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High Court Seeks Centre, DU’s Stand On Plea Challenging New Admission Norms

Delhi University

Delhi University commenced registration for admission on May 30. It will close on June 14. The Delhi High Court Monday sought to know the stand of the Centre and the Delhi University on a plea challenging its new admission norms for undergraduate courses. The court said there is arbitrariness in how criteria were amended just a […]

JNUSU Writes To VC Demanding Revert To Paper-Based Format For Entrance Exam

Entrance test

This is for the first time that the varsity has switched to the computer-based mode of entrance exams that are being conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) across 122 cities in the country. The JNU student union Monday said it has written to the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the university, urging him to initiate steps […]

International Yoga Day: UGC Directs Universities To Organise Mass Yoga Demonstrations

yoga

Yoga Day 2019: The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry through its letter dated March 7, 2019, has forwarded the Common Yoga Protocol 2019 received from the Ministry of AVUSH, which is available for the reference of universities, the letter added. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed Universities across the country to organize Mass Yoga […]

Haryana To Fill 20,000 Government Jobs In Police, Education Departments

Jobs

In order to strengthen law and order, recruitment would be made to 5,000 posts in the Police Department and to fill the vacant posts of Group D, the candidates will be given preference who were in the waiting list of previous recruitment. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday said the government would initiate […]

Shut Down Corrupt, Substandard Teacher Education Institutions: Draft Education Policy

Education policy

The Education Policy also says the teacher education sector has been beleaguered with mediocrity as well as rampant corruption due to commercialization. The integrity and credibility of the teacher education system have unfortunately taken a great hit and witnessed a severe decline due to the thousands of “Teacher Education Institutions” that are solely commercial operations […]

Centralized Control Centre To Track Students, Teachers In Gujarat

Education

Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said his government has taken education seriously and allocated Rs. 25,000 crore in the budget for it. The Gujarat government on Sunday launched a centralized command and control center here to monitor the educational activities of thousands of government and aided schools across the state. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani inaugurated the center which […]

West Bengal Govt Lays Emphasis On Creating Village Entrepreneurs

Enterprenuership

For providing marketing linkage of Self Help Group (SHG) products, state SHG and Self West Bengal Empowerment Minister Sadhan Pande said that the government is opening counters in different towns as one-stop shops The government of West Bengal yesterday, June 6, 2019, laid emphasis on the culture of creating entrepreneurs in the village stating that it will […]

IIT Madras Hosts The 2nd Edition Of Carbon Zero Challenge To Tackle Environmental Problems In India

IIT Madras

From 996 applications from 25 states, 24 teams were shortlisted and received training and mentoring along with financial support of up to Rs 5 lakh to build their prototypes and evolve their business models. Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Virtusa Corporation organized the grand finale of the Second Edition of Carbon Zero Challenge, an […]

The Gist Of The National Education Policy Lets Contribute Something to it

Education Policy

Download the PDF for New Education Policy from the link given below The National Education Policy 2019, is the new face of the Indian Education system. Drafted under the guidance and the chairmanship of K. Kasturirangan, this policy undertakes various new ideas that can make the Indian Education System stand out from the rest of […]

UGC gives 6 months to fill all faculty vacancies

faculty vacancies

All colleges, universities and deemed universities have been given a six-month deadline to fill up their faculty vacancies, via a process that will be monitored at every step by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the University Grants Commission (UGC). Institutions which fail to meet the deadline were warned that their UGC grants […]