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Higher Education in Gujarat

Higher Education in Gujarat

As a major aspect of the “Study In Gujarat”   initiative to charm students from other parts of the nation and abroad, the state will focus on charming students from Bangladesh and other Islamic countries. State education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, principal secretary higher education, Anju Sharma with other officers will visit different countries and do roadshows to motivate candidates to pursue higher education in Gujarat

NOU Vacancies Will Be Filled Soon, Says Government

NOU

Teaching staff shortages, a nagging problem in North Odisha University (NOU) at Baripada in Mayurbhanj district, can be completed as soon as the state government has directed the university to fill the vacancy. The main campus is in Takatpur NOU while operating the second campus of Suleikhama in Keonjhar. Staff crisis has affected the study […]

PM Modi To Inaugurate Science Congress Today; 2 Nobel Laureates Among Attendees

Science

Top scientists, including two Nobel laureates, will be among academicians, policymakers and other delegates to attend the 107th Indian Science Congress, to be unveiled today by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The five-day event will see Ada E Yonath, an expert in structural biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and Nobel laureate Stefan Hell […]

Plans to Offer Higher Education in 22 Regional Languages

education

The Central Government is conducting high-level discussions to improve and tweak the new education policy Higher Education Program offers in 22 languages. It would be a welcome step as the most disciplined, especially technical courses, relied heavily on English. Once burned fingers with the design in New education policy in 2019 on the question of […]

Citing Nobel Numbers, Goa Governor Raises Low Spending on Education

nobel

Goa Governor Satya Pal Malik on Wednesday said that India has five Nobel laureates, stating that six of the 12 Indians who have won the award is a “foreigner.” One award winner was ‘Mother Teresa.’ Speaking at a function organized by the National Institute of Oceanography in Panaji, Malik said inadequate government spending on could […]

Teacher’s and Professor’s Pay Revision Notified in Kolkata

Professors

West Bengal Government on Monday issued a notice to the revision of salaries of teachers and Professors of public universities aided and government-aided colleges and universities that the government will be effective from January 1, 2020. We might remember that on November 1, CM Mamata Banerjee has announced that the revised UGC pay scale, as […]

UGC Issues Norms for Ethics in Higher Education

Ethics

At the time of widespread protests by students, Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has unveiled new guidelines for Values ​​and Ethics in Higher Education. In the section on the role of different stakeholders, the guidelines prepared by the University Grants Commission has the following suggestions to the student union: “Support for the legal […]

HRD Ministry Launches 5 Documents Covering 5 Verticals of Quality Mandate

Ramesh Pokhriyal

Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Union Human Resource Development Minister, has launched five documents developed by UGC covering five verticals of quality mandate here on Thursday. A release by the officials mentioned that these five documents cover evaluation reforms, sustainable and ecofriendly university campuses, human values and professional ethics, academic research integrity, and faculty induction. Speaking on […]

UGC Improvised Syllabus of PhD Students

PhD Students

PhD Students in India must now learn ethics and publication errors. They will now learn about Plagiarism and all the research ethics. UGC sent a circular letter to all higher education institutions affiliated to it on Thursday said it had approved a two-credit course on ethics and publication errors. Entitled Research and Publication Ethics (RPE), […]

Artificial Intelligence is the Need of Hour: Prof Dilip Chandra Nath

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, also known as machine intelligence, is demonstrated and conducted by machines in contrast to the average intelligence displayed by humans.  It was back in 1956; the term was first used by John Macarthy. But it came in use much before 1956. It was for the first time that this subject came for lively […]