Author Archives: Mayank Arora

The board of IIMA (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad) society appoints Errol D’Souza as Director-In-Charge of the institute. The incumbent Ashish Nanda, who resigned in the last week of April, will relinquish office on 1 September. Nanda’s resignation came as a surprise for many; the decision to quit a year before the expiration of his […]

“Idea has not been completely discarded: HRD Ministry The human resource development (HRD) ministry has decided to junk the plan of introducing a common engineering entrance exam from next year. WHY WAS CEE JUNKED The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) had announced in March that a national-level common entrance examination (CEE) for engineering […]

In a meeting of the Joint Admission Board (JAB) responsible for conducting the IIT entrance examinations, the decision to conduct the entrance online was passed on August 20 2017. Apart from this, JAB has also announced that multiple choice questions (MCQ) will be replaced with brief answer type questions, requiring the examinees to type in […]

IT Entrance Examination at designated centres, no use of pen and paper The entrance examination for the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will go completely online from 2018. This has been decided but the Joint Admission Board (JAB) recently. The JAB, which is the policy-making body on IIT admissions, took the decision at a […]

The Maharashtra State Board for Technical Education(MSBTE) has decided to work upon improving the communication skills in their students starting this academic year. The Board’s focus will also be on imparting numerous soft skills, a necessary requirement in today’s changing industrial landscape. The announcement came after the had received repeated industry requirements, as candidates lacked […]

The prestigious Udaan Scholarship was awarded by SKF India to 40 meritorious girls from the Marathwada region on Friday. The official announcement came at the at a ceremony held at Yashada Auditorium in Pune. The girl students and their family members attended this ceremony in the presence of Dr Sayali Gankar, director, MIT School of […]

In a boast to the IIT, IISc research projects, the centre will now provide Rs70,000 as monthly fellowship to researchers. These researchers must be doing their PhDs in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) or Indian Institute of Science (IISc). This was informed by Union higher education secretary Kewal Kumar Sharma. Highlights of the Scholarship Presently […]

 National Board of Examinations (NBE) has removed Bipin Batra from the post of executive director. NBE has taken this stand stating that his appointment had not been approved by the central government NBE is the apex examinations body for postgraduate medical education in the country. The governing body of NBE in its meeting decided to […]

The Union cabinet has finally approved the creation of a “non-lapsable corpus fund” for secondary and higher education. This will help fund select education schemes for which demand exceeds budgetary allocations. The Fund: Madhyamik and Uchchtar Shiksha Kosh (MUSK) –Will have proceeds from the 1% cess the government collects under the ‘secondary and higher education […]

Three women have reached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Review’s Innovators Under 35 list this year. THE PROUD WOMEN 1. Radha Boya, a researcher from University of Manchester’s Graphene Research Institute 2. Suchi Saria, a researcher from Johns Hopkins University 3. Neha Narkhede, co-founder of a Palo-Alto start-up, Confluent Inc. Radha Boya The 32-year-old […]