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HRD Ministry notes the difficulties, IIT tuition fee hike may be reviewedAnother problem is that more than 60% students at IIT Roorkee and most other IITs are currently paying even less than Rs 90,000,owing to pa...- How English is playing a spoilsport for students at engineering institutes like the IITEnglish language as a medium of instruction seems to be the prime reason for students getting expelled in their first year.
- Should there be space for more seats at IITs?When IIT results come out, around two lakh students will know whether they are among the 10,000-odd who have made it to the 23 coveted inst...
- IIT-Roorkee wants to produce 100 entrepreneurs by next yearIt has got a 'Tinkering Lab' which was inaugurated by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on the opening day of the college's technology fest...
- Maharashtra ranks third, in terms of number of IITians this yearThe state ranked third this year in terms of number of students it sends to the premier institutes--up one place from 2014.
- IITs at opposing ends over HRD Ministry’s fee hike proposalIndia’s top IITs are divided on the issue of a rise in fees being considered by a council set up by the HRD ministry to tide over paucity o...
- IIT Roorkee to implement SAP enterprise resource planning solution to connect campusesIndian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee will implement SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to connect all its campuses.
- Department of Biotechnology sets up DBT-Pan IIT Centre for BioenergyThe Department of Biotechnology (DBT), ministry of science and technology, has set up the DBT-Pan IIT Centre for Bioenergy, a virtual centr...
- IIT-Delhi takes unprecedented step, makes summer internships optionalFor the first time in its history, IIT Delhi has taken an unprecedented step this year, encouraged by the ever-increasing success stories o...
- More girls now make it to IITsThe number of girls admitted to IITs has gone up marginally this year too, from 8 per cent last year to 9 per cent in the current batch.
- How depression, cultural mismatch are becoming a part of IIT, NIT syllabiOnce students secure admission into the IITs, many steadily go downhill, fighting demons such as poor self esteem, a heavy study load and a...
- IIT Hyderabad roped in 20 out of top 1000 rank holders, candidates shunning new IITsIn further proof of how top-ranking candidates are shunning the new IITs, only 20 out of the top 1000 rank holders have been roped in by II...
- 90% of students expelled from IIT-Roorkee belong to reserved categoriesAlmost 90 per cent of the students expelled from IIT-Roorkee for poor academic performance belong to the reserved category, ET has learnt f...
- Why many IITians fail to cope with the curriculum after clearing entranceThe coaching factories are prime suspects for the drop in quality but exhaustion and family pressure also play key roles.
- As long as I am the Director, I would like to continue this rule: Pradipta Banerji, IIT-Roorkee"If a higher authority asks us to review the decision, we will do it. But a review does not necessarily mean the decision will change,"Bane...
- Best to ask weak students to leave after first year than dropout later: IIT-Roorkee director Pradipta BanerjiIIT-Roorkee made history of sorts by expelling six per cent of its first year batch this week for poor performance. Director Pradipta Baner...
- Why the new IITs are losing appeal among top students and recruitersSince 2008, 11 new IITs have started operating — in Indore, Mandi, Ropar, Patna, Jodhpur, Hyderabad, Gandhinagar, Bhubaneswar, Varanasi, Pa...
- IIT Roorkee signs MoU with UK-based University of SouthamptonThe MoU was signed by IIT Roorkee Director and the Vice-Chancellor of the university during a workshop at Southampton recently.
- IITs go extra mile to draw top-class faculty; offer start-up grants of up to Rs 1 croreLast month, when IIT Kanpur opened its overseas office in New York - fund-raising was one of the drivers behind the move.The other was facu...
- Narayana Murthy was right; IITs short of 2500 teachersIndia, which has not expanded its R&D institutions for at least three decades, is now stepping on the gas.
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