West Bengal Education minister Bratya Basu has chosen Malabika Sarkar, a retired professor of English literature from Jadavpur University, to head Presidency University. The official announcement was made by Bratya Basu on October 11 here. He said that Sarkar had been given a year’s tenure, but it may be renewed. Malabika is an alumni of...
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Dr. Y K Chawla has taken office as Director, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. The earlier director, Dr K K Talwar had served for seven years as the Director of PGIMER, at the premier tertiary health care institute of the Punjab region, leaving office around five months back in April. In...
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Professor M P Pandey has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor of Birsa Agriculture University (BAU), Jharkhand. Governor M O H Farook has announced his appointment. Presently, Pandey is working as a rice production expert at Indira Gandhi Agriculture University at Raipur in Chhattisgarh. According to the principal secretary to the governor, Sudhir Tripathy,...
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The central university of Jammu will soon have its first vice chancellor. Former Jammu and Kashmir chief secretary S S Bloeria is all set to take over the coveted post, revealed highly placed sources. With union government’s approval, S S Bloeria is set to become the first vice chancellor of Central University, Jammu. The...
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Eminent academician Professor Yash Pal has objected to key provisions of proposed National Commission on Higher Education and Research bill. The proposed bill requires vice-chancellors of central universities to be selected from a pool of candidates suggested by a collegium. The noted professor believes that such a rule will deny universities a say in...
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Professor S Rajeev has become the Director of the Asian School of Business (ASB), Trivandrum, Kerala. Prof. Rajeev has 25 years of experience in the IT sector. He has been teaching at the IIMs at Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Kozhikode prior to his appointment as Director. An MBA degree holder from Stanford Business School, he...
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E. Ahamed has become the new Minister of State for Human Resource Development. After the announcement was made regarding his appointment, Ahamed met Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Human Resource Development before assuming the charge of Ministry. The newly appointed minister met the senior ministry officials he understood the procedure and various functioning of...
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Dr. Rameshwar S Kanwar has been appointed as the vice-chancellor of Lovely Professional University. Professor Kanwar is a celebrated hydrologist and has taught at the prestigious Iowa State University, USA for more than three decades. An MS holder from G B Pant University of Agricultural and Technology in India and a Ph.D in water...
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In Gujarat, around 75% of teaching posts are lying vacant in 16 government engineering colleges and 26 polytechnics. The posts of professor, assistant professor and lecturer, among others, are vacant since last 10 years. Despite several protests by the concerned authorities no action has been taken yet. Gujarat University syndicate member Manish Doshi said,...
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Shiv Nadar, the founder of HCl Technologies been appointed as the chairman of the board of governors of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. The announcement was made through a statement released from the software major. “It is an honour to be entrusted the responsibility to further advance the global stature this great...
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