Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister for Human Resource and Development has targeted a 30 per cent enrollment in higher education by 2020 and private educational institutions would have to play a key role to achieve it.”I have set a target of 30 per cent enrolment in higher education institutions by 2020-end. Government-run schools and...
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Kapil Sibal: 30 percent enrollment in higher education by 2020
Mangalore University to Digitise PhD Theses
In a move to increase the credibility of research, Mangalore University has decided to host dissertation of PhD students online. The institution will be signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with INFLIBNET, which is assigned to host, maintain and make the digital repository of Indian Electronic Thesis and Dissertation through ‘Shodhganga’, a web portal...
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Microsoft Corporation Plans to Offer Tech Courses to Indian Academia
Microsoft Corporation has planned to offer its new education programme to the Indian academia for capacity building through faculty and making students more employable. According to managing director, Microsoft India Ltd., Sanket Akerkar said that our new education programme will help academic institutions across the country with relevant topics, partner with us for technology...
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H R Bhardwaj: UGC, AICTE have become Obsolete
H R Bhardwaj, the Karnataka’s Governor and Chancellor of Universities has said that India needs more private industry participation in the education sector. While criticizing the regulatory bodies, including the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the University Grants Commission (UGC), he said they have become “almost defunct now”. The government should...
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Panjab University PhD Theses to be Digitized
In an effective move to provide an easy access to research work to scholars at the campus, Panjab University has decided to digitize PhD theses of students completed between 1956 to 2007. PU’s Board of Finance (BoF) passed Rs 35-lakh budget for digitization of 8,000 theses, along with rare manuscripts and books with the...
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Govt signals ICSSR to open more Research Institutes
Human Resource Development (HRD) and Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) together will set up a joint committee to identify both the regional areas as well as new disciplines of study where the council will set up its new research institutes. A group for evaluating the position of research institutes including a minimum...
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ISB to Train Pak’s Corporate Managers in a Karachi Institute
The Indian School of Business (ISB) has joined hands with one of the institutes in Karachi naming Institute of Business Administration (IBA) for its first joint executive education programme in Pakistan. The joint programme is titled ‘Leadership Skills for Top Management’ and is aimed at business leaders in Pakistan to sharpen their leadership skills....
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IIMs,NITs & IITs might introduce campuses in UAE
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), National Institute of Technology (NIT) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) might open campuses in UAE. Addressing a gathering, Union Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal said, “The government has given permission to Amity University to set up a campus in Dubai. Now, IITs, IIMs and NITs can...
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