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Adityanath should save more money, close all hospitals: Rahul's fresh
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday fired a fresh salvo at the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh Government over the slash on free laptops for meritorious students and allocation for secondary and higher education in the newly-presented state bu
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NITI Aayog CEO pushes for reforms in India's over-regulated higher ed
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Friday pitched for more rapid reforms in India's higher education sector.
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Higher education to play pivotal role in bridging India's skill gap:
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): IBM has announced a study conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit, to evaluate India's growing skills challenge and proposed recommendations to bridge the gap.
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IIT hosts international conclave on higher education
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 12 (ANI-Businesswire India): The International Conclave on "India: The Global Destination for Higher Education" was organized by IIT Kharagpur Alumni Foundation (India) here in collaboration with Pan IIT Alumni India.
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Coursera secures USD 64 mn in Series D; aims to strengthen global reach
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New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): Online platform for higher education Coursera has announced receiving of USD 64 million in Series D funding round, which will enable the company's total capital raised to date to USD 210.3 million.
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President Mukherjee pitches for enhanced higher education in India
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Phagwara (Punjab) [India], May 2 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday reiterated his call for enhancing the quality of basic as well as applied research in institutions of higher learning in India.
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Sustaining higher education has become a major challenge: President
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Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Apr 26 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said today sustaining and reinvigorating higher education, in India as well as in other parts of the world, has become a major challenge, especially so in public institutions.
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My Vande Mataram statement taken 'out of context', says Uttarakh
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New Delhi [India], Apr. 7 (ANI): After suggesting that Vande Mataram, the national song, and Jana Gana Mana, the national anthem, be sung compulsorily in colleges in Uttarakhand, Minister of State for Higher Education Dhan Singh Rawat on Friday said his statement had been taken out of contex
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Ashoka University hosts its First International Educators conference
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New Delhi [India], Mar 23 (ANI-BusinessWireIndia): Ashoka University, a Liberal Arts University in India, hosted its first International Educators Conference 2017 on March 17, 2017. In line with the University's vision to emerge as a global institution and put India on the world educati
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Balochistan Higher Education Secy abducted in Quetta
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Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar. 15 (ANI): Armed men kidnapped Balochistan Higher Education Secretary Abdullah Jan in Quetta on Wednesday morning, according to sources.
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Pak minister's proposal to make hijab mandatory sets off furore
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], Mar. 15 (ANI): Punjab Higher Education Minister Syed Raza Ali Gilani's proposal to make hijab mandatory for government college girls and offering them "extra" marks for covering themselves up has set off a furore.
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Indian institutions can be amongst world's best: Prez
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New Delhi [India], Mar. 8 (ANI): Congratulating the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, for figuring in the list of top 10 institutions in the 'Best Small Universities' category of the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings 2017, President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday sa
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