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According to UNESCO reports, the lack of accountability in the education sector is jeopardizing the progress in the area. It recommends that government  should adopt mechanisms to fix responsibility. The report from UNESCO was named as Global Education Monitoring (GEM) report which drew attention to the damage in education sector  by lack of accountability. The […]

On the lines of parent-teacher meetings, the higher education department will soon launch a Guru-Shishya Samvad (student-teacher dialogue) programme to address problems faced by students in various colleges. The programme will be launched in Jaipur soon, said higher education minister Kiran Maheshwari. She was speaking about the achievements of her department on completion of four years […]

Yes you read it right, the Rajasthan government is planning to discontinue interviews and instead select teachers on the basis of written exams, higher education minister Kiran Maheshwari.The minister was replying to a query on the large number of vacancies in government colleges and the delay in filling them Maheswari said that there were 1248 […]

The Bombay High Court has given the University of Mumbai another chance to ensure that the technical glitches it faced with the on screen evaluation, OSM system during the summer semester are not repeated during the winter semester this year. The court was hearing a bunch of petitions filed by students and the Bombay University […]

The Bombay High Court has given the University of Mumbai another chance to ensure that the technical glitches it faced with the on-screen marking (OSM) system during the summer semester are not repeated during the winter semester this year. The court was hearing a bunch of petitions filed by students and the Bombay University and […]

The Union human resource development (HRD) ministry has set up a three-member committee in line with a Supreme Court. It has been done in order to examine the working of deemed universities and suggest an “oversight” and “regulatory mechanism” for these institutions within four months. THE NEED FOR THE PANEL  The Supreme Court last month […]

In order to reduce the risk of losing the ‘university’ status, most deemed universities institutes in Pune have agreed to comply with the directive to drop the university tag from their names. This was after the higher education regulator, University Grants Commission (UGC), issued two directives on Wednesday. A total of seven educational institutes from Pune […]

The job market seems to be looking up—after a fine summer placement season at top business schools, it’s the turn of elite engineering grads now. All the older Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have seen a robust start to the two month-long final placement process with technology and core sector engineering emerging as preferred areas […]

The Jawaharlal Nehru University may soon start offering courses in engineering and management. Its academic council (AC) has already approval to setting up a school of engineering. The council also approved upgrading the special centre for Sanskrit studies into a school. The vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar had said earlier this year that the university was […]

The job market seems to be looking up. All the older Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have seen a robust start to the two month-long final placement process with technology and core sector engineering emerging as preferred areas of hire. TOP COLLEGES At IIT Kharagpur, students bagged some 188 offers on the first day on […]