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 […]
Tag Archives: Education
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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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UGC’s new policies for Higher Education Institutes to open new doors for Indian students [Explained]
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In 2022, University Grants Commission, UGC India announced its fair share of revised guidelines, and new regulations, a majority of which aim to work towards opening new doors for Indian students when it comes to Higher Education.In the past few months, UGC has implemented new guidelines and given the old guidelines refreshing amendments which seem […]
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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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Undergraduate Curriculum Framework Will Not Reduce Workload Of Teachers: Delhi University Vice Chancellor
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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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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday ordered a comprehensive probe into alleged irregularities in the post-matric scholarship scheme that had surfaced during the previous Congress regime in the state. Mann took to Twitter to announce this decision. “I have received files pertaining to the release of scholarship amount during the previous government. Irregularities have […]
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The Railway University in Gujarat’s Vadodara has been granted central status by the Union Cabinet, Union minister Anurag Thakur said on Wednesday. The university has been renamed as Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya. The Union Cabinet gave its approval to introduce a Bill in Parliament, namely, the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2022 to amend the Central Universities […]