Common Admission Test registration to begin from September 9
Registrations for the Common Admission Test this year would begin on September 9.
Common Admission Test is the entrance exam for the Indian Institutes of Management.
The test this year would be online and the registrations would be done through the CAT website.
Interested candidates would be [...]
Common Admission Test 2009 would be held online
Things are changing at a rapid pace in the education sector in India.
The Common Admission Test for this year would be held online.
The format of the test would not be changed so the students have little to worry about the online test system.
The exam would [...]
Common Admission Test 2008 results now available through SMS
CAT 2008 results are coming out today and the students who gave the exam have several sources to get the results.
The exam for this year was given by more than 2.5 lakh applicants throughout the country.
The results are available on the official CAT website and through SMS [...]
Bihar gets its own IIT from this month
The Indian state of Bihar is all set to start its own IIT from August 6.
The first batch would consist of 109 students.
The institute would for now function from a makeshift campus in the Patliputra colony.
Dean of IIT, Patna, S Danpat spoke about the status of the institute: [...]
Microsoft to expand Partners in Learning program
Software giant Microsoft has stated that they are now planning to spend $235 million over the next five years to expand its educational program.
This program would enable them to put more computers into classrooms. The aim is to bridge the digital divide.
Microsoft said in its statement that they are [...]
Rs 2.80 Billion BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus Foundation Laid
With late Shri G D Birla as the founder, Dr K K Birla as the present Chancellor and Shri Kumar Mangalam Birla as the future Chancellor designate, BITS Pilani has always been led by one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.
The foundation [...]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to offer free online courses
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has said that they would soon become the sole U.S. University to offer almost all of their courses for free online.
Anne Margulies, head of online curriculum said in a statement on this new initiative: “We started this project because MIT believes that [...]
Lorry Lokey donates to Stanford University
The founder of Business Wire Lorry Lokey has donated $33 million to Stanford University. These funds are to be used by the institution to build a stem cell research center.
This donation was revealed by the school which added that this is the largest contribution from an individual to the Stanford [...]
Jerry Yang donates $75 million to Stanford
Jerry Yang, co-founder of Internet media company Yahoo Inc. is donating $75 million to his alma mater Stanford University.
This was revealed by the university which is planning to use bulk of this money on a new environmental studies centre.
Yang along with fellow student David Filo started Yahoo.com website [...]
Tata Consultancy Services to train graduates to become IT professionals
India’s largest software company Tata Consultancy Services has said that they would be hiring about 2000 B.Sc. and B.C.A. graduates in this academic session.
They would train these individuals to become top class IT professionals. However, they would be hired as trainees and would be making [...]
