Author Archives: Mayank Arora

UGC let universities and colleges to offer online degree courses

online degree courses

UGC allowing top Indian universities and colleges to offer online courses including Online degrees courses and diplomas from the academic year 2018-19 The University Grants Commission (UGC) is a statutory Organization of the Government of India by an Act of Parliament which was made for the coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of teaching, examination […]

IIM Ahmedabad, The Most Preferred Institution for executive education

IIM Ahmedabad

IIM Ahmedabad which was established in 1961 has now become the most preferred institution for the executive education. With the ranking of financial times, IIMA ranked 57thin the world and jumped 6 places above the last year. IIM director Errol D’Souza has given this information. Financial Times ranked IIM Ahmedabad 57thin the world In IIMA, […]

IIM-Ahmedabad set up Bharat Inclusion Initiative

Bharat Inclusion

IIM- Ahmedabad with the centre for innovation, incubation, and entrepreneurship (CIIE) had set up ‘Bharat Inclusion Seed Fund’ in which they will invest $25 million to the pre- series a technology start-ups.Initial pledge of $12.5 million received from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, and Omidyar Network. Bharat Inclusion […]

IIT Roorkee given 4th position among top IITs in Times Higher Education-2018

IIT Roorkee

IIT Roorkee has ranked 4 th among IITs in the 2018 Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies which is one of the world’s influential university rankings IIT, Stands for Indian Institute of Technology. IIT conducts their own entrance examination ever year and it is one of the toughest in the world. By cracking this exam, […]

In US, Indian students were the largest group to get authorized to work: PEW

According to pew research center report, India has the largest share in graduates to get authorised to work under the optional training program between 2004 and 2016 Indians with nearly 1.5 million foreign graduate students has formed the largest group in the US colleges and universities and got authorisation to remain and work there between […]

Commonwealth taking action to uplift digital education skills

Commonwealth

Named Commonwealth Digital Education Leadership Training in Action (C-DELTA), the platform that allows students and teachers to develop communities and demonstrate their effective use of digital education tools, and thereby influence others as leaders in digital education skills, COL said in a statement that they will be taking action to uplift education skills Digital India […]

12 fake education boards busted again by Delhi government

Fake education boards

The Directorate of Education (DoE) had made public a list of 12 fake education boards operating in Delhi. “No board with the name of ‘Board of Adult Education and Training’ is recognised by the directorate,” One side where State governments are trying to push education, on the other side there are people operating in the […]

Times Higher Education Rankings 2018: IISc climbed up to 13th place among institutions in emerging economies

Times Higher Education

The 2018 Times Higher Education Emerging Economies ranking revealed and it includes 42 of India’s institutions, with the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, rising up to the 13th place.India has taken several measures to improve global rankings of its universities in the recent past. These measures include establishing its own ranking process and allowing graded […]

IIM Calcutta seek to assign director

IIM Calcutta

Especially in light of the autonomy resulting from the IIM Act, the individual who will be assigned as the director to IIM Calcutta, will also be responsible for fundraising and be creating an endowment. IIM- Calcutta is one of the oldest IIMs in the country. It was one of the first Indian Institute of management established by the Government […]

Government taking savage action not refunding withdrawal fees

withdrawal fees

A senior HRD Ministry official says higher education institutions not returning withdrawal fees a student will soon face punitive action Higher education is valued because of its signalling power i.e. the college experience does not form people into more valuable or learned individuals capable of doing good work, but it sorts people into groups and […]