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Bangalore: With an aim of every Indian student with a laptop, Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry's effort to bring out $30 laptops has invited lot of criticisms. Even though some of the Indian media bring an excitement to the whole scenario by calling it as India's yet another cheapest invention after designing the world's cheapest passenger car Tata Nano.

New Delhi : India and the UK will be signing a 5 million pound-deal this week to collaborate in the field of education. A key part of British Pime Minister David Cameron’s India visit, the collaboration facilitated through the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) will see the two nations joining hands to set up new institutes, drive in skill development programmes, hold leadership programmes and work on quality assurance of courses offered to students.

A very high-speed 'Science and Education Internet' is being connected to India through international Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD) and the networking process will be completed in August in 2010, Dr Greg Cole, Director and Principal Investigator of the network said.

For her senior year thesis at Princeton University, 21-year-old Wendy Kopp suggested a model of a national teacher corps along the lines of the peace corps, a volunteer programme wherein American citizens are sent to developing countries to work and increase mutual understanding. Kopp, now 43,

Having launched its seventh centre of the country in Ahmedabad, Raffles Millennium International (RMI), Asia- Pacific's premium design institute, is now planning to tie up with other educational institutions including engineering colleges for part time programmes on design.

"There is a need for design education in several verticals including industrial design and auto design in India. We plan to tie-up with educational institutions like engineering colleges for offering part time courses in design," said Harpreet Singh, executive director, Educomp Raffles Higher Education Ltd.

It’s almost impossible to compare players between two eras separated by six decades, let alone when one is a batsman and the other a bowler. But Muttiah Muralitharan managed to do something the great Donald Bradman couldn't: sign off on a magical number.

Bradman missed his 100, Murali snared his 800th. 1661 Test matches have passed since Bradman walked back to the old pavilion at The Oval with a duck against his name on the scoreboard. A fortnight short of his 40th birthday, Bradman had announced that the fifth and final match against England, would be his last in Test cricket.

ducation (AICTE) will on July 27 decide on representations filed by existing self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu seeking an increase in intake of students in certain branches and permission to launch new courses this academic year.

From seaports and SEZs to private railway tracks, SKIL Infrastructure is known for its infrastructure projects. The group has bought 22% in Chennai-based Everonn Education as it readies to make an entry into the education sector. In an exclusive interview with ET NOW, this newspaper’s business television channel, SKIL Infrastructure chairman Nikhil Gandhi spelled out the plans for his group’s venture into the education sector.

What is the rationale behind venturing into the education sector?

India announced on Thursday a US$35 computing and access device for students of colleges and universities, according to the country's Ministry of Human Resource Development.

The price of the device is expected to gradually drop to $20 and later to $10, said a statement distributed through the country's Press Information Bureau. The government did not, however, indicate when the device would be available, or its specifications.

In a bid to bridge the gap between demand and supply of skilled manpower in modern retail, Bharti Wal-Mart, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and global retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc, has opened a training centre in Delhi. Located at the government-run Veer Savarkar Basic Training Centre on Pusa Road, the centre will provide free retail sector-focussed vocational training to candidates.

A memorandum of agreement (MoA) was signed in this regard on July 22 between Bharti Wal-Mart and the Delhi government's Department of Training and Technical Education.