Campus Digest

Pilibhit, Jun 7: Union human resources development minister Smriti Irani's decision to set up eight new IITs has sparked an interesting debate. Students from the older IITs have begun an online petition seeking review of the move, and 6,000 signatures were gathered in less than a week. The petition, submitted to the minister online by IIT Kharagpur student Digvijay Patil, sought that the

New Delhi, May 29: Girls have fared much better than boys in this year's CBSE class XII examinations, where the overall pass percentage stood at 82.66 per cent. The pass percentage of girls stood at 88.52 as compared to 78.27 per cent for boys. Thiruvananthapuram Region registered the best results among all the regions, posting a pass percentage of 94.26, said CBSE in a statement, after the

Chandigarh, May 26: About 1,900 students from the tricity appeared for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), Advanced, in Chandigarh on Sunday to get admission in total 16 Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), including IT-BHU and ISM Dhanbad, at several centres, including DAV, Sector-15, and Shivalik School, Sector-41. It is worth mentioning that 1.5 lakh students were declared eligible for JEE

Melbourne, May 22: Australia is rebounding as a preferred study destination for Indian students with latest official data showing more than 17 per cent jump in their enrolments in the country's education institutions this year. A total of 35,671 students across all sectors including higher education were enrolled from India during the first three months this year as compared to 30,372 registered

New Delhi, May 13: President Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said India "must regain" the lost glory of its educational institutions and once again become a centre for "cross fertilization of ideas from across the world." Addressing a delegation from QS, ICAA, British Council, FICCI and KPMG who presented the first copy of "QS University Rankings: Asia 2014" to Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan here Monday

Kolkata, May 11: Students of architecture from Denmark and all over India are in the city to study the Anglo-Indian community and Chinese settlement and document their architectural heritage at Bow Barracks and old Chinatown at Territi Bazaar. Led by Kamalika Bose, assistant professor, faculty of design at India's premier architecture institute CEPT University, the 27 students of whom 12 are from

New Delhi, May 2: Campus hirings across second rung business schools in the country have been severely hit this year due to economic slowdown, with only 18 per cent students landing job offers after completing the two-year MBA course, says an Assocham survey. The salary packages offered at these B-schools have also been curtailed by 40-45 per cent as compared to last year, according to the survey

Bangalore, Apr 25: Private engineering colleges in Karnataka have agreed to go ahead with last year's fee structure for professional courses. The Karnataka Unaided Private Engineering Colleges Association on Thursday decided to stop demanding a fee increase for the coming academic year. With this, the fees will remain at Rs 38,090 for CET students, and 45% of the seats in private colleges will go

London, Apr 23: Around 75 professors and other academics of Indian origin working at some of Britain's prestigious institutions such as Cambridge and Oxford university and London School of Economics today issued an open letter, sharply attacking Narendra Modi and saying, "The idea of Modi in power fills us with dread".The academics led by Prof. Chetan Bhatt and Gautam Appa of the London School of

Kolkata, Apr 8: The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) may explore the possibility of opening campuses on foreign shores soon. And the destinations could be Dubai and Malaysia. The proposal, which was discussed with several of the Board of Governors (BoG) members, is waiting for nod from the highest decision-making body of the institute. If a go-ahead is given, IIM-C will join the