Chief Justice of India Justice N V Ramana on Saturday stressed on developing a model of education that teaches students how to face real-life challenges and lamented that institutions (of higher learning) were losing their social relevance with the ‘mushrooming of factories of education.’
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The Chhattisgarh government has decided to set up English medium colleges in Every district of the state over the next three years, a move aimed at facilitating the native students to pursue higher studies in the state itself,
Asserting that she loves the game of football, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced a grant of Rs 50 lakh for infrastructural development of two century-old clubs — East Bengal and Mohammedan Sporting. Banerjee, after inaugurating the East Bengal museum – Raja Suresh Chandra Memorial Archive – at its Maidan tent here, […]
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday said students should fix their goals while starting their careers and work hard to achieve them. He said the country and society should get the maximum benefit out of the education that a student gets. Mr. Birla was addressing the 7th convocation ceremony of the Central University of […]
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) commemorated the 76th Independence Day today, August 15. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Nageshwar Rao hoisted the national flag at the IGNOU campus in Maidan Garhi, Delhi. The University also organized an exhibition at the vice-chancellor’s office on this occasion.
After making a strong pitch for the merger of national-level engineering and medical entrances with the Common University Entrance Test ( CUET-UG), the union government is now keen on also merging the accreditation (NAAC) and ranking (NBA) bodies.
The seven-member panel headed by Shyam B Menon, former Vice-Chancellor of Ambedkar University, New Delhi, has observed that the governing structures of the University In Kerala have turned out to be academically counterproductive through uninformed, over-politicized, partisan, and external interference in their day-to-day functioning and recommended that the internal governance of the university should be sequestered from the administrative controls of the government.
Haryana Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution recommending the government to seek restoration of the state’s share in Panjab University, Chandigarh. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Education Minister Kanwar Pal said that Haryana must get its share in the affiliation of colleges to Panjab University, Chandigarh to protect the interest of the students and citizens of the state. The non-official resolution was moved by Congress MLA Geeta Bhukkal in the state assembly.
The extraordinary contributions to social psychology and management by Ramadhar Singh, currently a Distinguished University Professor at the Amrut Mody School of Management of Ahmedabad University have been marked on the ‘Heritage Wall of Fame’ of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in the United States.
Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, India’s leading multidisciplinary university was today inducted under the Ministry of Education, Government of India, and will now be known as Shiv Nadar University (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University). Established in 2011 by an act under the Uttar Pradesh State Government, the University has emerged as the country’s youngest institution for higher education to be conferred the prestigious title.