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JNU Teachers Association Protests against Alternate Model of Examinations

JNU Teachers Association

The JNU Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) on Friday protested in front of the HRD Ministry to seek due attention to the ” alternative ” model of examinations in the Varsity. JNU Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) on Friday protested in front of the HRD Ministry to seek due attention to the ” alternative ” model of examinations in […]

Karnataka Based Deemed Universities Making a Mark Despite Stringent Norms

Deemed Universities

Many of the Karnataka Based Deemed Universities are struggling to get a secure place. These universities in Karnataka are built across the whole State. They are providing general value courses to highly creative and specialized ones in Yoga, Medicine, Engineering, Design, Management, Information Technology, and Healthcare. ​ The reason for them yet to get value […]

India Rankings Society to Grade Colleges From the Next Year

‘India Rankings Society, A separate and specialized body, is directed to administer and control the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) from the next academic year’ K.K. Agarwal, Chairman, National Board of Accreditation, which has been carrying out the task from some years, said in Tiruchi on this Thursday. The higher educational institutes in the country, […]

Americans’ View Of Higher Education Takes A Major Drop

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Just 50% of Americans currently accept that a college education is “significant,” a dramatic diminishing from the 70% who said it was significant in 2013. Also, 13% of adults accept that advanced education is “not very significant,” more than double the rate (6%) in 2013. Those are two principle takeaways from a national survey just […]

Focus on Making Higher Education Job Oriented: Rajasthan Governor

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Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra on Wednesday, December 11, 2019, solicited vice-chancellors from 90 universities from the state to focus on making higher education job oriented. Talking at the west zone vice-chancellors’ meet sorted out by the New Delhi-based Association of Indian Universities (AIU) here, the Governor laid emphasis on advancing advancements and establishing new precedents […]

Global Rankings of Indian Varsities need Improvement

Indian Universities

The current status of global rankings of Indian Universities need a huge improvement, said Pankaj Mittal, the Secretary-General of Association of Indian Universities (AIU). She said that with more number of students look for admission in overseas universities and more graduates joining the global workforce, Internationalization of Higher Education has become a necessity just as […]

Budget for Education Increasing Every Year in Absolute Terms

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Budget Provided by Centre Through MHRD for Education Increasing Every Year in Absolute Terms: MHRD With reference to a news thing in media wherein it is referenced that allocation to education is diminishing after some time, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) on Monday said that the budget gave by the Center through MHRD […]

Courtney Reintroduces the Bill For Students With Disabilities

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The Reintroduced Bill is for the Improvement of Higher Ed-Tech Access for Students with Disabilities U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-second District, and Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tennessee, on Thursday, reintroduced a bipartisan bill aimed at ensuring students with disabilities approach indistinguishable educational materials from non-disabled students. This is the second time the legislators presented the Accessible […]

University Agreements Strengthen Australia-India Education Links

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India and Australia will today cement stronger ties in education when India’s O. P. Jindal Global University (JGU) and seven New South Wales universities consent to collaborative arrangements at Government House in Sydney within the sight of the State Governor. The seven separate memorandums of comprehension (MOUs) come as the governments of Australia and India […]

Chitkara Varsity Placed 7th in Swachh Ranking

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Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, ranks seventh on the list of cleanest higher education institutions in the country in the Swachh Campus Ranking-2019 of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Dr Madhu Chitkara, Pro-Chancellor, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, was given an appreciation certificate by R Subrahmanyam, Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of […]