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India 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 moreSeven unscrupulous travel agents held
Source: Hindustan Times JALANDHAR: The city police on Monday cracked down on unscrupulous travel agents on the basis of specific information from the British high commission and Australian embassy that the agents used to prepare forged documents of students for sending them abroad on study visa. During raids, seven travel agents were arrested with Rs 20 lakh [...]
» 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 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 moreUS, UK, and Canada woo leisure travelers from India
Source: The Economic Times Many Indian families will be visiting their kin in the US this summer; or parents will be visiting campuses where their children are studying. But the US commerce department, along with big tour operators in India, has been working towards making US an independent leisure destination for Indian tourists, rather than [...]
» 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 [...]
» read moreCanada – A growing destination for Indian students
By Avinav Sharma Canada has never been so popular with the Indian students as it stands now. It is all thanks to the great and impactful reforms done by the Government of Canada to make Canada an attractive destination for International Education of 21st century. A fact concreting is that in 2012, for the first [...]
» read moreMore Young Japanese Heading Abroad to Study
Source: The New York Times TOKYO: Addressing a room of university students, Aya Kikuchi, a counselor, dished out tips for students bound for Canada. “One cultural thing to note is that there is a strong ‘ladies first’ orientation there,” she said at a meeting organized by Ryugaku Journal, an overseas study agency. “So, people might [...]
» read moreOsmania University gets its own international students hostel
Source: The Hindu After a wait of more than 10 years, Osmania University’s dream of a hostel for foreign students has finally taken shape. The modern hostel was inaugurated recently by chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Ved Prakash. For the moment, the plush two-storeyed building, which can house 172 students, will only be [...]
» read moreCanada to spend $10M to woo foreign students
Source: Ottawa Citizen Tenfold increase in recent budget wins plaudits from cash-poor universities The Canadian government is hoping to corner the market on foreign students by making a significant investment into Canada’s education brand. The recently tabled federal budget directs $10 million over the next two years to the effort – a large increase from [...]
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