First Women-Only Engineering College coming in Thane, Maharashtra

While addressing a written reply in Lok Sabha, Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani has confirmed that All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has approved an engineering college exclusively for women. This engineering college will come up in Thane.

"According to the information furnished by the All India Council for Technical Education, it has approved one women's engineering college during the academic year 2014-15 in the name of 'New Horizon Institute of Technology and Management'," she said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

While AICTE has approved setting up of engineering college in Maharashtra, but Smriti Irani has announced that government is not providing any fund for this. The college is being set up by the New Horizon Education Society from its own funds.

UGC: Universities must implement grades, semester in 2015

University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked all unviersities to implement grade system and semester system in curriculum from 2015 onwards. This move will impact 400 universities and 4 lakhs students. The move comes following a meeting last week between state education ministers and HRD minister Smriti Irani. This new move by HRD will ensure students more flexibility to learn and ensure their seamless mobility across institutions.

BITS Pilani receives Excellence in ICT integration award from FICCI

The Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani has received the prestigious "Excellence in ICT integration" award by Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) during the first “FICCI Higher Education Awards 2014”ceremony heldon November 13, 2014 at New Delhi, as a part of the FICCI Higher Education Summit 2014. The award was presented by Mr. Greg Clark, UK's Minister of State for Universities to Prof. B.N. Jain, Vice-Chancellor and Prof. R. K Mittal, Director, Special Projects, BITS Pilani in the presence of Smt.

India becomes permanent Signatory to Washington Accord, now among 17 countries

Technical education and Engineering programs in India got major boost when India became permanent Signatory to Washington Accord. India is now among the selected group of 17 countries who are permanent signatories of the Washington Accord. India received green signal at the meeting of the International Engineering Alliance of WA member countries met in Wellington, New Zealand.

Union government to setup 14 new IIITs, says Shashi Tharoor

The Union government has approved the proposal to set up 14 new Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT). As per the scheme, 50 to 100 crore of land will be provided free of cost by the concerned state government for setting up the IIITs. "Under the approved scheme of setting up 20 IIITs on a not-for-profit public-private partnership, the central government has given approval for establishment in 14 states," Minister of state for human resource development Shashi Tharoor said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

Shiksha.com launches Common Application form for B-Schools

Shiksh.com owned by InfoEdge India Ltd has launched common Application Form to be filled by students applying for all B-Schools in India. This will held the MBA aspirant to fill up a single form and will free the candidates from hassles of filling up different forms. Any MBA college which needs any extra information will get it from the student by means of a separate form. This will also save cost of purchasing different application forms. Till now 14 MBA institutes have given their consent, reply is awaited from other B-Schools.