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IIT Kharagpur To Adopt Amazon Web Services Educate Programme

IIT khadakpur

As part of AWS Educate, the students will gain access to 12 Cloud Career Pathways covering topics that are in demand by employers, such as machine learning, cybersecurity, and software development, each with over 30 hours of content. The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur will adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educate programme to help students gain cloud […]

Artificial Intelligence, Yoga Among New Subjects For CBSE Students

Artificial Intelligence, Yoga

CBSE has approved inclusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an optional sixth subject for class 9 students. CBSE students will now be introduced to the rapidly rising world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The central education board has approved inclusion of Artificial Intelligence as an optional sixth subject for class 9 students from the upcoming academic […]

Top 20 Famous Contributors to the Special Education Field

Top 20 Famous Contributors

Throughout the history of special education, over 4.5 million children were denied adequate schooling. But, over the years, many people often disabled themselves focused on education for people with disabilities. Some of these individuals broke barriers by fighting for their own educational experiences. The following list of 20 famous contributors to the special education field contains just a handful […]

IIT Kharagpur Inks MoU With C-DAC For High-Performance Computing Facility & Data Center

IIT Kharagpur

“Setting up of the 1.3 PetaFlop high-performance computing facility and data center is going to change the face of computation-based research and development in India,” an IIT Kharagpur statement said. The IIT Kharagpur has signed an MoU with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)to set up a Petaflop high-performance computing facility and data center […]

UGC Issues Guidelines For Setting Up Of Center For Women Studies

Women studies

“Women studies centers will have a special focus on most marginalized and disadvantaged women in the society,” said the UGC official. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued guidelines for setting up of Centre for Women Studies in universities and colleges and has sought proposals. According to a senior UGC official, “Women studies centers will […]

Tripura To Appoint ‘Academic Leaders’ To Improve Quality Of Education

Academic Leaders

Education and Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath said that Rs. 28 crore has been allotted for the new schemes. It’s not exactly carrying coal to Newcastle, but Tripura will appoint “Academic Leaders” and arrange special training of teachers by national and regional institutions to improve the quality of education in the state, Education and Law Minister Ratan […]

Dialogue Commission Sets Up High-Level Panel To Reform Higher Education In Delhi

Chief Minister Manish Sisodia

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said this initiative furthers the government’s commitment to transform the education system in the national capital. The Dialogue and Development Commission (DDC), a premier think-tank which advises the Delhi government on key policy issues, has set-up a 17-member high-level committee on reforming higher education in the national capital. The panel, […]

ITS National IT Convention

ITS National IT Convention

“Participate, Compete, Demonstrate & Let Best Win” This convention is aimed to provide a sharing platform for scholars, practitioners and researchers from Academia, Industry and Government organizations to share their views on the developments, on-going researches and future of technological advancements This will also provide an opportunity to Students of Higher Educational Institutions to come, […]

UGC Asks Varsities To Start Recruitment Process After Cabinet Clears Reservation Roster Ordinance

The communication by the University Grants Commission (UGC) came following the Cabinet’s approval for promulgation of the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Ordinance, 2019. After the Union Cabinet Thursday cleared a proposal for promulgation of an ordinance on reservation mechanism for appointment of faculties in varsities, the University Grants Commission (UGC) wrote to universities […]

University As A Unit For Reservation In Teaching Posts: Cabinet Clears Ordinance

Faculty Reservation

The Supreme Court had last month dismissed a review petition filed by the HRD Ministry after its special leave petition against the court order was rejected by the apex court. The Cabinet Thursday cleared an ordinance on reservation mechanism for appointment of faculties in universities, Union minister Arun Jaitley said. Earlier this week, Human Resource […]