National Assessment Accreditation Council (NAAC) approved 21 institutions a recommendation for accreditation this month. Since NAAC accreditation ensures the qualitative analysis of teaching-learning outcomes at the Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) and helps them evolve systematically, academics foresee a brighter growth. Speaking to Education Times, Debabrata Das, director, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore that received […]
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A world-class teacher training university will soon be coming up in Delhi. The Delhi Teachers University Bill was introduced in the Delhi Assembly by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday. Manish Sisodia said that Delhi Teachers University will be the first of its kind in the country to produce world-class teachers. He said that […]
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The University Grants Commission has advised the central universities to teach courses based on student “demand” and “numbers”, raising the spectre of gradual elimination of some language and social science programmes at many institutions. Going by this directive, courses in humanities and the social sciences will gradually be closed down at public universities. Only professional […]
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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched NEAT 3.0 to provide the best-developed ed-tech solutions and courses on a single platform. Alongside this, he also launched the regional language textbooks prescribed by AICTE. How NEAT Helped the Economically Disadvantaged He remarked NEAT will play a game-changing role in bridging the digital divide, particularly amongst economically disadvantaged […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut.As per an official statement issued by Prime Minister’s Office, the university is established at Salawa and Kaili villages of Sardhana town in Meerut at an estimated cost of about ₹700 Crore. One of the key […]
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Ahmedabad, Jan 2 (PT) A two-day international conference of academic institutions will be organized here on January 5-6 in the run-up to the 10th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, with a focus on the implementation of the National Education Policy, 2020. The conference will aim to “effectively clarify the way to strengthen the relationship of industries, […]
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IISc Bangalore Replaces Ceiling fans with Wall-Mounted Fans to Prevent Student Suicides in Hostels
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The management at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has started replacing ceiling fans with wall-mounted fans at its hostels. Students have also been restricted from entering terraces and narrow balconies. The reason for this move is to prevent student suicides. Four students of the institute allegedly died by suicide in their hostel rooms […]
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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras have developed a class of fast and efficient ‘motion planning’ algorithms which can think like human beings and enable autonomous aerial, ground, or surface vehicles to navigate obstacle-cluttered environments. According to the team, the algorithms have been developed on the novel notion of ‘Generalised Shape Expansion’ […]
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Education in 2022: 4 Things to look forward to and how it is Going to be Different from Previous year
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The future of education looks as promising as never before. The two years of the pandemic have paved the way towards newer possibilities and innovative dimensions in learning. The NEP 2020 has laid down many structural and functional changes and updations are on the cards. The education industry stood up with the help of technology […]
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For the second year in a row, IIT Roorkee has been selected by the prestigious Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the Industrial Innovation Awards. IIT Roorkee bagged the first position under the Most Innovative Research Institutions category this year. The second and third positions have gone to IIT Madras and the Indian National Centre […]