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No Proposal To Bring DU Under ESMA : HRD Official

The study to bring these activities under ESMA meant that the teaching, non-teaching staff and students would be prohibited from indulging in actions that will disrupt and effect activities in the university. There is no such proposal to bring Delhi University under ESMA or Essential Services Maintenance Act, says a Ministry of Human Resource Development […]

Tezpur University Ranked 146th Amidst BRICS Nations

In India amongst the top 20 overall ranking, IIT-Bombay occupies the eighth position, followed by IISc-Bangalore at the 10th position, IIT-Madras achieving the 17th rank and IIT-Delhi at the 18th; while TU ranks the 36th position out of 75 higher learning institutions. The Tezpur University stated that it has been ranked 146th amongst the 400 […]

Prestigious Einstein Prize for Indian American professor Abhay Ashtekar

Abhay Ashtekar to be honored by the American Physical Society on October 23 for his commendable work. The American Professor with the Indian origin, Abhay Ashtekar is going to be honored with the illustrious Einstein Prize along with $10,000 as an award on October 23, 2018, by American Physical Society, APS. After nearly four decades of outstanding […]

MIT Unveils New $1 Billion College for Artificial Intelligence

The much-esteemed university stated that it would add 50 fresh faculty members and would even construct an interdisciplinary hub for works in computer science, data science, AI, and other related fields. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced its plans to establishing a new college of artificial intelligence. Concentrating on the ‘responsible and ethical’ uses […]

DU Launches System For Faculty Members To Update Personal, Professional Details

The very flexible system as the faculty members will not have to wait for the year to end, for their achievements to be updated on the university’s website. The Univesity Information Management System a new launch to manage the personal and the professional information precisely, for the faculty members by Delhi University. Under this system, […]

Withdraw ‘Tripartite MoU’, Demands Delhi University Teachers

The protest march by hundreds of teachers and students against the ‘Tripartite MoU’ has shaken the authorities. The march began from the Mandi House moving towards the Parliament under the banner of DUTA. The Central Government’s Tripartite MoU was supposed to issue an Ordinance on the Reservation Roster. This Ordinance was supposed to fill up […]

Private Universities To Get Their Scrutiny Stiffened : UGC

The government is in favor of granting more funds to the institutions providing quality education, on the condition that the standards are not diluted. The sudden rapid growth of private universities is a big question to the quality and the standard of education in India. Although the University Grants Commission has been working on revising […]

Institutes Not Returning Fees After Withdrawal Of Admission Will Face Action: HRD Minister Satyapal Singh

Dr. Satyapal Singh, Minister of State for HRD Ministry, recently tweeted; informing the Higher Education Institutes that they will no longer be allowed to exploit the students. The Institutes will have to return/refund the fees in case a student withdraws his/her admission. Failing to do so will result in strict action against the particular Higher Education […]

Accreditation: An Imperiative Step To Be Taken By The Higher Education Institutes

Accreditation would help in improving the overall quality of higher education in the country. An alarm has been set by AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) for all the Higher Education Institutes to get accredited by 2022. It has been declared as mandatory for such institutions to update their accreditation status on their official […]

IIT Indore surpasses IIT Bombay; IISc retains top Indian University position in Times Ranking

49 Indian Universities in the list of rankings 2018 in comparison to 42 in 2017 which include more than 1250 universities worldwide. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Banglore holds its position and still on top of the list of Indian Universities in Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2019. As an impressive debut entry by […]