On Monday, April 29, IIM-K (Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode) and Plymouth University of UK signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding), at IIM-K. The partnership took place to carry out collaborative research projects and to facilitate faculty and student exchange. Sources from IIM-K revealed that by establishing tie-ups with the leading business schools around the world, IIM-K wants to speed up its international activities. Presently, IIM-K is partnering with 29 international business schools. IIM-K has witnessed an increment of 100% in the number of students...

Middlesex University  has appointed award-winning journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown as Professor in Professional Practice. She recently gave a lecture at Middlesex University about being a 'journalist insider, outsider' and the responsibility of journalists - Alibhai-Brown is an internationally known and respected journalist and commentator, and as an author and broadcaster has won several journalism and public service awards including the prestigious George Orwell Prize for political journalism. Click here for courses offered in  Middlesex University A regular...

Charles Darwin University  academic has combined the ancient art of story-telling with the wonders of digital technology to teach the principles of human rights to some of Australia’s most remote school students. Law lecturer Jeswynn Yogaratnam this week returned from the Outback homeland community of Arlparra, 260 km north-east of Alice Springs, where he unveiled an innovative multimedia tool to teachers and students. He said the tool had the potential to encourage a high level of student participation.“The beauty of it is that it combines visual and oral...

The Intel® International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), 2013 will be held in Phoenix, Arizona from Sunday, May 12 to Friday, May 17. Eight Indian students, who are winners of the India Initiative for Research and Innovation in Science (IRIS), shall represent the nation at ISEF. SSP (Society for Science and the Public) along with Intel Corporation runs the Intel® ISEF program. The global science competition is an annual forum for pre-college students across the globe to exhibit their independent research. Over 1500 students from more than 70 countries around the world will...

At the end of April, 2013 the team behind the annual QS World University Rankings, organizing the QS world university tour, will visit Mumbai, Hyderabad and New Delhi, for offering overseas undergraduate courses to the Indian students. For over 10 years now, QS is bringing some top most globally recognized universities in India for the benefit of the Indian students. Currently, though government of various countries have imposed visa-restrictions for international students to study in their countries, still many universities are keen to offer visa, admissions and funding advice to the...

As per a sample survey, Indians still prefer Australia as a first option for studying abroad. US is still a second option despite the attacks on Indian students in 2009 and 2010 in Australia. On Wednesday, April 18, the survey conducted by the Australia India Institute and Lowy Institute for International Policy was released, which was conducted on 1233 Indians staying in Australia. About 75% of the respondents claimed that Australia is a good place for education. Even a few years ago, Australia was among the most preferred countries for the Indians for higher studies and vocational...

  The twelve-year long collaboration between BITS (Birla Institute of Technology and Science), Pilani and ETA LLC Groups has finally ended with the former acquiring its Dubai campus infrastructure from the latter. BITS Pilani also announced that all the statutory requirements of the acquisition have now been met. In the year 2000, BITS in collaboration with ETA LLC group established its only international branch in Dubai. As per the agreement, the former used to manage the academics while the later used to provide administrative support and infrastructural facilities. In...

On Monday, April 29 to Thursday, May 2, 2013 an executive education program namely, ‘Building a Global Enterprise in India’ will be hosted by HBS (Harvard Business School) at the classroom of HBS in Taj Lands End, Mumbai. The unique program been designed for those senior leaders who look for different strategies to expand their business within and beyond the compelling market of India. The program will be a combination of research based knowledge of India with the global perspective of one of the leading business schools of the world. This kind of combination is not...

Infosys from India and Ireland’s Queen’s University Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), a cyber security research lab as well as Invest Northern Ireland, a regional business agency of the government has decided to collaborate for combating cyber crime. A CSIT-Infosys Cyber Lab will be established within the three year agreement between the parties. This cyber lab will be a part of institution developing security technologies and a global network of companies. A joint work on a range of topics will be carried out by Infosys and CSIT. The works include-...

Oxford University will now attract more Indian students than before. The Exeter College, under Oxford University, recently opened its undergraduate program for Indian students. Currently, Exeter College authorities are touring some high schools and colleges in Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore to attract more Indian students. The academic dean, of the 4 th oldest college, Exeter College in Oxford University is holding talks to advise school and junior schools students as well as their parents about how to apply for the undergraduate courses in Oxford University.  The officials are...