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JEE Main 2022 Application For April Session Underway, Key Points For Candidates

JEE Main 2022 Application For April Session Underway, Key Points For Candidates

The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2022 application has started. Candidates willing to take JEE Main for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes can apply online at jeemain.nta.nic.in by March 31. JEE Main 2022 will be held in two sessions this year – the first between April 16 and April 21, and the second session from […]

TBJEE Extends Tripura JEE 2022 Registration Deadline Till March 7

Centre Must Respect Educationists On West Bengal's Panel For NEP Draft: Minister

The Tripura Board of Joint Entrance Examination (TBJEE) has extended the deadline for its engineering entrance exam – TJEE 2022 registration. The registration date for TJEE has been extended till March 7, 2022. Earlier the last day to register for Tripura Joint Entrance Examination was today, March 2. Candidates who wish to apply for the […]

UGC Invites Feedback on Revised Draft NCF, Guidelines on Social Responsibility, Community Engagement in HEIs

UGC Pushes For Diversity in Foreign Students Coming to India for Studies

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has invited suggestions on revised draft National Curriculum Framework, and guidelines on “fostering social responsibility and community engagement in higher education institutions in India”. The Commission has invited feedback from students, teachers, researchers, and all stakeholders by March 15. The stakeholders can send their suggestions on University Activity Monitoring Portal […]

Jammu University To Be Declared Innovation And Research Hub Under NEP: Kansal

Jammu University To Be Declared Innovation And Research Hub Under NEP: Kansal

Jammu University will be declared an innovation and Research hub under the New National Education Policy (NEP). This was announced by the Principal Secretary of Higher Education, Rohit Kansal today. He was addressing the valedictory function of the week-long ‘Vigyan Sarvatra Pujyate’ festival held here at the University of Jammu. The festival coincided with National […]

Ministry of Education, Department of Higher Education, U1 Section Applauds UGC Move to Recognize Degrees in Bachelors and Masters in Sports Science and Sports Management

Delhi: 4,000 Sanskrit Teachers To Be Trained Under Professional Development Programme

International Sports University, Maharashtra, Pune welcomed the momentous decision by UGC to include Bachelor’s and Master’s in Sports Science and Sports Management as recognized degree options for the youth of India. The Maharashtra Government has been instrumental in driving the need to change the nomenclature of sports education to contemporary and future-oriented pedagogy. It will […]

Rs 1,200 Crore Earmarked to Aid Academic Research in Defence, Says DRDO Chairman

Rs 1,200 Crore Earmarked to Aid Academic Research in Defence, Says DRDO Chairman

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chairman Dr G Satheesh Reddy said on Sunday that there is a vast scope for the youth to work on research and innovation in the defence sector as more than 300 higher education institutes are working with DRDO and it has earmarked a fund close to Rs 1,200 crore […]

UGC’s draft Guidelines Seek to Make Campuses Inclusive and Accessible

Pakistani Degree Holders Will Not Qualify for Jobs or Further Studies in India: UGC-AICTE

The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Wednesday issued draft accessibility and inclusivity guidelines for higher education institutions with an aim to make campuses inclusive for persons with disabilities and transgender persons. The guidelines include suggestions on ensuring accessibility in terms of resources, infrastructure, curriculum, teaching-learning, and assessment. The draft guidelines have been issued as a […]

UGC Permits Autonomous Colleges Of India To Offer Online Courses

UGC Permits Autonomous Colleges Of India To Offer Online Courses

Education as a whole is currently experiencing a landsliding transformation, which is mostly good. A lot many factors are in play here right from the occurrence of the pandemic, the introduction of the new National Educational Policy, to the recent decision the union government took during the Union Budget of introducing digital universities across the […]

Unshackling Higher Education From Campuses Through Digital University in India

Delhi: 4,000 Sanskrit Teachers To Be Trained Under Professional Development Programme

Recent pronouncement to set a Digital University to impart world-class quality education is likely to kick off a paradigm shift in the higher education of the country which boasts of successful Gurukuls and Ashrams for residential education in ancient times. However, the legitimization of digital education had nucleated sometimes back with UGC (Open and Distance […]

IIT Guwahati to Collaborate With Assam Government on Various Projects to Boost Region’s Development

IIT Guwahati to Collaborate With Assam Government on Various Projects to Boost Region's Development

Officials from several departments of the Assam government and the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati had a detailed meeting to prepare to plan the future course of action and collaborate in many disciplines linked to the region’s development. The delegation from the state government consisted of officials from various departments like Mines and Minerals, Industry, […]