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The required training to students and faculty from Afghanistan would be imparted by MHRD, Government of India. Union Cabinet, yesterday, approved signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Afghanistan on cooperation in the field of Human Resource Development. The MoU between the two countries will facilitate students and faculty of Educational Institutions […]

The AIIMS in Tamil Nadu was announced in the Budget Speech of Finance Minister in 2015-16 and Ministry of Finance conveyed its in-principle approval for establishment of AIIMS in Telangana in April, 2018. The Union cabinet has today approved establishment of two new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Tamil Nadu and Telangana. […]

University Grants Commission (UGC) has released a new notification in regard to the Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) for minority students for the year 2018-19. University Grants Commission (UGC) has released a new notification in regard to the Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) for minority students for the year 2018-19. According to the latest announcement, […]

UGC has in last week invited applications for awarding 1,000 MANF scholarship for minority students for the academic year 2018-19 after an interval of 2 years. Latest UGC notification on research fellowships for minority candidates has run into trouble after several researchers and student organisations raised questions about the criteria advertised by the Commission. The […]

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar Saturday said there would a separate ranking process for small universities in the country in future. Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said there would a separate ranking process for small universities in the country in future. He said since the ‘no detention policy’ might spoil the education, the government plans […]

The Central Government might rope in private agencies for accreditation of educational institutes. The Central Government might rope in private agencies for accreditation of educational institutes. The Union Minister for HRD, Prakash Javadekar said on Friday that the government had approached IITs and IIMs too in this regard. The Union HRD Minister had earlier also […]

The Union minister said that ranking and rating of education institutions increase competitiveness among them for better performance. The government is open to the idea of roping in “outside” agencies for accreditation of educational institutions, and IITs and IIMs have also been approached in this regard, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said here on Friday. “To […]

He said with the completion of the new medical colleges, 500 MBBS students would be annually added to the overall capacity of the course in the state. The Centre Wednesday released Rs. 260 crore to the Jammu and Kashmir Health and Medical Education department for five new medical colleges being set up in as many districts of […]

MHRD, Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Civil Aviation have announced a student competition to exhibit projects on aerospace technologies at Aero India 2019. Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Civil Aviation have announced a student competition to exhibit products / concepts / innovative ideas on aerospace technologies at Aero […]

Online education is increasingly being used to bridge the gaps that conventional education leaves us with. Can it really help you learn deeply and can you get a job after that? Here’s what these online learners told us. We live at a time when artificial intelligence and robots are coming to take away routine jobs. […]