The central government has approved the plan to set up an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in West Bengal, the state's Information Technology Minister Debesh Das said here on Thursday."The government of West Bengal has got a ..

One of the most enduring family-room debates, "what should our child study?" is undergoing a transformation, probably led by the fact that the line between a once trite graduate course and an intense professional programme is blurring.India ..

It was a reality check for Delhi University administration on Wednesday when over 1,000 students from across colleges and departments voiced their concern over absentee teachers. The students also raised the problem of inadequate infrastructure and s ..

It seems Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) students will have to wait more before their campus becomes WiFi enabled.The authorities had earlier announced that they would make the campus WiFi enabled in 2010, but at present, only the university lib ..

Having gone through tough times during global recession, a city youth returned to Ludhiana on Wednesday to share his experience with the students and advised them on how to chart their career.A former student of Guru Nanak Institute of Management and ..

Bangalore University (BU) has come up with a vision document for 2020, which has many measures to improve academic atmosphere. One such important measure is to convert existing departments into schools and initiate inter-disciplinary collaborative re ..

The United States has assured India of providing 'fair solution' to Indian students affected by the closer of California-based Tri-Valley University, which has been accused of a massive visa fraud.The under-secretary of state for political af ..

Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) will approach its board next month to seek approval for its foray into education. The corporation is likely to get into this activity through a separate entity.Speaking to TOI, Renu Karnad, MD, said that ..

The stocks of India's top-tier IT companies are more expensive than those of global tech giants like IBM and Accenture. At the close of trading on February 11, Infosys was trading at the BSE at a price earnings (P/E) ratio of 30.69, while the cor ..

The severe lull in the software or IT sector seems to be dying down slowly. Experts feel that there may not be a cracking boom, but the growth is going to be slow and steady. As per a NASSCOM estimate the annual growth is likely to tick around 16.4 p ..

That the Information Technology (IT) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sectors are on a roll is no longer news. The sectors indeed are booming and with them the job market.Thanks to the burgeoning demand for skilled human resources, allied secto ..

The fate of nearly 25 lakh students who applied for the fee reimbursement scheme and scholarships this year to pursue various professional and other higher education courses hangs in the balance with the state government failing to meet the deadline  ..

The threat of indefinite closure of the professional colleges continues to loom large as the talks between their managements and the Group of Ministers (GoM) did not yield positive results for the second consecutive day on Saturday.The managements co ..

Attending lectures in the classroom or via videoconferencing will be a thing of the past.Students can now watch lectures ‘live’ on their smart phones. Experts at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) have developed an automate ..

The four students have told the police officials that they were promised admissions by Hemant Zhala and Mitesh Patel for a huge sum. They told the students that they will admit them in the faculty on the senate members' quota.Sources said that it ..

Information technology (IT) and IIT are the in-thing, but what does it mean when IT engineers and  IIT grads want to turn pilots? That's exactly what's happening in the IAF.IAF pilots at Aero India told The Times of India: "Very rec ..

In order to prepare a trained army of professionals in the field of IT, to combat the growing menace of cyber crimes in the country, the ministry of human resources development (HRD) has decided to establish an institute which would specialise in tac ..

Driven by increasing demand for their services from clients in the US and Europe and desperate to fill in the vacancies, IT companies are looking beyond the big league engineering colleges and scouting more and more engineering campuses for talented  ..

Aimed at encouraging innovative defence products in the country, the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has decided to fund defence scientists who want to set up small scale industries."We will soon come up with a techno park p ..

The Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) has announced March 6 as date of entrance examination for entry to popular Master of Computer Application (MCA) course. The 'MAH-MCA-CET 2011' would be conducted from 2 pm and results would be anno ..