Tweet Hyderabad: The National Human Resources Development Network (NHRDN), an association of HR professionals committed to promote HRD movement in the country announced that it will undertake an independent Annual Rating and Ranking of B-Schools across India. This was announced at the concluding session of the three day 16th Annual Conference of... 

Tweet NBT-NCAER Study on Reading Habits of the Literate Youth of North-East India is out . This focused Report attempts to give an analytical and detailed account of the reading habits of the literate youth in the north-eastern states and their exposure to different forms of media, and how diverse socio-economic and motivational factors impact... 

Tweet Kozhikode: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK)  authorities on Monday said that the degree certificate issued to Nandan  R , a 33-year-old college dropout who took three major IT companies for a ride for seven years by securing jobs with them with the help of forged educational certificates. “Nandan, R during 2006-07,... 

Tweet New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Monday issued notice to the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-D) for denying admission to a student under the handicapped category on the ground that his disability was less than 40 percent. Justice Pratibha Rani sought the response of IIT-D by July 2, the next date of hearing. Petitioner Amit Kumar’s... 

Tweet New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday issued notice to the union health ministry on the plea of a medical student aspiring to get admission into a post-graduate course under the all-India quota in government colleges in the various states. On petitioner Isha Karwasra’s plea, the apex court vacation bench of Justice H.L. Gokhale and... 

Tweet New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-Delhi) Thursday also revolted against the human resource development ministry’s move for a common entrance test and decided to hold its own entrance exam from 2013. “We have rejected the governments’ proposal and instead would be having our own separate test,”... 

Tweet New Delhi: A total of 325 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) aspirants are likely to be affected if the quashing of 4.5 percent sub-quota for minorities in central institutions was not stayed, the government told the Supreme Court Wednesday. Additional Solicitor General Gourab Banerji told this to the apex court bench of Justice K. Radhakrishnan... 

Tweet New Delhi: A Delhi court has awarded a man three years rigorous imprisonment for his involvement in a case of impersonation in an AIIMS entrance examination. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shailender Malik sentenced Alok Kumar to three years in jail and slapped a fine of Rs.6,000 on him in a recent order, a Central Bureau of Investigation... 

Tweet New Delhi: Expressing concern over the “poor quality” of teachers, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Tuesday said they needed to be paid more to ensure quality education — a point that was well received by the teaching fraternity. Some teachers also felt that low salaries were responsible for the coaching culture. Speaking... 

Tweet New Delhi: The shortfall of teaching staff in universities across states has drawn the attention of a parliamentary panel which has slammed the human resource development (HRD) ministry for the “discouraging ” situation. It says in 24 central universities across 16 states, on an average 35 percent of teaching posts are lying vacant. The...