Indian cinema icon Amitabh Bachchan Friday presented an Indian student with a scholarship of upto AUD 200,000 (appoximately $185,000) at La Trobe University here.


Amitabh presents scholarship to Indian in Melbourne


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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who inaugurated the Indian Film Festival Melbourne (IFFM) along with the governor and his wife Thursday, is ecstatic to hear that the La Trobe University has named a scholarship after him.


Australian university names scholarship after Big B


A Sikh school in Britain has reassured its students and their parents that its premises are completely safe after it was claimed that the school was constructed on contaminated soil, media reported Monday.


Sikh school in Britain reassures parents on pupils' safety


India has the third largest education system in the world. This in itself is a remarkable achievement. But the severity of challenges that the system faces is exceedingly high, daunting, and at times looks insurmountable. The challenges confronting the Indian higher education system are also challenging, complex and have different hues.


India's quality of higher education must match enrolment (Comment: Active Voice)


The Kerala government will sponsor the visit of  10 student entrepreneurs to the Silicon Valley this year as part of the SV Square programme of Startup Village, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Saturday.


Kerala government to sponsor 10 students to Silicon Valley


German intellectuals revived Indian culture during the 20th century when English literature in the country became a tool of "domination and subjugation", said Pramod Talgeri, vice-chancellor, India International Multiversity.


German scholars revived Indian culture: Merck-Tagore awardee


US whistleblower Edward Snowden was officially initiated as the student rector of the University of Glasgow in Scotland Wednesday.


Snowden takes up post of Glasgow University rector


A court Tuesday quashed a closure report filed by Delhi Police in the case of first year student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, who allegedly committed suicide in 2011.


IIT student's death: Court quashes police closure report, orders probe


The fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics are priorities for both India and the US, outgoing American Ambassador Nancy Powell said here Monday.


Science, tech studies priority for India, US: Nancy Powell


A Pennsylvania teenager has been suspended for asking the first ever Indian-American Miss America Nina Davuluri to the prom, the annual end of the year dance for high school students.


US teen suspended for asking Miss America Nina Davuluri to prom


Three students of Jawaharlal Nehru University were killed Friday in the campus when their motorcycle hit a divider and then a tree, police said.


Three JNU students killed in campus accident


Ashoka University, a philanthropic higher-education initiative of a group of entrepreneurs and business leaders, is set to open its doors in August with four-year undergraduate programmes in the liberal arts. Similar term courses in Delhi University have led to widespread resentment and criticism.


'Four-year undergrad programmes need of the hour'


Delhi University students and youths from nine urban settlements in the capital Tuesday released a charter of demands for India's policy makers, demanding safety, security for women, framing rights for the girl child and the right to education.


DU students, youth pitch for women rights


At least 300 students in a village in Bihar's Lakhisarai district lost their school which was destroyed in a blast by Maoists ahead of voting in six parliamentary


300 students hit as Maoists blow up Bihar school


Award-winning Indian actress and director Nandita Das and head of Godrej India Culture Lab Parmesh Shahani have been named 2014 Yale World Fellows, taking the number of Indian fellows to 15.


Nandita Das, Parmesh Shahani among 2014 Yale World Fellows


Gross domestic product (GDP) has dominated as a measure of national performance over the large part of past 100 years. But an intellectual debate has also raged over finding a better and more representative measure of assessing progress. Interestingly, the debate itself was initiated by Simon Kuznets, the architect of GDP and a Noble laureate: "The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP."


A century in measuring social progress (Column: Active Voice)


Ethiopia, where Indian teachers have long been revered, is again looking at Indian teachers and trainers in various fields as the ancient East African nation, where one of the earliest traces of human existence has been found, shifts its economy from an agrarian to an industrial one.


Ethiopia once again looks to Indian teachers


About a decade ago, 2004 or thereabouts, I found myself at the media launch of a British certifying institute that was offering a staggering 250 courses ranging from Pitman's Shorthand to oil exploration. The two Brits on stage waxed eloquent on how in a changing world, conventional degrees were not worth the paper they were printed on and what school-leavers needed to do was to focus on vocational courses. In the midst of all this, the buffet was being laid out and this was all the more irritating as I had skipped breakfast.


Where are the peers? (Column: Soliloquy)


Gujarat has fallen precipitously on a countrywide index of human well-being according to a report on public policy published by a reputed private university.


Gujarat falls steeply in human well-being index: Report


Four Indian-American students have been named recipients of this year's Paul and Doris Soros Fellowships for New Americans.


Soros Fellowships for four Indian-Americans


Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan Wednesday ordered the cancellation of Post-Graduate Medical Entrance Test conducted by Vijayawada-based NTR University of Health Sciences.

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