The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), released in 2021, had 11 young universities featuring in the top 100. Ten of these, selected in the country’s official ranking of higher educational institutions, were all private universities set up in the last 15 years. Not only do the private universities feature more than newly-established public universities, but […]
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The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) might well be dissolved along with bodies such as the University Grants Commission (UGC) next year to make way for the Higher Education Council of India (HECI), as proposed by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. What does this mean for the functioning of the statutory body […]
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Four Indian Institutes of Technology — IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Bhubaneswar, and IIT Guwahati, have submitted their applications for Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP), the Ministry of Education informed Lok Sabha today, July 25. ITEP is a dual-major bachelor’s degree offering BA BEd, BSc BEd, and BCom BEd. It is one of the major […]
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Your higher education qualifications would now be recognised by the UK, and India would do the same to British qualifications, enabling a smoother movement of students between the two countries. This had been made possible thanks to the UK-India Enhanced Trade Partnership (ETP), a memorandum of understanding that was signed on Thursday.ETP was agreed upon […]
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India and the UK on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) officially recognizing each other’s higher education qualifications, which will pave the way for greater mobility for Indian students to take up postgraduate courses in Britain. The MoU, part of the India-UK enhanced trade partnership agreed on by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his […]
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Delhi University (DU) has 900 vacant faculty positions, the highest among all central universities, the Union government told Parliament Monday. The reply was in response to a question from Lok Sabha MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy (BJP), who had sought the number of permanent faculty positions lying vacant in central universities across the country. Minister of […]
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In an extraordinary and historic achievement, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has claimed the top honors in National Institutional Rankings Framework (NIRF) – India Rankings 2022 yet again, cementing its position as the Premier Higher Education Institute in India. IIT Madras retained its No. 1 ranking in ‘Overall’ category for the Fourth Consecutive […]
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Delhi University Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh has denied the claims that implementation of the Undergraduate Curriculum Framework will reduce the workload of teachers, and said that the issue is being “politicised”. Formulated under the New Education Policy (NEP), 2020, UGCF will be implemented from the academic year 2022-23. Teachers, especially from the English department, in […]
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In the backdrop of a tussle over power to appoint Vice Chancellors of state-run universities, West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu has pointed out that Governor Jagdeep Dhankar’s unilateral appointment of a VC for Rabindra Bharati University was at odds with the state government’s decision conveyed last month on re-examining the appointment process in view […]
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The Delhi University (DU) has announced that the classes for the students of the fifth and seventh semesters of graduate courses will begin on July 20 for the academic year 2022-23. The university has issued an academic calendar for the students of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth semesters. For the sixth and eighth semesters, […]