils ..

Extending a friendly hand towards the common people of India, US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer Friday did voluntary service at a New Delhi Municipal Council school here.The US ambassador, along with his wife Sally, his children and other participants  ..

Air India has appointed Ramco Systems, a city-based software solutions provider, for designing an software package for its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility, a spokesperson of the national carrier said here Friday.AI plans to bring all  ..

President Pratibha Patil Friday said India intended to increase enrolment in higher education from the present 14 million to about 40 million."Higher education has been accorded priority in our country. It is our aim to increase gross enrolment  ..

Many students from India's Punjab state are facing frustration as they are being denied fee refunds by some colleges in Australia, and an educational consultant said that "we are sick and tired".The Indian students are seeking fee refun ..

Yale University is planning to grow ties with India to at least equal its ties with China and make it a leading university in the US for teaching of India, according to a media report.Yale was earlier "devoting pretty large resources to China,&q ..

A top Canadian university will confer an honorary doctorate degree on former Indian president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam next week.The University of Waterloo, in the city of BlackBerry, will host the renowned space scientist and honour him with an honorary d ..

Seven Indian students have been selected by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) for prestigious Australian Leadership Award (ALA) scholarship, it was announced Tuesday."I congratulate the seven outstanding people who hav ..

Global testing and assessment service provider Prometric, which was responsible for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 - the entrance examination for Indian Institutes of Management and other leading management institutions - Tuesday assured a hass ..

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), the largest in the world, will open study centres in six European nations, including Germany and France, to offer personalised courses, its Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai has said."We ..

PanIIT, an alumni association of seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), will hold a conclave next month in which nealy 5,000 engineers will participate, officials said Tuesday.The three-day conclave, scheduled to be held from Oct 29-31 in Noida ..

The All India Management Association (AIMA) will hold a new online test in February next year to evaluate B-School students on their employability in line with the current industry trends."This test will certify and check the students of their r ..

As part of its initiative to integrate modern technology in distance education, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) said Tuesday it would provide a certificate programme in English through Nokia phone's Ovi Life Tools."We will ..

Seven Indian students have been selected by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) for prestigious Australian Leadership Award (ALA) scholarship, it was announced Tuesday."I congratulate the seven outstanding people who hav ..

UAE's Education Minister Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan Saturday opened the 23rd conference of the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT).Economy Minister Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, senior officials and HCT's teaching staff attended the  ..

India is set to become a major scientific player in 20 years, provided there is a favourable environment for innovations and structural and administrative reforms are undertaken, said a vision document released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturd ..

An institute here has started a 10-week Chinese-speaking course for foreign diplomats, a media report said Sunday.Fifty-six diplomats from 26 countries will attend the course every weekend, China Daily reported.The programme was launched Saturday by  ..

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) University kickstarted its three-day green cultural festival 'Aahvaan 2010' Friday. This year's theme 'Towards zilch lifestyle' is aimed at promoting a zero waste lifestyle."All the a ..

Cash-strapped universities and colleges in California will get more than $200 million in stimulus funds that will allow many campuses to admit new students, restore courses and retain faculty and staff, a media report said Friday.The University of Ca ..

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has begun a three-day meeting of its international partner institutions to make its programmes more viable.The fifth coordinators’ meet began Wednesday and is organised by IGNOU's Internati ..