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Teachers Can’t Be Asked To Perform Non-Educational Duties Outside RTE Act

RTE Act

The high court held that principals and teachers cannot be asked by municipal corporations to perform duties outside the purview of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act and rules under it. The Delhi High Court has taken the authorities to task for assigning duties to school teachers which are “not […]

Bring Ordinance On Reservation Roster For Teaching Positions, Manoj Jha Writes To Prakash Javadekar

Prakash Javadekar

The UGC had announced in March that an individual department should be considered as the base unit to calculate the number of teaching posts to be reserved for SC/ST candidates following an order by the Allahabad High Court in April in 2017. Rajya Sabha MP and Delhi University professor Manoj Jha has written to HRD […]

30% Increase In Undergraduate Medical Seats In Last Four-And-Half Years: PM Modi

30 percent more seats

PM Modi also inaugurated the super specialty blocks of Rajaji Medical College, Madurai, Thanjavur Medical College, and Tirunelveli Medical College as part of up gradeation projects of these facilities. Emphasising the increase of 30 per cent in undergraduate medical seats in the last four-and-half years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asserted that NDA government […]

Republic Day Special: Padma Vibhushan Award Winners 

padma vibhushan

The Padma Awards seek to acknowledge the achievements made in all fields of disciplines where a component of public service is involved. The Padma Vibhushan Awards are India’s second highest civilian honor. PADMA AWARDS One of the highest civilian honors of India is the Padma Awards. They are announced annually on the Republic Day of […]

DU’s Admissions Committee To Meet Today, May Discuss Upper Caste Quota

10 % Quota Law

The admissions committee officials, however, said that they had not received anything in writing about it till now. The Admissions Committee of the Delhi University will meet here Tuesday and may discuss the implementation of 10% quota for economically weaker section of the general category, sources said Monday. The varsity’s Academic Council, in its meeting […]

Atmosphere Needed To Attract Brightest Minds To Teaching: Pranab Mukherjee

Pranab Mukherjee

“I can say without doubt that Patna University as a collective has played a significant role in the spread of education, especially higher education, research and innovation,” he said. Former President Pranab Mukherjee stressed on the need for creating a conducive atmosphere to attract the brightest of the bright into teaching, research, and innovation. “There […]

Narendra Modi led Cabinet Approves Rs 3,600 Crore To Construct 13 Central Universities

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“This would increase access to higher education and set exemplary standards for other universities to emulate. It will also help in minimising the regional imbalances in educational facilities,” said Union Minister Piyush Goyal. The government has recently gave its approval for Revised Cost of Estimate (RCE) for the construction of 13 new central universities, to […]

Indian Education Congress 2019

indian education congress

Conference Overview Welcome to the 9th Indian Education Congress, come walk the most fertile space where the delegates will be enlightened with insightful sessions in a specially crafted Peeer2Peer forum, where the torchbearers of Indian and Global Education fraternity will speak their minds in an exclusive face off to find uni-directional approaches that will usher […]