Gujarat: Nine members of the board of trustees of the Gujarat Vidyapith on Monday said they have resigned in protest against the appointment of state Governor Acharya Devvrat as the new chancellor of the deemed university set up by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920 and claimed “undue haste” and “political pressure” in the selection. However, the apex … Read more
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has warned that it does not recognise online PhD programs provided by EdTech companies in collaboration with international educational institutions. The UGC also stated that in order to award PhD degrees to students, all higher education institutions must adhere to UGC regulations and its amendments. The UGC notice in a newspaper … Read more
Three Global academic non-profits — Educational Testing Services (ETS), American Institutes for Research (AIR), and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) —have expressed curiosity in serving to arrange India’s first nationwide school-level examination and evaluation regulator, based on sources. While ETS is internationally recognized for conducting TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) … Read more
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has introduced the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for the foundational period of children aged three to eight, the first time it has been developed for this level. The NCF will enroll children aged three in formal schooling, as outlined in the National Education Policy-2020 (NEP). The first of four NCFs … Read more
University Grants Commission, UGC has released an important notice for Ph.D students. The notice is regarding students of Ph.D getting misled by advertisements for online Ph.D programs offered by EduTech Companies in collaboration with Foreign Educational Institutes. The Commission already has its procedure to award Ph.D degrees to students. The Ph.D degree is awarded as … Read more
Varanasi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday said all languages have been given importance in the National Education Policy following which a month-long ‘Kashi- Tamil Samagam’ is being organised here under which about 25,00 people will come here from Tamil Nadu to understand the culture and importance of Kashi. “All languages have been given importance … Read more
Researchers from IIT-Roorkee have identified anti-viral compounds that can be used effectively to treat the Covid-19 infection. Through medication repurposing, computational, and antiviral experimental tests, the researchers discovered three such antiviral compounds. The Covid-19 pandemic spurred both computational and experimental studies all over the world to understand the structure and nature of SARS-COV-2 viral proteins … Read more
New Delhi: On the occasion of National Education Day (November 11), Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders paid tribute to India’s first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. The day marks the 134th birthday of India’s first education minister. Sharing two photographs of the leader with the country’s first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel … Read more
New Delhi: A committee has been formed to draught a plan for the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) to collaborate as a unified regulatory body, setting the way for the creation of the proposed Higher Education Commission of India (HECI). The committee, set up by UGC chairperson Prof … Read more