HEERA, Higher Education Empowerment Regulatory Authority is proposed by central government to replace the existing education regulators AICTE and UGC to bring more transparency, autonomy and excellence in technical and non-technical education in India. HEERA proposes to bring the technical and non technical higher education under single roof eliminating the two parallel regulators. The University […]
This year prove to be a good year for the IITs. Earlier in the QS World University Rankings 2018, IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay along with IISc ranked among world’s top 200 universities and now a record two fold jump in girls snaring jobs at IIT Madras placements 2016-17, almost double as many as last […]
For the sixth year running, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) leads the way among top Universities in the World by the QS World University Rankings. Stanford and Harvard retained their positions in second and third place, while Caltech rose one place to fourth to displace the University of Cambridge. Last week, Quacquarelli Symnonds (QS) has released the […]
BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus invited researchers and students to present their research findings in an International Conference on Nano and Functional Materials (NFM-2017) organizing by Department of Chemistry on 16–18 November 2017. The Objective of the conference is to expose the students & researchers with the recent advances in the fields of nano-materials and functional materials […]
A bill has been re-introduced in the House of Representatives seeking exemption for foreigners with an American PhD in science, technology, engineering or mathematics to benefit Indians given that they constitute the largest number. This exemption is from the limits on the number of employment-based green cards and H1B visa awarded annually. Introduced by Congressmen Erik Paulsen […]
The Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) has announced the availability of the Karnataka PGCET 2017 application form for the postgraduate admissions (M.Tech, MCA, MBA) in the state. The examination is commenced for granting admission to full-time and part-time postgraduate courses offered by government/private aided/private un-aided educational institutions situated in the limits of Karnataka state. The last date to […]
Campus Placements for country’s premium engineering institutes falls down for this 2016-17 academic year compare to last year placements records. One third of the IITians graduating this academic year either wasn’t found suitable for the job offer in campus placement or didn’t meet their expected job. The number of placement offers come down to 66%, even the number of […]
The IIT council, the top decision making and governing body of the country’s premier engineering colleges IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology), has cleared a proposal for one year executive MTech course designed for professionals short of time to do a full two-year term. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Human Resource Development minister […]
As interest of the students for the course varies and the employment, placement opportunities are limited for some courses, some of the premier technology institutes of country are tweaking the number of students in some of those courses. They are introducing new or interdisciplinary programmes in keeping with a government directive to plan their courses […]
With a recent report suggesting that as much as 95% of engineering graduates from Asia’s third-largest economy are unfit for programming jobs, there’s been an on-and-off debate around employability of India’s Engineers , an issue that rears its head every now and then. This year, Indian techies are having a tough year, accused for stealing […]
Around 80 percent of the financial needs of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and their entire capital costs are currently funded by the government. After hiking the course fee for their undergraduate courses, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are seeking to hike their PG courses fee by six fold. IITs want a six-fold […]
The application form for IIT Hyderabad M.Tech Admission 2017 is available on the official website of IIT Hyderabad. Eligible candidates can fill the application form for IIT Hyderabad M.Tech 2017 Admission before May 8, 2017. Interested candidates must have a valid GATE score for admissions to postgraduate engineering, M.Tech programmes offered at the IIT Hyderabad. The […]