Indian dreams of private universities
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On the campus of Amity University, pretty much everything is a work in progress.
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Oxford's vice-chancellor is to learn whether academics back reforms which could hand control to outsiders.
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Chak De India scores yet another hit, not in the box-office this time but in the classroom. The Shah Rukh Khan starrer about a gritty women's hockey team that overcomes odds and goes on to win the world championships, will now be part of a business school curriculum.
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A few universities might offer cut-price courses in an effort to woo students, it has emerged.
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Most of the 11 million students in IndiaÂs 18,000 colleges and universities receive starkly inferior training, heavy on obedience and light on useful job skills.
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Drexel University, the University of Michigan and Florida State University plan to use more than $600,000 in grants to turn the Internet Public Library into a virtual teaching and learning laboratory for digital reference.
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Private schools could lend teachers to state schools under proposals by Education Secretary Alan Johnson.
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Millions of illiterate people in remote, rural India could soon have access to an education, as a satellite devoted exclusively to long distance learning was launched on Monday.
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New Delhi, Sept. 15 (PTI): International Institute of Fine Arts and the University of London have signed a MoU for teaching, developing and promoting fine arts in India and the United Kingdom.
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The country's students are up in arms about a new government educational quota policy. But is merit all that counts in such a rigidly divided country?
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Media & professional: University applicants will be judged on their schools as well as grades.
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Penn State, Cornell University among those offering paid download services to students.
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By Simon Usborne  In 2005, when Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced his vision, experts queued up to say it couldn't be done, and that the professor's plan was little more than a well-intentioned dream.
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To help prepare university students for the new services-based economy, I.B.M. wants colleges to teach services as a science.
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Suffering a crisis of confidence these days about its ability to compete with its emerging Asian rivals, Japan is in the midst of a growing craze for Indian education.
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A number of leading public universities are drawing increasingly impressive and affluent students.
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia  - The atmosphere on the King Abdullah campus should be that of a high-quality college anywhere else in the world -- a mood of free thought, equality and easy mingling among independent-minded men and women.