Spread over 103 acres and with more than 1,000 students, the nearly 60-year-old Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) recently sought a loan of Rs 316 crore from the Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) to upgrade its infrastructure and increase the intake of students. IIM-A authorities have plans...
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December 15, 2018 Loknath Das
Education Loans
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Essential information released! The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) has declared the exam schedule of the 30th Judicial Services preliminary examination. According to the reports, a total of 698 candidates have been disqualified because of not falling in the right age gap. About the exam: The exam will...
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November 11, 2018 Loknath Das
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Six engineering institutes in India are being loaned over Rs 2,066 crores for research and infrastructure projects by a finance company established by the Union government for this purpose. These include the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (in Mumbai), Madras (Chennai), Kharagpur (in West Bengal), Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) and Delhi,...
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December 11, 2017 Loknath Das
Education Loans
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After moving to Australia in 2013, Neha successfully completed two masters’ degrees in Education and teaching from Victoria University and RMIT. Since then, she has attempted the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) test over 20 times but hasn’t been successful in scoring the required score for her...
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June 22, 2017 Loknath Das
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The blood stains on the classroom walls couldn’t be washed away following the Taliban attack on the middle school in Postak Bazaar village in Afghanistan. ‘We had to chip it away from the wall with an axe,’ a school official told Human Rights Watch. But the blood...
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June 20, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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Central varsities such as Delhi University will soon be able to launch new departments, programmes, schools and centres without the approval of the University Grants Commission (UGC), albeit in self-financing mode. This facility will be extended to some state universities too. The UGC has also proposed new rules...
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June 3, 2017 Loknath Das
Universities
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