Category: News
IIT Madras to Create Women Entrepreneurs with their New Training Program
The Initiative Hopping on the Entrepreneur bandwagon, Indian Institute of Technology Madras launched a new initiative. IIT Madras is preparing to train 300 micro and marginal women entrepreneurs. This initiative is in collaboration with with CAMS (Computer Age Management Services)...
Delhi Government stops funding of 28 DU Colleges
Ban on Funding of 28 DU Colleges The Delhi government on Monday, July 30th ordered a stop on the funding of 28 Delhi University colleges. Colleges that are either fully or partially funded by the government are part of this...
Demat Account for Educational Certificates
In a historic move,NDSL has decided to start out Demat Account for Educational Certificates. It has started the process of dematerialising education certificates.NDSL(National Securities Depository Limited) is an arm of depository services provider. This move will help in removing the need of physical...
Lok sabha passes the IIM Bill giving autonomy to IIMs across country
In what Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar describes as “Historic”, Lok Sabha on Friday, July 28th Passed the IIM Bill. The bill grants statutory powers to all the IIMs in their running including appointment of directors, faculty members besides...
Three Internships Mandatory for All Engineering Courses.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said that a compulsion of summer internships will be levied on Engineering colleges. Till now only reputed engineering colleges had made internships mandatory. This in turn has been leaving many graduate engineers at...
Indian online education would be worth $1.96 billion by 2021
Search giant Google and the professional service firm KPMG recently conducted a survey on e-education market in India. Most Noteworthy results of the report was how online education in India would reach to worth $1.96 billion by 2021. So this...
Brain Gain than Brain Drain says Prakash Javadekar
Over the years, no other country has seen brain drain as much as India. Half of the world runs on Indian Brains including brands like Pepsico, google, Microsoft and Adobe. India is still spending huge on its education system and...
Is the charm fading with 5916 seats vacant in Engineering?
It’s the time of year when colleges and students alike are seeking admissions and steeping into a new educational year. Amidst all the cut offs and screenings, admissions this year is seeing a fallout especially IITs. It is reported that...
IIT Madras conducts its Summer 2017 Summit in California
IIT Madras in California The Foundation Series – Summer 2017 Summit at Santa Clara, California, organised by the IIT Foundation, recently brought together the IIT Madras community, faculty, start-ups and alumni to collaborate with each other and with innovators in...
This academic year sees 9% dropouts in IIT
Year 2016-2017 sees 9% Dropout in IITs The Latest data released by the ministry of human resources development (MHRD) states that Indian Institutes of Technology have seen 9% (889) drop out in the 2016-17 academic year. 71% (630) were PG students, 196...