Terming it as a sensitive issue, the Supreme Court on Friday said it will devise an effective mechanism to combat caste-based discrimination in educational institutions in the country. IMAGE: A......
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the University Grants Commission to specify steps it has taken and proposed to take, to provide non-discriminatory, enabling environment for the students......
'Providing funds and autonomy to a few institutions that may not have the intent to excel must not become a case of trying to feed those who are not hungry and starving those who are famished,'......
It might have been a good idea to avoid political subservience of higher education and to ensure its autonomy, but recent experiences demand immediate reforms. The provincial universities have......
What stood out in his 15-year journey as a member of the political executive at the Centre was his glowing record as India's most successful and effective finance minister. Both as prime minister......
Private and foreign corporate investment may soon get to flow into Indian higher education with the government considering a move to reform policy that hinders such financing. Currently, it is......
Days after Congress president Sonia Gandhi said that she personally favoured private sector participation in education, a Group of Ministers on Tuesday cleared a proposed legislation that will......
University Grants Commission Chairman Sukhadeo Thorat talks on the state of higher education in the country. The Eleventh Five-Year Plan aims at increasing the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in......
'The government should come back as a job creator as it did in the 1960s and the 1970s.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE),......
With over a million Indians residing in the UAE, there is need to set up more Indian institutes of higher education in the emirates, Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh has said."We......