Miami U panel recommends tougher student group standards after sororities’ unruly behavior

Miami U: Tougher student group standards needed

Georgia Rep. Sanford Bishop awarded Black Caucus scholarships to relatives and friend

Ga. Rep. Bishop awarded scholarships to family

Ex-fraternity member paying $500K to parents for Calif college freshman pledge death

Ex-frat member paying $500K for hazing death

Principals suspended for closing schools on rumours

AMBEDKAR NAGAR - The principals of two government schools in this Uttar Pradesh district have been suspended for holding a condolence meeting and closing the schools on rumours about the death of a state minister, officials said Friday.

Foreign students, medical courses likely in IITs

NEW DELHI - Foreign students and faculty, medical courses and a new pattern for entrance exams are among the reforms planned for Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Friday.

Sibal mulls changes in engineering entrance exam

NEW DELHI - The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) entrance exams needs an overhaul to discourage coaching institutes, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Friday.

IITs to enrol foreign students, offer medical courses

NEW DELHI - The Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs) will induct foreigners as students and faculty and will also conduct medical courses, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal announced Friday.

Pressure mounts on Kerala college to reinstate teacher

THRISSUR - The Kerala government Friday said it is waiting to see what steps the college management that dismissed teacher T.J.Joseph — whose right palm was chopped off by radical Muslim activists — takes to correct the “wrong move” before it intervenes.

Maths graduates in India to teach British children

LONDON - Indian maths graduates are being trained to give tuition to British children via telephone and internet round the clock, a report said Friday.

IGNOU spreads wings in Africa via tele-education

NEW DELHI - The life of Francis Mbangwa, a Kenyan farmer in his late 20s, revolved around crops and fertiliser. He would eagerly wait for the harvest season, sometimes face a severe financial crunch because of a bad crop.