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Minister of State for Higher and Technical Education Ravindra Waikar has announced that Mumbai University students could be allowed to take supplementary answer sheets in their exams. The MU had earlier banned students from taking supplements as it led to mistakes in the online assessment marking system. STATE EDUCATION MINISTER COMES TO RESCUE Mr. Waikar […]

Indian students’ flow to the US for higher education rose 12.3% in 2016-17, a three-year low, amid concerns over changes in US immigration policy. THE SAD FIGURES According to official data released on Monday, a total of 186,267 Indians were studying in the US universities in 2016-17. In 2015-16, the number had grown by 24.9% […]

  The University Grants Commission has asked all the deemed universitiesto drop the word “university” from their names, or lose the deemed tag. Why Drop “University” From Name In a letter dated November 10, the University Grants Commission (UGC), has asked 123 Deemed-to-be-Universities to drop the word ‘University’ from their names. The letter cites a […]

The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of the National Testing Agency (NTA).  WHAT IS NTA — an independent body dedicated to conducting entrance tests for higher education, on the lines of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in the United States — will conduct entrance tests entrusted to it by any department or ministry — […]

Ambedkar University Delhi Vice-Chancellor Shyam Menon Friday said the frequent “fiats” from the University Grants Commission to celebrate various days was a “mindless attempt to control and standardise”. Menon said Indian higher education resembled the society. “It is caste ridden. There’s a caste system in higher education; there are hierarchies and types of institutions. Much […]

    The Union Cabinet, in a landmark decision, has approved the setting up of ‘National Testing Agency (NTA)’. The NTA would be the sole authority to conduct entrance examinations for higher education institutions. The move has lauded and called ‘historic’ by the Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar. What Falls Under CBSE, AICTE So Far […]

The government’s 2018 national ranking for colleges and universities is likely to get more competitive as many popular institutions have applied for the first time for inclusion in the list, which will be announced next April. A total of 4,734 institutes across the country are in the fray this year. That’s 1,525 more applicants than […]

Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for HRD, has said that the government committed to introducing basic changes in the education system and also providing greater autonomy to institutes to pursue research, development and innovation. AIM OF EDUCATION 4.0 Education 4.0 aims to — respond to the global needs where men and machine align to enable new […]

Supreme Court order recently banned technical education through distance mode and cancelled degrees of hundreds of students who passed out between 2001 and 2005. Now the central government is now working on the idea of strengthening the powers of its regulators.  THE CURRENT SCENARIO Regulators for higher education — University Grants Commission (UGC) and All […]

A relief to aspiring teachers. Telangana government has said that engineering and degree holders can now seek admission to Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) courses without qualifying the Telangana Education Common Entrance Test (Edcet). THE HIGHLIGHTS 1. The Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) has also amended the eligibility criteria for management quota seats this […]