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MUMBAI: The nearly identical question papers for a Mumbai University exam and a prelim of SIES College may have been due to the fact that the person who set the [...]

MUMBAI: After the delay caused in evaluating the answer scripts of third-year commerce students, the University of Mumbai has decided to allow assessment work to be carried out in certain [...]

CHANDIGARH: Many candidates for Panjab University Campus Student Council (PUCSC) elections in city's colleges filed nominations on Tuesday. There was hectic political activity in colleges with student unions forging new [...]

LUCKNOW: In a major embarrassment to the UP government, the CBI raided the Lucknow College of Technology and Management (LCTM), which was being allowed to run without any building and [...]

MUMBAI: Several junior college teachers across the city have decided to join the boycott of HSC answer scripts' evaluation till their demands are met. These include payment of salaries according [...]

KOLKATA: Though the nomenclature has changed on paper and the institution stands upgraded to a university, the name Presidency College is here to stay. The famous clock tower of the [...]

BANGALORE: Students can now answer their question paper on mobile phones. And teachers can mark their attendance on that too. This is what Seshadripuram First Grade College, Yelahanka, in Bangalore [...]

MUMBAI: Just a day after TOI reported that an entire batch of students who appeared for their MA Part I political science exam from a single college failed the paper, [...]

MUMBAI: Shamsi Obaid, a Std XII student from Bhavan's College in Chowpatty, who lost his hall ticket prior to the English paper on Friday, was not allowed to appear for [...]

JAIPUR: For the first time, University of Rajasthan (RU) is felicitating its seven faculty members for their contribution in the field of research and the number of research papers presented [...]

MUMBAI: Educationists have been crying themselves hoarse that today's degrees are not worth the paper they are printed on. Now, the University of Mumbai seems to be going all out [...]

MUMBAI: Mumbai University has dashed off showcause notices to 582 lecturers, who have not corrected answer papers after the March-April examinations. Ironically, over 100 teachers, who completed the mandatory assessment [...]

KOLKATA: Is Kolkata going back to the dark days of campus violence of the Seventies? On a single day, a college student was brutally murdered in Howrah and another was [...]

VADODARA/ANAND: Both Sardar Patel University (SPU) in Vallabh Vidyanagar and M S University of Baroda have earned a 'PURSE' from the Department of Science and Technology (DST). Under a newly [...]

PUNE: Despite elaborate anti-ragging measures in place, the administration of the College of Agriculture, Pune (CoAP) was caught off guard over the alleged ragging row late on Monday night. This [...]

DHARWAD: The connoisseurs of art and music in north Karnataka will have a cultural feast for two days in the last week of November with SDM College of Engineering and [...]

CHENNAI: Following the violence at the Jeppiaar Engineering College, a self-financing technical institution on Old Mahabalipuram Road, the college administration has declared a week's holiday for its students. A parent-teacher [...]

BEIJING: Efforts by a university in Xian in northwest China to promote stand-up urinals for female students has come up for severe criticism by a section of pupils and their [...]

LUCKNOW: The law students pursuing LLb (Hons) in the Lucknow University who failed in the third year of their examinations have a reason to smile now, because the admission committee [...]

HYDERABAD: As many as 530 medical students from affiliated colleges of NTR Health University alleged the university authorities of failing them intentionally. The students alleged that evaluation in the university [...]

A man in his mid-sixties was walking slowly down College Street on Thursday morning when he paused, looked at a banner, and painfully walked over. Peering through thick glasses, he [...]

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala's Newman College lecturer T J Joseph, whose hand was allegedly chopped off by radicals, is now battling the Church. The Kothamangalam diocese of the Syro-Malabar church on Sunday [...]

KOLKATA: In what may be called an end to the Anil Biswas legacy when party comrades were hand-picked and placed in decision-making bodies of educational institutions from university syndicates to [...]

NAGPUR: It took over a decade for the Maharashtra government to correct a small mistake, which had in the meanwhile caused unnecessary work pressure on traditional universities and expense of [...]

LUCKNOW: In its first meeting, the executive council of Urdu, Arabic-Persian University decided to offer some selected courses from the session starting July, 2011. The diploma courses of Arabic-Persian translator [...]

