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Institute of Excellence (IoE) status to be given to six colleges, UGC is expected to approve the proposal to announce the names of the institutes on Monday. This status will entitle these institutes to special incentives. 20 Institutes – 10 Public and 10 Private will get complete academic and administrative freedom under the HRD ministry’s […]

A proposal has been approved by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday to widen the capacity of the HEFA by increasing its capital base from the present Rs 1,100 crore to Rs 10,000 crore, also it is the responsibility of HEFA to Mobilise funds of Rs 1.00,000 crore by 2022 for Revitalising Infrastructure and systems in […]

A computer vision approach for monitoring the railway tracks health using drones and data from the satellite has been developed by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee The primary goal of this project is to replace the present manual inspection of the railway tracks with some automated method for the track inspection. Dharmendra […]

Less government and more governance, ending the inspection raj, Enhancing the academic quality, ensuring compliance with the academic quality standards, and ordering the closure of institutions will be the features of the new higher education commission. According to the Ministry Of HRD, a final decision is yet to be taken about shifting of UGC funds, […]

The Decision of the centre to scrap the UGC from the higher education sector and introduce a new regulating body has not been appraised by the academicians, instead, have questioned the involvement of the politicians in the matters of higher education. The decision to replace the UGC with the HECI was announced by the Ministry […]

The Government’s plan to replace the University Grants Commission (UGC) with the New Higher Education Commission of India (HECI)  was today condemned  by the Delhi University Teacher’s Association ( DUTA)  and said this will lead to increased Government direct interference  The body said that it is unclear why this change is needed and how this […]

This is one of the biggest decision towards reforming the higher education system of India.  The Narendra Modi Government has decided to withdraw the University Grants Commission which was set up under the UGC act 1951 and planning towards UGC to be dissolved has taken forth in a new development Unable of establishing a single […]

Prakash Javedkar, Human resource development minister clarified on Monday that CTET would be conducted in 20 languages as it was the reports of the decision of the CBSE to eliminate Tamil and 16 other languages from the list of languages for the test. Javedkar mentioned in a tweet “ The CTET examination will be conducted […]

According to the Quacquarelli Symonds world rankings, The Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay has been declared as the best-ranked institute in the country. Moving up by 17 places from 179 to 162 the institute’s  position improved significantly from the last year , it scored 48.2 out of 100 overall , 52.5 in academic reputation , […]

The IGNOU and Health ministry on Monday entered into an agreement to train 14 lakh youth in the healthcare sector over a period of 4 years in order to meet the increasing demand for skilled and trained professionals. In a tweet by the health minister JP Nadda, he said “ we aim to train over […]