The United States has always been a popular destination for Indian students and has become even more popular with unattractiveness of the alternatives. Recent Council of Graduate Studies (CGS) data, confirms increasing interest of Indian students for graduate programs in the US and also the diversion of some traffic from Australia and the UK due [...]
Though commerce was my subject in school, I was always more interested in pursuing a career in print journalism. To follow this dream I enrolled in a Bachelor’s programme in political science at Miranda House. While studying political science, my interest in journalism grew and I decided to be a political journalist. While doing my [...]
Gone are the days when being apolitical was politically incorrect. Today, the young Indian is not hesitant to speak his mind. Some believe that politics serves as a catalyst to develop one’s critical thinking skills, while others are sceptical when it comes to student-politics. A handful, on the other hand, is convinced that college [...]
Mumbai: A day after TOI reported about eight students who despite scoring above 80% in their Std-X board exams were dropped out of the online admission process owing to a technical snag, the deputy director of education office on Thursday plans to issue a show cause notice to the junior college that was supposed to [...]
Mumbai: It’s long been known that Indian students outperform their global counterparts in science and math. But here’s a stunning finding: even students whose mother tongue is an Indian language fare better in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (Toefl) than those whose native language is English. That’s according to a recent analysis [...]
Tree House Education & Accessories Ltd, which manages and runs pre-schools in India, has raised 170.8 million rupees from two anchor investors. The company has allocated 1.26 million shares at 135 rupees each to Rising India Focus Fund and Axis Mutual Fund, it said in a statement. Tree House, whose issue opens on Aug 10 [...]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that students aggrieved with their examination scores, including Stds X and XII, entrance exams for professional courses as well as job recruitment tests, can now take a look at how they were evaluated by moving an application under the Right to Information Act. So far, only [...]
This year, the Common Admission Test (CAT) will have only two sections instead of three. While the first section will focus on quantitative ability and data interpretation, the second section will focus on verbal ability and logical reasoning, with 30 questions each. Also, the duration of the test will be of 140 minutes [...]
Coming from a rural background, I have always felt that despite a strong democracy, equal development is still a distant dream in our country. India has made a lot of progress on all fronts, but a major section of the society is still underprivileged and devoid of basic health and education facilities. India is an emerging economy [...]
Mumbai: University students,especially from engineering,who are seeking admissions abroad,are in trouble due to delayed results.The university which earlier sent confidential scores to the universities abroad (before the results were declared) after evaluating the papers of interested candidates are unable to do so this year.Though officials claim there is no problem in the process,students have been [...]