AMU committee to identify courses for new campuses

September 10th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australia's Education Minister Julia Gillard was asked Thursday to find alternate courses for international students, including those from India, who have been affected following the closure of a college here. About 500 students, mainly Indians, were affected when Sterling College, which offered courses in information technology and community welfare, closed at the end of July.

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni Tuesday announced plans to set up four more branches of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), India's premier institute of journalism. Soni also announced the upgradation of the IIMC into an international media university.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - India will be "open to the idea" of offshore campuses of its premier business and technological institutes when the faculty situation at Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) and Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) eases, parliament was told Tuesday. "Setting up campuses abroad may not be immediately feasible as that would further strain the IITs' limited manpower and other resources," Minister of State for Human Resource Development D.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The boy-girl student ratio in the undergraduate courses at the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) may soon see a positive turn. Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal Wednesday directed the IITs to admit more female students.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Students rushed through college corridors and around the Delhi University campus Tuesday morning as the varsity announced its second cut off list. For a number of them though, the aim was to cancel the admission that they had taken earlier and now join a college of their choice.

June 21st, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian students looking to study abroad have been urged by a minister to consider India as an option. Malaysia's Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department S.K.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Worried about how to get admission for post graduation in Delhi University's south campus? Fear not, as a two-day counselling session which began Tuesday will provide answers to the questions that may be bothering you. The south campus offers a total of 21 post graduation courses, including master's degrees, M.

June 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Over 113,000 forms were submitted - more than double the number of seats in Delhi University colleges - for various graduate and post-graduate courses, varsity officials said Monday, the last day of form submissions. "In total some 115,000 forms were sold, of which 113,471 forms were submitted by the students this year.

June 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Gone are the days when students had to go from one Delhi University (DU) college to another to inquire about availability of courses. All the information is now available at the click of a mouse.

June 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Over 115,000 forms - more than double the seats in Delhi University colleges - have been sold for admission to various graduate courses. And students continue to flood the information centres of the varsity.

June 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bird Education Society for Travel and Tourism, a part of the diversified Bird Group, Wednesday announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Delhi University to introduce three specialised travel and tourism courses. As part of the MoU, world-recognized courses in travel and tourism will be offered to all the affiliated colleges of Delhi University as well as to students of School of Open Learning (SOL) and Non-Collegiate Womens Education Board.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi University admission process started Monday with over 26,000 forms being sold on day one at 16 information centres spread across the capital. In total 26,052 forms were sold at the 16 centres on the first day, deputy dean of student's welfare Seema Parihar told IANS.

May 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Don't get panicky if you failed to get that 90 percent dream score in Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) Class 12 exams. Skill-based vocational courses could be the mantra for average performers in board exams, according to career counsellors.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - At least 15 more central universities, in addition to the existing 20, will be set up and start functioning from next year, the government said Thursday. The decision was taken at a two-day conference here during which vice-chancellors of the 15 new central universities presented their plans before the University Grants Commission (UGC) - the regulator of these institutions.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI -Delhi will now have its first post graduation courses in homeopathy. Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia Tuesday inaugurated the course at Nehru Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital in South Delhi.