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Union HRD Minister Smt. Smriti Irani informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply to its question that the centrally funded IIITs, currently located at Allahabad, Gwalior, Jabalpur and Kancheepuram are fully funded by the Central...
There have been reports about the unfair practices in admission and related matters by institutions for higher education and exploiting students by charging capitation fee. This was confirmed by HRD Minister Smriti Irani in a written...
The ministry of minority affairs has introduced pre-matric, post-matric and merit-cum means based scholarship schemes to empower the minority communities through education, states a statement issued by the press information bureau. Under the merit-cum means scholarship...
After the scrapping of the controversial four- year under graduate programme of Delhi University, the government has informed Rajya Sabha that it has been replaced with the three year programme which was in place in 2012-13....
The Education Department’s annual budget estimates plan outlay of Rs 4,510 crore. It proposes few new schemes for 2014-15 apart from extending existing schemes. This is aimed to improve the quality of education especially at primary...
Four educational Bills will be introduced by the government in the upcoming budget session of the parliament which includes an academic depository Bill aimed at curbing educational fraud and helping employers verify potential job seekers’ educational...
Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) have commenced a joint Executive MBA (EMBA) programme. Prof. Devang V. Khakhar, director, IIT Bombay and Prof. Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor,...
A memorandum appealing the need for declaring the Central Government to be the controller of unaided CBSE schools was submitted to the Minister of Human Resources Development Smriti Irani by Indira Rahan, general secretary of...
Plans are on by the government to form a national innovation policy that would stress on innovation at the school level. Informing the directors and chairmen of 16 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) about the policy at...
Vice-chancellors of all universities have been asked to focus on strengthening and improving teachers’ education in universities. In a letter sent on June 30, Ved Prakash, Chairman, University Grants Commission (UGC), listed several steps that include synchronising teachers’...
The West Bengal government is investing Rs 1000 crore to create more infrastructure in higher education, said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. This initiative is taken so that the general category students are not affected when reservation...
The Delhi high court on 25 June, fixed the hearing of the petition on the FYUP-UGC issue on July 1. The petition has been filed seeking to restore the three-year degree undergraduate course in place of...