Less Than 500 Students Enrollment in 2/3rd Colleges: Survey Of the total 38,179 colleges, which were surveyed under the All India Survey on Higher Education 2018-19 (AISHE), very nearly two-third or 64 per cent had only 500 students enrolled in them. Indeed, even among these, the greater part of the colleges have an enrollment of […]
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Director V Ramgopal Rao on Sunday did some plain-speaking on the choice to hike the fee cost of M.Tech programs, saying it was a “surgical strike” on “uninterested students”, even as an online petition was begun demanding rollback of the choice. In a long Facebook post, Rao justified the decision, expressing that “the complimentary benefits” […]
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Higher Education Needs to Change Fundamentally to Push India India is serving a population of almost 1.4 billion, the Indian higher education sector is colossal. Addressing the necessities of such a large, dispersed and differing population has its own challenges. While primary education has witnessed increasing penetration in India, it is higher education that needs […]
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Times Higher Education is Going to Announce Subject-Wise World University Ranking The latest Times Higher Education World University subject-wise Ranking will be propelled from 2 October. The subject-wise ranking tables follow the publication of the overall THE World University Rankings 2020, which was uncovered on 11 September and saw the UK’s University of Oxford guarantee […]
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Female scholars number only 24% in 127 institutions of national importance though overall there is more female participation in eight out of 16 undergraduate and postgraduate projects in the Indian campuses, as indicated by the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2018-19. There is more female participation in science and medicine at the undergraduate […]
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The Center has sanctioned an additional amount of Rs 4,315.1 crore for implementation of the 10% quota for the economically weak (EWS) among the general category across 158 centrally funded higher education institutions. In addition to the 1.18 lakh seats that had been included these institutions in 2019, which incorporate the Indian Institutes of Technology […]
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Will Indian Students get Harvard Tag in India? The dream of a foreign education could be acknowledged nearer home in a couple of years’ time. As indicated by a news report, the government has introduced a provision in the Higher Education Commission of India Bill to allow the activity of foreign colleges in India. The […]
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List of 800 Approved Journals is Allotted by UGC As per UGC-CARE order, all Universities and Colleges will have to appoint and promote faculties on the basis of the allotted list of Approved Journals by them. The UGC (University Grants Commission)-CARE has asked all universities and colleges in the country to appoint and promote faculty […]
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Leadership Program for Academic Heads Early this week, HRD Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal, “Nishank” launched the Leadership for Academicians Programme(LEAP), 2019 edition. The LEAP programme is launched under the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) Scheme. The objective of this programme is to train the second tier academic heads for Leadership […]
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IIT- Delhi is in Touch With THE Education Editorial’s Director IIT Delhi is in touch with Times Higher Education Editorial’s Director, Phil Baty, regarding the drop in ranking in the latest edition. The institute, IIT Delhi is concerned about the backdrop of two IITs in their latest edition released last week. According to sources, Baty […]