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Hiring at B-schools off to a flying start with more offers, better pay

3 min read . 24 Jan 2019 Prashant K. Nanda

Sectorally, consulting firms are top recruiters at management schools
The number of offers given to students of the Indian School of Business (ISB) went up by 46% compared with last year

Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

IIT placement season sees 1,500 job offers in the first two days

2 min read . 02 Dec 2018 Prashant K. Nanda

IITs said up to 25% more companies have registered with them for hiring their engineering and tech graduates

With the right political and administrative will, right design and iterative approach, and active support from both teachers and parents, we can ensure that all children learn. Photo: Sunil Ghosh/HT

Forget India’s Ivy League. Teach your children well

8 min read . 18 Dec 2018 Ashish Dhawan

Expecting children to attain quality education without key learning skills is like wanting a child to run even before she learns to walk

The global MBA will be offered through 24 courses across six specialisations. Photo: iStock

Coursera launches global MBA for APAC learners

2 min read . 07 Dec 2018 Sarah Zia

New programme hopes to bridge the skill deficiency gap in the labour market by shifting the focus to problem solving and soft skills

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Like IITs, ISB sees huge jump in job offers

1 min read . 05 Dec 2018 Prashant K. Nanda

Graduates of the Indian School of Business (ISB) have bagged 1,194 job offers in the first week of their campus placement

Earlier this year, the centre had announced the names of six institutions for the IoE status, three each from the private and government space. Photo: Hindustan Times

Azim Premji University, Shiv Nadar University, BHU and 15 others recommended for IoE status

2 min read . 07 Dec 2018 Prashant K. Nanda

HRD ministry said an empowered committee has suggested 12 names from the private university space and seven from the government university space for final consideration

Aid to secondary education fell by 80%, while for post-secondary education it rose by 20%, said Unesco (Photo: Mint)

International aid for education to India down 26%, shows UN data

2 min read . 16 May 2019 Prashant K. Nanda

India received $464 million in 2017, as against $634 million in 2016
While the International Development Association has significantly reduced its aid to India, the EU and Germany have increased their contribution

CBSE board is also mulling methods to diversify current format of objective questions carrying one mark each. (PTI)

CBSE Class 10 exam may have less number of questions

1 min read . 15 May 2019 PTI

CBSE experts are considering if they can reduce the number of questions
CBSE may increase the marks for each question and encourage students to write detailed answers

The first examination was conducted on 8 January in two shifts, and the second JEE(Main) exam for Paper-2 was conducted on 7 April (Photo: PTI)

JEE Main Exam: Four AP boys scores a perfect 100 in architecture course

1 min read . 15 May 2019 PTI

For the first time, the JEE-Main examination of Paper-2 was conducted two times through CBT-Online mode, this year
Gollapudi N Lakshmi Narayana, Korapati Nikhil Ratna, Sykam Ritesh Reddy and Gudla Raghunandan Reddy were the four toppers

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UGC, AICTE ask students not to take admission in PoK institutions

1 min read . 14 May 2019 Prashant K. Nanda

The advisory comes as some two dozen students from J&K were exploring the possibility of taking admission in PoK institutions
Institutions in PoK are neither established by the Indian govt nor recognized by statutory authorities, says the advisory

(Mint)

SSC graduate level exam 2017: SC paves way for declaration of result

2 min read . 09 May 2019 PTI

Supreme Court today paved the way for declaration of results by vacating its stay on it
The court also constituted a 7-member committee to suggest measures to make entrance exams meant for jobs, admissions in educational institutions fool proof

Last week, the HRD Ministry had postponed the medical entrance exam-NEET, in view of rehabilitation work in the state which has been affected by Cyclone Fani.

JEE-Advanced registration deadline extended for aspirants in cyclone-hit Odisha

1 min read . 08 May 2019 PTI

Odisha CM had urged the Centre to extend the registration date for JEE (Advanced)
While JEE-Mains is conducted for admission to engineering colleges across the country, JEE-Advanced is for the ones seeking admission to IITs

All states/UTs were requested to make necessary arrangements for allowing NEET students as per revised qualifying marks in any further rounds of counselling this year. (PTI)

Centre approves reduction of NEET-PG cut-offs by 6 percentile

1 min read . 08 May 2019 Neetu Chandra Sharma

The Health Ministry has decided to reduce the qualifying marks for NEET-PG for 2019-20 by six percentile
With the decision, general category candidates with minimum mark of 44 percentile will now be eligible for admission to medical courses

Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar.

Karnataka students who missed NEET exam to get another chance

1 min read . 06 May 2019 Sharan Poovanna

Prakash Javadekar announces that those who missed the NEET exams due to train delays will get another chance
Student bodies and political parties across Karnataka had requested the centre to consider giving students another chance

The CBSE was also ahead of the ICSE board which is the first to announce the results every year. (PTI)

CBSE Class 10 results announced, 13 students score 499/500

1 min read . 06 May 2019 ANI

CBSE Class 10 results 2019 is available on cbse.nic.in
Trivandrum region posted the highest pass percentage 99.85%, followed by Chennai at 99%. Delhi region had a pass percentage of 80.97%

Applicants outside a center to sit in the NEET exam on Sunday. (ANI)

Karnataka: Students demand re-exam of NEET after train delays

1 min read . 05 May 2019 Sharan Poovanna

Hundreds of students in Karnataka missed out on giving their NEET exams due to delay in train services
A last minute change in the NEET exam centres and lack of proper communication of the same has created confusion among students, says H.D.Kumaraswamy

Around 13 lakh students appeared for the examination. (Mint)

CBSE Class 12 results 2019: Hansika Shukla, Karishma Arora of UP top the exams

1 min read . 02 May 2019 PTI

Hansika Shukla from Ghaziabad and Karishma Arora from Muzaffarnagar scored 499 out of 500 marks
Rishikesh's Gaurangi Chawala, Raebareli's Aishwarya and Bhavya from Jind bagged the second rank, scoring 498 out of 500 marks

(HT )

24 students score perfect 100 in JEE-Main

1 min read . 29 Apr 2019 PTI

For the first time, the JEE-Main was conducted two times this year in January and April in online mode
The examination is conducted for admission to engineering colleges across the country

Women in the main campus, as well as the Women’s College, are predominantly dressed in abayas, burqas, or some form of hijab (PTI)

Being a feminist in conservative Aligarh Muslim University

10 min read . 29 Apr 2019 Ashwaq Masoodi

What is happening in one of our oldest universities is representative of a wider movement across Indian campuses

Compared with other countries, 15-year-olds in North America are found to be bigger bullshitters than those in England, Australia and New Zealand (iStock)

How to detect a bullshitter around you

1 min read . 29 Apr 2019 Nikita Kwatra

Young men bullshit more than young women and the rich bullshit more than the poor, suggests a new study

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