Indian institutes continued to perform poorly in global university rankings with Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore sliding in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2018 published on Tuesday. Though IISc remained the top university in India, it was placed in the 251-300 groupings of the best universities, a fall from the 201-250 […]
The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIMB) will, on Thursday, inaugurate the India-Japan Study Centre on its campus to promote understanding between the two Asian countries through research, teaching and policy outreach efforts. IIMB director G Raghuram said, “At macro level, there are complementary factors between India and Japan in the sphere of economic development. We […]
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017-2018 place Newcastle University 175th in the world, up from its position of 190th in 2016. The University scored particularly highly in the research and international outlook components of the survey, ranked in the top 100 for its proportion of international staff. Professor Chris Day, Vice-Chancellor and President, Newcastle […]
Among the Indian students who wish to pursue higher education abroad, Singapore has always been the preferred destination, and Singapore’s MDIS has been topping the list among the most reputed educational institutions. The institute has plethora of courses to offer in Management and Engineering fields and is known to introduce new courses in the emerging […]
Rahul got 14/15 of his questions correct in the first round of Child Genius show. He has an IQ of 162, higher than the likes of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. 20 contestants aged 8-12 will be whittled down to one winner in TV show A 12-year-old Indian-origin contestant on a British television show has […]
In the wake of unscrupulous agents duping students who failed to get a medical seat in the college of their choice by promising to get them guaranteed admission, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has issued an advisory stating that all admissions for the 2017-18 academic year will be based on common counselling alone. The […]
The Indian Navy has invited applications from unmarried, male/female Engineers for admission to Short Service Commission in Technical Branch (General Service/Naval Architecture), commencing on July, 2018 at Indian Naval Academy (INA) Ezhimala, Kerala, leading to Short Service Commission (SSC) as Officers in Executive Branch (General Service/Hydro Cadre)/Technical Branch (General service/Naval Architecture) and as Permanent Commission […]
Internships for engineering students has been in news for some time. But the latest news is that the students have to do at least three internships. These internships are to be of 4-8 weeks and are to take place before graduation As per the new action plan of the All India Council for Technical Education […]
Some of the post-graduate courses offered by Bangalore University seem to be no longer attractive.With the admission season for post graduate courses for the academic year 2017-18 concluding recently, the data available with the university shows that some of the PG courses have had admissions in single digits. For example, MA in Sanskrit has received […]
An independent student survey has firmly positioned Newcastle as one of the best universities in the UK for student satisfaction. Published on 9 August, the latest National Student Survey (NSS) shows that 88% of students are satisfied with their experience at Newcastle University – placing it joint 15th in the UK when considered against comparator […]