DUTA Condemns Postponement Of Academic Council’s Meeting The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) on Tuesday wrote to the varsity’s vice-chancellor (VC) Yogesh Tyagi, condemning the postponement of the academic council’s meeting and threatening action if it is not convened within a week. The meeting of the academic council was slated to take place on Wednesday. Read More
Around 1,300 students had registered for the campus placements during 2018-19.CHENNAI: When the first phase of placement process concluded on Saturday, Indian Institute of Technology or IIT, Madras, witnessed the highest ever number of job offers made in its history. As many as 888 offers made from 195 companies, including the 136 pre-placement offers, now the total Read More
The CBSE has been asked to work with state boards to remove marks disparity. (Representational Image) The Centre has instructed the CBSE (Centre Board for Secondary Education) to discuss how to remove the disparity between marks awarded to examinees by it and that by various state boards, Union minister Satya Pal Singh said here on Thursday. Read More
The Ministry of Women and Child Development is formulating guidelines for children’s hostels, prescribing the minimum standards of care that should be provided to children. This comes in the wake of institutions, housing children on the request of parents who are unable to take care of them and their education or due to other circumstances Read More
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) started the placement season for 2018-19 on a very strong note with 215 offers received from 10 companies including 150 Pre-placement offers (PPOs) by companies other than these ten also. The Institute also received 7 international offers. The highest salary in Domestic was at Rs. 47 lakh and the International Read More
The Jammu and Kashmir government announced Thursday three-month winter vacation for schools in Kashmir division and other areas falling under winter zone in the state. According to an order issued by the School Education Department, winter vacation for students up to class 8 would be observed from December 6, 2018 to March 3 next year. Read More
Doctoral degree holders from the top 500 foreign universities are now eligible for direct recruitment as an assistant professor in Indian varsities, according to the UGC. As per the new recruitment norms, the top 500 ranking of the university shall be referred from four famous world university ranking systems — Quacquarelli Symonds , Times Higher Read More
Professor Punyasloke Bhaduri of the Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata was awarded the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship by the central government for 2017-18. Under this scheme, scientists are provided with generous support to pursue research in the frontier areas of science and technology, the statement said Monday. Young scientists, with excellent track Read More
The HRD Ministry has issued a Letter of Intent (LoI) to the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) to grant it deemed university status, an official said Thursday. The University Grants Commission (UGC) had in August recommended the HRD Ministry to grant deemed university status to the IIMC. “An LoI has been issued to the Read More
An EC member said the rationale provided for opening a food court was to provide more “Indian food”. Canteens and dhabas on JNU campus could soon make way for Haldiram’s and McDonald’s outlets, after a decision was made at an Executive Council (EC) meeting held on Tuesday to close some canteens and set up a Read More
