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UK universities must push back against Theresa May’s crackdown on international student numbers, the president of Europe’s top international university has said. Professor Michael Ignatieff, president and rector of George Soros’s Central European University (CEU) and the former Canadian Liberal Party leader, warned the British Prime Minister must...
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May 6, 2017 Loknath Das
Universities
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HYDERABAD: Students of open digital learning of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) would reach to 50 lakh by 2025 from the current 30 lakh students, university vice chancellor Prof Ravindra Kumar said on Friday. The university would add about 100 new courses in the next couple of...
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May 2, 2017 Loknath Das
Distance Learning
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“Banking is the last vertically integrated sector left, but it is the next utility to face change,” said Michael Laven, CEO of the financial technology (FinTech) firm Currency Cloud, said on Tuesday. “Every other utility has been privatized and commoditized. (Telecom operator) BT might provide the rails but...
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April 27, 2017 Loknath Das
Banking
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Universities should pay the living wage as part of a “civic mission”, Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has said. Cardiff University is the only one of Wales’ eight universities with the status of a living wage employer. Accredited firms and organisations pay a higher minimum wage than the...
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April 3, 2017 Loknath Das
Universities
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The Union Public Services Commission building, New Delhi.(Agencies) There is no proposal currently under consideration of the government to give more weightage to general studies in UPSC civil service examination, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh...
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March 16, 2017 Loknath Das
Career
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