HYDERABAD: There was mild tension at Narayana Junior College at Mehdipatnam, when a bottle containing a suspicious substance was found in a toilet on the fifth floor of the college [...]

BANGALORE: Colleges affiliated to Bangalore University are racing against time. With the university fixing August 14 as the last date for enrolment to degree courses, they're finding it difficult to [...]

Before the start of the new academic session, vice-chancellor, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University (CSMU), Prof Harsh Kumar Sehgal has directed all affiliated colleges not to impose dress code upon students. [...]

LUCKNOW: Most colleges in the city are in need of extra seats for BCom course to meet its increasing demand among the students. For instance, despite having 750 seats, both [...]

PUNE: They dreamed, they toiled and they scored. When city colleges drew up a list of their higher secondary school toppers based on the marks on Monday, it was time [...]

BANGALORE: A colourful rangoli at the entrance, a huge banner saying 'Welcome to College', sugar candy for new comers... Colleges are getting ready to welcome their new students. With hardly [...]

MUMBAI: 'This has been our all-time high score and we are really happy and excited ,' said an ecstatic Indu Shahani, principal of H R College at Churchgate, which has [...]

CHENNAI: The state government's move to restore the Anna University in Chennai into a unitary-type university has hit the roadblock with the governor Surjit Singh Barnala raising over a dozen [...]

NEW DELHI: There is a stark difference between the hype around higher education and the real picture. The top 22 universities in India have 34% vacancy in teaching jobs. Twenty-two [...]

CHENNAI: Refusing to give its stamp of approval for the medical degrees awarded by the Salem-based Vinayaka Mission University's off-shore facility in Thailand, the Madras high court has declined to [...]

SURAT: Strange incidents during the annual examinations at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU) have put at stake the future of its 1.50 lakh students. When the state government is [...]

LUCKNOW: The fraud of the Swatantra Girls Degree College is out in the open completely. Lucknow University (LU) might have erred on verifying the credentials of the college earlier. But [...]

MUMBAI: It's a battle every year for lakhs of students as they try to force their way into the top colleges, but many of these institutes don't even bother to [...]

AHMEDABAD: Twenty-two-year-old youth Jayesh Patel, who was arrested recently for stealing women's purse, has turned out to be a habitual offender. The youth had been expelled from his college in [...]

PATNA: Quietitude in Patna higher education was shattered when, on Monday, BCA Part-III examinees resorted to violence and vandalism after boycotting the examination at the A N College centre here. [...]

With 466 universities, thousands of colleges and 13 million students enrolled in them, quantity has never been a problem with higher education in India. Ensuring quality is another matter. Will [...]

PUNE: Sample this: More than 65 of the 587 colleges under the University of Pune (UoP) continue to run without a single approved teaching and non-teaching staffer, leave alone a [...]

PUNE: The University of Pune (UoP) has held its maiden entrance test for PhD enrolments, but confusion prevails over how to go ahead with effecting admissions, following the test. At [...]

NEW DELHI: The agitation at Delhi Technological University (DTU) intensified with thousands of students boycotting their exams on Monday, defying appeals by the authorities. The action forced the administration to [...]

MUMBAI: The vice-principal of Thane's Parshwanath College of Engineering was arrested by the Kasarvadavali police last week following a complaint filed by lady staff members and students alleging sexual harassment. [...]

LUCKNOW: The higher education teachers in UP and the state government are already at loggerheads over the non-payment of arrears under revised pay scales. Now a government order (GO) has [...]

MUMBAI: Schools and junior colleges across Maharashtra, which diligently reported cases of cheating, have been issued show-cause notices from the state board. Shockingly, the board wants to know why they [...]

AHMEDABAD: Exams in Sahajanand College were cancelled on Friday following the clash between a lecturer and head of his department in the office of the college principal on Thursday. College [...]

KOLKATA: When schools are busy debating the no-detention principle till Class VIII, Calcutta University, once known for its archaic examination rules and conservative marking, has chalked out a flexible, no-detention [...]

MANIPAL: Manipal University and the University of Kentucky, USA, have signed a co-operative agreement to facilitate exchange of faculty and students, to undertake joint research activities and also for joint [...]