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Delhi University to Appoint Teachers for its Four Year UG Course

Delhi University has decided to appoint teachers for its four-year undergraduate programme scheduled to begin from next year and the process for the appointment of teachers will start soon. According Vice-Chancellor Dinesh Singh, with the four-year undergraduate programme, teachers’ workload will increase substantially. We will require a large number of teachers. As soon as...
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Prabhu Dev: Bangalore University VC Quits

N. Prabhu Dev, Bangalore University’s vice-chancellor  has submitted his resignation to the Governor on October 13th. As per the sources in Raj Bhavan, Prabhu Dev met the Governor and expressed willingness to take up the post of the chairman of the newly formed Karnataka Health Systems Commission (KHSC).The chance are very high that the...
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Dhanpat Singh: Quality Education is the Key for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in association with the Government of Haryana organised EduSummit in Chandigarh. With the theme as ‘Taking Higher Education to the next orbit – Agenda for Reforms in the North’, CII’s EduSummit brought together academicians, corporates, financers, educational consultants and students to deliberate and debate on how higher education can...
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Anna University: Accreditation is mandatory for all 525 Engineering Colleges

In a strong move to to bring out employable graduates and innovators, Anna University has made accreditation mandatory for all the 525 engineering colleges affiliated to it. If all courses in all colleges get accreditation, students can graduate from any college and be given the same opportunities in the industry said university’s vice-chancellor P...
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Pearson Teaching Awards for Innovative Teachers across India

To acknowledge efforts of thousands of teachers, Pearson Group has decided to felicitate teachers who are igniting the potential of future India. The company has instituted the ” Pearson Teaching Awards” across 20 categories and invites nominations from teachers across India. The purpose of these awards is to recognize teachers who are going beyond...
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Calcutta University to Host 100th Indian Science Congress in Jan 2013

The University of Calcutta is all set to host the 100th Indian Science Congress in Kolkata from January 3-7, 2013. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who is the General President of the conference will be presiding over the event.He is expected to unveil the new science, technology and innovation policy at the five-day event. The...
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UGC’s has signaled to make LLM programme a one-year course

The University Grants Commission (UGC) is planning to make masters degree programme in law (LLM) of one-year duration instead of two. The idea behind the move is to stop best legal minds from going abroad to pursue similar programme in less time and retain the best talents in the field. A present, a student...
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Sachin Tendulkar to speak on integrating sports in education

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely considered to be one of the greatest batsmen of all time, after Don Bradman. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. Government has welcomed his suggestion to integrate sports in schools and higher education system. Tendulkar has written a...
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IIIT-Guwahati to be operationalised by 2014

Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)  will soon come with its Guwahati campus which is likely to be operationalised by 2014. Education and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the government was working towards a 2013 deadline for making the IIIT operational but in the event it failed, then it would become operational...
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Court ordered IIT to admit student possessing Hindi marksheet

In an interesting incident, the Jharkhand High Court has asked the authorities of IIT to admit a student who has marksheet in Hindi. Earlier, the admission cell of institute has denied to admit the student because of his marksheet. The hero of the event, Tausif Raza, a native of Jharkhand, had cleared the IIT...
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