The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has now placed four courses under its ambit — BBA, BBM, BMS, and BCA — and wants to produce model curriculum as well as alter the examination format. Experts, including academics and industry leaders, will create the model curricula, and institutions will be forced to follow 80% … Read more
The curriculum of the National Eligibility Test — an eligibility test required for individuals seeking teaching employment in India’s higher educational institutions — would be altered, according to M Jagadesh Kumar, head of the UGC. A conference on November 3 resolved on the adjustment of the syllabus. The UGC will appoint an expert committee to … Read more
The National Medical Commission has issued the NEET UG 2024 syllabus changes. Candidates who plan to take the National Eligibility Cumulative Entrance Test 2024 can view the syllabus on the NTA’s official website, nta.ac.in. According to the official announcement, the NEET UG 2024 syllabus has been decided by the Under Graduate Medical Education Board, an … Read more
On November 22, 2023, the President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu, inaugurated the Brahma Kumaris, Sambalpur Education Campaign ‘New Education for New India’ in Sambalpur, Odisha. This program is intended to instill ideals and raise kids’ awareness for a better society. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that education has always played an important and … Read more
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has requested that higher education institutions inform students about Constitution Day 2023 and urge them to engage in the festivities planned as part of it. Every year on November 26th, India celebrates Constitution Day or Samvidhan Divas to commemorate the adoption of the Indian Constitution. Reading the Preamble to the … Read more
A high-level committee appointed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to revise the school curriculum for social sciences has recommended that epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata be included in textbooks, and that the Preamble to the Constitution be written on classroom walls, said committee chairperson CI Issac on Tuesday. … Read more
On November 21, the University College London (UCL) announced a new scholarship program that would allow 100 of India’s top students to study at one of the world’s premier institutions in the UK. According to the official announcement, 33 scholarships will be offered for the 2024-25 academic year, and will be granted to excellent students … Read more
The education ministry stated in a statement on Tuesday that six non-BJP-ruled states did not participate in the first State Educational Achievement Survey, which was conducted earlier this month by national assessment authority PARAKH. Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, and West Bengal are the six states. The survey was conducted on November 3 to understand … Read more
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has launched the GATE 2024 application amendment window. Registered students can make changes to their application forms on the official website, gate2024.iisc.ac.in. Candidates have till November 24 to make modifications to their Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) application form. Candidates must pay the authorized cost to make … Read more
Rajnish Kumar, a faculty member in the chemical engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), has received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award in the field of engineering for the year 2022 for his work on sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2), a process that returns carbon to the earth. Prof. Kumar has been working … Read more
The Office of the School of Arts and Humanities at Cambridge University is accepting applications for an AHRC CDA doctoral studentship offered by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, which will begin in October 2024. Candidates can apply for this PhD scholarship until December 5th. Interested candidates should apply online at jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43145/. The studentship will … Read more
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) celebrated its 38th foundation day today (November 19), with the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Vinai Kumar Saxena, in attendance as the chief guest. “IGNOU stands tall, as a beacon of knowledge and academic excellence in the field of inclusive education and distance learning, delivering a flexible, learner-centric, cost-effective, … Read more
The National Testing Agency (NTA) today released the detailed exam schedule for the December 2023 session of the University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC NET). The UGC NET Dec 2023 exam will be held from December 6 to December 22, 2023, according to the official schedule. The city intimation slip for the UGC NET exam … Read more
The academic calendar for BA LLB (hons), BBA LLB (hons), Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP), Postgraduate Diploma in Cybersecurity and Law, MA Hindu Studies, MA Korean, and MA Chinese courses has been released by the University of Delhi. The academic calendar can be downloaded from the university’s website, admission.uod.ac.in. According to the calendar, semester 1 … Read more
Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & IT, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, has launched a nationwide roadshow on Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) Program, jointly organized by C-DAC, IEEE India Council, and MeitY, featuring global leaders in the RISC-V design area. As part of the Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) program announced by … Read more