A simple degree or a normal two-year advance course is passe. Educational institutions have designed tailor-made, industry-specific courses in areas like real estate management and carbon credit to lure students to distance education."Today a th ..

As Delhi University Monday launches its admission process for the new academic session beginning in July, police have taken several measures to provide security to tens of thousands of students and their parents who will be thronging the north campus ..

Science students in Jharkhand have performed poorly in the state board's class 12 exams, the results of which were announced Saturday.The pass percentage in science subjects was only 50.35 percent, down from more than 70 percent in 2008. However, ..

Every weekend children of Koonankoppalu village in Karnataka eagerly await visiting teachers from India's tech hub to help them with mathematics, English and science.The village, around 120 km from Bangalore, boasts of one government-run primary  ..

With more attacks being reported on Indian students in Australia Friday, its government assured India that the students would be protected from violence that is perceived to be racist and is leading to growing insecurity among more than 80,000 studen ..

An Indian student sustained burn injuries after a petrol bomb was thrown into his apartment in Sydney, said an Indian community leader. This incident took the number of such assaults in Australia to four in the past three weeks.Hospitality graduate R ..

Microsoft has unveiled a new search engine named Bing, renewing its efforts to challenge the dominance of Google in the Internet search market.The company said the new service will begin to roll out over the coming days and will be fully deployed wor ..

It was a dream come true for Kavya Shivashankar as she made history by lifting the Scripps National Spelling Bee trophy to bring a third back-to-back victory of the prestigious championship to an Indian American kid.Tears welled up in the eyes of Kav ..

A day after Income Tax (IT) raids on four coaching institutes in this Bihar capital led to seizure of nearly Rs.10 million in cash and undeclared investments worth many millions more, parents and students said they are shocked that the centres were m ..

he Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNV) - autonomous schools under the human resource development ministry - outshone all other schools across India with a whopping 97.84 pass percentage in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 10 exams  ..

As many as 47,821 students scored 90 percent or above in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 10 exams, whose results were announced Friday; 4,933 scored 95 percent and above.There was a whopping increase in the number of students wh ..

Students from the Gulf region have outperformed their Indian counterparts, recording a whopping 97.66 pass percentage in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 10 results declared Friday.The pass percentage of students in India was 88. ..

The number of cheating cases in the Central Board of Secondary Education Examination (CBSE) Class 10 exam has dipped to less than half the figure last year. Nonetheless, Delhi has topped the list.According to CBSE spokesperson Rama Sharma, the number ..

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Friday announced the results of the Class 10 board examination for the Delhi, Guwahati and Allahabad regions.Anxious students and parents made a beeline to cyber cafes as the results were uploaded on th ..

Delhi University (DU) is getting on the e-technology fast lane. The ministry of human resource development has handed a pilot project to the varsity which may lead it to becoming the national centre for e-content development.A.K. Bakshi, director of  ..

Fourteen Indian American kids have made it to the semi finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest with three of them among top contenders for the title won by a boy of Indian descent last year.Indian origin kids who were among the 41 making  ..

The University Grants Commission (UGC) Wednesday issued guidelines for a national call centre to be set up to enable ragging victims from across the country to register their complaints by dialling a toll free number."The Education Consultancy I ..

The Supreme Court Wednesday disapproved of protests by students on college campuses scornfully wondering if the protesters think they were "Mahatama Gandhi" practising his act of resistance "satyagraha".A vacation bench of Justice ..

To curb the "menace" of corporal punishment in schools, a foundation was launched Wednesday named after Shanno Khan, the 11-year-old Delhi girl, who died after slipping into coma following alleged punishment by a teacher."We pledge and ..

Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse has joined hands with British fashion house PPQ to launch her own designer collection.Femalefirst.co.uk reports, the singer has finalised talks with bosses at the brand and is now set to produce her own range for ..