India and Belarus on Wednesday decided to work together on defence and security issues as President Pranab Mukherjee met his Belarusian counterpart and agreed on a 17-point road map aimed at strengthening mutual trust and confidence. The President, who arrived here on Tuesday night on a two-day visit, was accorded a ceremonial welcome at the majestic Palace of Independence …

  On Tuesday, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval signed into law the nation’s fifth education savings account (ESA) program, and the first to offer ESAs to all students who previously attended a public school. Earlier this year, Sandoval signed the state’s first educational choice law, avery limited scholarship tax credit. Despite their limitations, both programs greatly expandeducational freedom, and will serve …

  It is my first day as an assistant lecturer in the humanities at a university in the South of England. I don’t want to be late and make a bad impression, so I leave home two hours before my lecture is scheduled to start. Around here, buses are predictable only with respect to their unreliability, and the few hours …

A good rank in engineering course is no more a passport to a lucrative job. Besides sound domain knowledge, students must hone their analytical and cognitive skills, insisted resource persons at The Hindu Education Plus EAMCET Career Counselling, organised at Siddhartha Auditorium on Wednesday. The annual session drew participation of enthusiastic EAMCET-qualified students seeking admission into various streams of engineering …

Harvard announced today that alumnus John A. Paulson, M.B.A. ’80, founder and president of Paulson & Co., has made the largest gift in the University’s history, a $400 million endowment to support theSchool of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). To honor his generosity, the School will be renamed the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Paulson’s …

  One of the most heated debates in education today concerns the liberal arts model. It has come under fire in recent years, and has been increasingly compared to STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) learning. The rapid introduction of new technologies which require field specialization are, many argue, outdating subjects such as philosophy and literature. In this digital universe, the …

  With its founding class having just finished their first year, Minerva deserves a report card. The Silicon Valley startup created a media flurry when it vowed to change “every aspect of the university-student relationship” after raising $25 million from venture capitalists, a sum dwarfed only by a B round of $70 million. But what exactly has all that capital …

  The education secretary, Nicky Morgan, has vowed to “sweep away bureaucratic and legal loopholes” obstructing the takeover of as many as 1,000 struggling local authority schools in England and their rapid conversion into academies. The education bill published on Wednesday details how council-maintained schools rated as inadequate by Ofsted will have their legal options curtailed or removed, enabling the …

  They told me that if I voted for Mitt Romney, campus witch hunts would leave professors afraid to write about feminism. And they were right! Barack Obama is the president, of course, not Mitt. But Obama’s Department of Education has taken such a broad view of the federal Title IX antidiscrimination law (“No person in the United States shall, …

  Politics, Philosophy and Economics is a fine old degree, and one I sometimes wish I’d tackled. I did get to wondering what the Politics, Philosophy and Economics of learning might be. What would your version be? On the Politics side, I’d like to extend franchise. All students should be allowed to vote on education matters, or at very least …