Breaking away from its earlier rigid guidelines that allowed students to take upon only one full-time degree at a time, the University Grants Commission recently announced that students can now voluntarily choose to pursue two degrees of the same level at the same time from recognized institutes. While it has the potential to widen students’ […]
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Vice President Naidu Calls for Taking Higher Education to Rural Areas to Make it More Inclusive, Equitable
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May
May
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday called for taking higher education into the rural areas and making it more inclusive and equitable. Speaking at the Centenary celebrations of the Delhi University, The Vice President said, “This dimension of inclusiveness and equitable access to education to rural youth is critical because education plays a key […]
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May
May
It is one of India’s oldest universities and has a rich history of student politics going back decades. But Osmania University (OU) has reportedly refused to approve former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the campus on May 7 for a “non-political” event. Though the university has not intimated its decision to the organisers in […]
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Apr
Apr
India’s top education regulatory bodies said that Indian nationals or overseas Indian citizens with a degree from a Pakistani educational institution “shall not be eligible for seeking employment or higher studies in India”. On Friday, the University Grants Commission and All India Council for Technical Education issued a joint “public notice” to Indian nationals to […]
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Apr
Apr
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday replied to the Higher Education Minister of Tamil Nadu regarding the issue of the Common University Entrance Examination (CUET) and said that Common University Entrance Test (CUET) has been introduced in pursuance of the National Education Policy, 2020. In a letter to the Education Minister of Tamil Nadu, […]
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Apr
Apr
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Puducherry on April 24 and will lay foundation stones for three academic buildings at Pondicherry University. Foundation stones of Rs 48.66 crores will be laid for the annex buildings to the Department of Physics and Chemistry and a new building for the Department of Food Science and Technology […]
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Purpose Of Quota To Inspire OBCs Get Higher Education, Authorities’ Duty To Further It: Delhi High Court
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Apr
Apr
The Delhi High Court on Thursday said the purpose of quota for OBC candidates is to encourage them to fulfill their dream of higher education and the authorities have a duty to further the constitutional goal of providing reservations for them. The remark was made by the court while directing the Delhi University to grant […]
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Apr
Apr
The West Bengal government on Wednesday said the Centre should give due respect to the eminent academicians, who have been included in the 10-member committee recently formed by the state to give recommendations about the New Education Policy 2020 draft. Education Minister Bratya Basu told reporters here that the state has not “closed its mind” […]
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Apr
Apr
The Madras High Court has directed the State Government to file its counter affidavit in a PIL filed by one Arjunan Elayaraja, seeking to implement the National Education Policy, 2020 in the State of Tamil Nadu. When the matter came up before the bench of Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy, […]
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Apr
Apr
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has simplified the procedure for an Indian higher education institution to offer programmes in collaboration with foreign universities by entering into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with each other directly if they meet certain eligibility criteria, said UGC Chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar. In its 557th meeting recently, the UGC decided […]