Academic
New Chair enhances McGill ties to India
Source: McGill Reporter Courtesy of Fawzia Madni MONTREAL: McGill University and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) have partnered in the creation of a new chair on India Studies. The agreement was signed recently during a visit to McGill by His Excellency Admiral (Retired) Nirmal Verma, High Commissioner of India to Canada. The ICCR [...]
» read moreSpeakers lining up for Synergy 2013
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute’s upcoming President Shanthi Johnson will be speaking at this year’s event accompanied by 5 Canadian Members of Parliament. CIEC is still accepting proposals and we would love to hear from those interested in joining this esteemed line-up of speakers. CIEC will be offering a 1-night free stay at the Hilton Garden Inn [...]
» read moreiCARE Now Overseen by the Distinguished Gaurav Verma
CIEC welcomes Gaurav Verma, CIEC’s Project Coordinator, to the Executive Team. Gaurav is uniquely qualified to oversee iCARE – CIEC’s Agent Membership category – contributing his vast experience of working with international students and in the Indian Agent market as well as valuable, active, working relations with over 40 ACCC colleges in Canada. Accredited to [...]
» read moreIndia introduces Central Monitoring System
Source: The Register Phone calls, texts, emails and even social media all now snoopable. Privacy advocates are up in arms after the Indian government began quietly rolling out a Rs.4 billion (£47.8m) Central Monitoring System (CMS) designed to give the authorities sweeping access to citizens’ phone calls and internet comms in the name of national [...]
» read moreOnline education growing in popularity, education expert says
Source: Times of India TIMES VIEW The wave of the future The observation by Curtis Uhelein, president of US-based Apollo Global, doesn’t come out of the blue. The trend towards online education is something that has been percolating through the world of higher education for a few years now. Given how new the [...]
» read moreIndian heads project to prove Einstein’s prediction
Source: Times of India LONDON: Albert Einstein’s 100-year-old theory of relativity may finally be proved in the next five years. An Indian astronomer at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena is heading a global project which is poised to discover proof that space and time can wrinkle in the form of [...]
» read moreRising luxury business spurs demand for niche courses
Source: Times of India MUMBAI: With luxury companies setting up base in India, there is a growing demand for managers armed with specialized management degrees in luxury. Looking at the growth in career opportunities in luxury, leading business schools which offer management courses in luxury brand management – such as ESSEC in Paris and SDA [...]
» read moreSupreme Court Rules AICTE’s Role as Only Advisory
Source: Khaitan & Co. In a landmark judgement passed on 25 April 2013, the Supreme Court of India (Supreme Court) has held that vis-à-vis universities, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has only an advisory role and cannot issue any sanctions on universities and colleges affiliated to universities. The Supreme Court in this [...]
» read moreAcadia, Bishop’s U, Mount Allison, and StFX form U4 League on undergraduate education
Source: U4 League Acadia, Bishop’s, Mount Allison, and St. Francis Xavier Universities announced Tuesday they have formed a strategic alliance called the U4 League, which will promote and extend the universities’ common objectives of providing students with the highest quality undergraduate education in a residential setting. Although the institutions have traditionally competed to attract students, [...]
» read more‘Teachers’ training has almost collapsed’
Source: News Track India New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) A shortage of nearly a million teachers is affecting implementation of the Right to Education Act in India. Compounding this is the lack of government-run training institutes which forces aspirants to go to private insitutions, with the result that just a fraction manage to clear the [...]
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