Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia handed over cheques for Rs 48.14 crore to 6,820 students pursuing higher education under the Delhi government’s “Merit-cum-Means” financial assistance scheme on Monday. Over 13,000 students have received benefits amounting to Rs 87 crore under the scheme in the last three years. To ensure that no student is deprived of […]
Tag Archives: Education
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Oct
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The central government has issued a notification for the “Appointment of Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University“. The recruitment notice was released by the Education Ministry citing the need to have a “wider choice of selection” for the post of Vice-Chancellor. All the information related to the JNU VC recruitment is available on the official website […]
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In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centre has decided to put on hold the plan to make PhD a minimum qualification for recruitment of assistant professors this year. This information was recently shared by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The Minister stated that the government has decided to put on hold the mandatory PhD […]
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The Supreme Court today has issued notice and stayed the Calcutta High Court order by which it had directed the School Education Department, West Bengal to make payment of salaries to part-time teachers equal to basic pay in the scale of pay of regular teachers working in Higher Secondary Section in a non–government Aided Higher […]
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The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) of India won the prestigious UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize 2021 for ‘enabling education of persons with disabilities through technology-enabled inclusive learning materials, with a specific focus on Indian Sign language-based content’ in an award function organized at UNESCO’s New Delhi office on July 10, 2021. On behalf […]
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Both DU and JNU came out with their own reopening schedules following the Delhi Disaster Management Authority directives on August 30 allowing students of higher educational institutions to return to campuses as long as a 50% seating capacity is maintained Even as Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University have come out with plans for the […]
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Sep
Sep
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will add 21 higher education institutions across India offering cloud computing curriculum as part of their undergraduate and post-graduate programs starting in the 2021-22 academic year. The cloud computing curriculum will be included in engineering programs for computer science and information technology, degree programs such as Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of […]
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NIT Andhra Pradesh Recognized as ‘Best Institute in South India 2021’ by Centre for Education Growth and Research
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Sep
Sep
The National Institute of Technology, NIT Andhra Pradesh has been recognized as the ‘Best Institute in South India 2021’ by the Centre for Education Growth and Research, a New Delhi-based Education Think Tank. The award was presented during the 15th Rashtriya Shiksha Gaurav Puraskar Ceremony held on September 7, 2021. The award was presented in […]
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Sep
Sep
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore is having a tough fight to obtain the top rank in the National-level ranking index NIRF 2021 or National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). In 2020, IIT-Madras was ranked as the best institute in the country overall as well as in the […]
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Sep
Sep
Would you become a doctor or an engineer?’ Toddlers across the country face this ubiquitous question just as their parents fielded it when they were young. An IIM-A study has found a solid reason behind this rather obsessive insistence of parents that their wards study science — it found that graduating from science stream courses […]