Author Archives: Mayank Arora

Sushant Rohilla Suicide: High Court Slams Education System

Coming down heavily upon the education system, of the country, Delhi High Court says, “It is completely de-humanised. It is a machine. The human element has been completely taken out. The contact between teacher and student is perfunctory. There is no connect, ” ruled out a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Najmi Waziri. The […]

President Launches Digital Initiatives In Education 

President Pranab Mukherjee launched two programmes to take education to the remotest corners of the country. This will be done with the help of technology. Mukherjee also launched a ‘National Academic Depository’ where verified educational records would be digitally stored by universities or a board to counter forgery. The programmes Swayam and Swayam Prabha were […]

An India Born is new dean of MIT engineering school

An India-born academician at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been named as the dean of its engineering school. Anantha Chandrakasan is the Vannevar Bush professor and head of the department of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). He assumed his new role effective 1 July. Chandrakasan succeeded Ian Waitz who is now […]

No UGC Approval To BU, Distance-Learning Students’ Future In Jeopardy

University Grants Commission (UGC) has come out with its list of recognition to Distance Learning Program Institutes for the year 2016-17. Bharathiar University (BU), headquartered at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu has missed it making to these five. Students Future in Doldrums With the UGC denying an approval to BU, the future of those enrolled in […]

Move To Curb Corruption In Education by asking to Declare Assets

Corruption In Education To curb corruption and bring in greater transparency, the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has asked all its employees to furnish details of their income and assets. This has to include property details. Once the data of assets is complete it will be put on the NCTE’s website and the figures […]

Sanjiv Goenka Renominated IIT-Kharagpur Chairman

RP Sanjiv Goenka Group Chairman, Sanjiv Goenka, has been renominated as the Chairman of the Board of Governors at IIT-Kharagpur. Highlights of Renomination 1. Goenka’s name was nominated by President, Pranab Mukherjee, in his capacity as Visitor of the Institute 2. This will be his second stint as the Chairman of Board of Governors. 3. […]

DIRI–ISB’s research initiative on Aadhaar

The Indian School of Business (ISB) has announced that  said it has launched the Digital Identity Research Initiative (Diri) . It has be done to promote an academic study of the Aadhaar card and its implications. DIRI–The Highlights 1. According to a statement issued by ISB, as a part of the initiative, the B-school will […]