National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research (NITTTR), Kolkata, is organizing `National Innovation Talent Contest for Polytechnics’ in three major conventional disciplines– Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. The key objective is to identify the levels of skill and innovation potentials of the students, teachers, and technical staff members of polytechnics and to develop cost effective technological support …

An Indian delegation of 35 senior and middle-level academic and non-academic staff from 13 institutions besides ministry of HRD officials visited UK a couple of weeks back to learn more about how UK universities operate, and with the hope of exploring potential partnerships in the future. The visitors were in the UK as part of a leadership and management training …

EVEN AS A DELHI HIGH court order on February 16, 2016 restored management quota for nearly 3000 private unaided schools offering nursery admission in Delhi, the issue of nursery admissions will continue to rant in the national capital this year too in coming weeks as the process of admission draws to a close on March 31. The Delhi government, which …

The draft Bill of the Government of India’s initiative to set up National Skills Universities across the Country is under inter-ministerial consultation.  The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajiv Pratap Rudy has said that the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship had constituted a Working Group to explore the feasibility for setting up of National …

Prof Rupamanjari Ghosh has been appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University. She has been the Director of the School of Natural Sciences at SNU since 2012 and now will also hold additional responsibility of heading the School of Engineering. She succeeds Dr. Nikhil Sinha the Founding Vice-Chancellor. Ghosh holds a PhD from the University of Rochester, …

The Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) on December 15, 2015 announced the winners of the Infosys Prize 2015 across six categories: Engineering and Computer Science, Humanities, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences. The prize for each category consists of a purse of Rs. 65 Lakhs, a 22 karat gold medallion and a citation certificate. S. D. Shibulal, President, …