Out to woo Indian businesses and students, British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday announced his country would introduce same-day visa services for investors and said there would be no limit on the number of students from here studying there. ...
06:03 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Britain's stringent norms in student visa has resulted in decline of number of Indian students in higher education by nearly a quarter last year. Students from India coming to study at UK schools and universities fell by 23.5 per cent overall, including a 28 per cent drop at postgraduate level. ...
06:25 PM, Jan 12, 2013
Mumbai: Indian students have been consistently performing well in the various science Olympiads. CNN-IBN met the champions of the Astronomy Olympiad. Mounting a telescope is a child's play for the 18-year-olds who made India proud at the Astronomy Olympiad held in Rio De Janeiro in 2012. For 14 years in a row, India has always been in the top two at the Olympiad. Aniket Sule, Reader, Homi Bhabha Center of...
10:55 AM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Germany, a hub of quality scientific research and innovation, is keen to attract the brightest Indian minds for further studies and research and has as an incentive made it easier for students to stay over and work, the country's envoy has said. Another incentive for students is that German universities don't charge any fees. "In Germany you don't pay to study in the universities," Michael Steiner, Germany's envoy...
01:24 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Melbourne/New Delhi: Australia has decided to close down three vocational colleges for non-compliance of training standards, a move that will impact more than 500 Indian students enrolled in these institutes. However, Australian High Commissioner to India Peter Varghese on Wednesday assured that Indian students affected by college closures will be protected. He was commenting on the move by Australia's vocational education regulator, the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), to shut...
10:03 PM, Oct 03, 2012
London: Britain on Thursday announced a new fund of two million pounds to help Indian and other non-EU students caught by the revocation of London Metropolitan University's licence to admit and teach international students. LMU's licence was revoked on August 29, throwing the academic future of over 350 Indian and over 2,250 other non-EU current students in disarray. After the licence revocation, they are required to apply for similar courses...
05:35 PM, Sep 13, 2012
London: Thousands of Indian and other non-EU students are facing an uncertain situation due to the possibility of a major university here losing its licence to admit overseas students as part of a crackdown on student visa abuse. The London Metropolitan University, which has offices in New Delhi and Chennai, is one of the major destinations for Indian students coming to the UK. The university's licence to admit non-EU was...
10:28 AM, Aug 29, 2012
London: The new student visa system in Britain that was introduced to prevent abuse has led to a decline in the number of students coming from India, but the overall number of international students has not changed, according to a Home Office minister. "I accept there has been a decline in the number of students coming from India," Home Office minister of state Lord Henley said. During a debate in...
05:42 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: The depreciating rupee has no doubt cast a cascading effect on the economy but the worst-hit are Indian students studying abroad or those planning for higher studies in foreign universities as they have to shell out more money compared to what it was required a year ago. As the rupee has weakened by about 20 per cent since the beginning of the calender year, overseas education costs have...
10:58 AM, Jun 10, 2012
New Delhi: Indian students who wish to work after their studies in the UK will now need to apply for a job with a licensed Tire 2 sponsor, the government said on Wednesday. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Human resource Development D Purandeswari said the Post-Study Work visa, which earlier allowed students to work in the UK for two years after they completed their...
12:17 AM, Apr 26, 2012
London: The United Kingdom may reconsider the cancellation of post-study visas for Indian students. It has just been a fortnight since the UK cancelled post-study visas. Senior British ministers are reported to have given out an assurance that they will consider post-study work for Indian students. The post-study work route, which was closed from April 6 is most likely to be made more flexible for Indian students. There was sharp...
04:33 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Melbourne: An Australian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal of the Melbourne teenager who was sentenced to 13 years in jail for killing Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which outraged public opinion in India and put the bilateral relations under stress. The teenager, who was 15-year-old at the time of incident in 2010, had appealed claiming the sentence was 'manifestly excessive', given his extreme youth, guilty plea and unintentional...
11:10 AM, Apr 17, 2012
London: A facility that allowed Indian students to work in the UK for two years after their courses are over will be closed from Friday as part of the Cameron governments drive to cut migration, which may put-off those aspiring to study in the UK. Under the Tier 1 (Post-study work) route, Indian and other non-EU students were able to take up work for two years here after the completion...
07:04 AM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Over 80 per cent of students in schools across the country are humiliated by teachers who tell them that they are not capable of learning, a study conducted by national child rights body has said. Even the "cruel practice" of giving electric shocks finds a mention in the yet-to-be released study on the practice of corporal punishment brought out by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights...
10:44 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Dubai: Students of an Indian school in Bahrain will soon get the world's cheapest tablet computer 'Aakash', developed by India's Human Resources Development Ministry. Class 12 students of the Indian School Bahrain will get a tablet each soon, executive committee chairman of the school Abraham John has said. He said that about 600 Aakash laptops will be made available to the students. "Students will be able to enhance their knowledge,...
01:18 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Tezpur: Over 16 million children are not attending schools in the country and the government has taken all possible steps to make them literate within this decade, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said. "Globalisation has led to much improvement in the field of education and the country is ready to compete with the rest of the world, but we cannot ignore the many children who are...
08:56 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Washington: The United States has assured India that it was 'continuing to work' on the issue of hundreds of Indian students affected by the 'horrible visa scam' by California based 'sham' Tri-Valley University. Some 85 per cent of over 1500 TVU students were Indian, mostly from Andhra Pradesh. US authorities are reviewing a letter sent by the Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that...
11:10 AM, Oct 27, 2011
New Delhi: The fate of more than 600 students from India and the subcontinent hangs in the balance after the Pune-based Tasmac Group closed its business school in London on Friday. "We don't have any more money to give to other colleges. We don't know if they will even change our visa," said a student. The college declared bankruptcy and folded operations without warning. With this the visas of the...
09:26 AM, Oct 11, 2011
Melbourne: Witnessing a steep decline in foreigners' enrolment in its universities, Australia on Thursday announced that it would relax some visa requirements to win back overseas students, including Indians. The new changes, expected to be enforced from the second semester of 2012 in the Australian universities, follow a review of the student visa programme led by ex-New South Wales government minister Michael Knight. Under the new rules, the financial requirements...
04:29 PM, Sep 22, 2011
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