The council has repeatedly asked private dental colleges to furnish proof of paying salaries to staff, but few obliged. It has now given them 15 days’ time to show the proof.
In its latest guidelines, UGC asks institutes to extend teaching hours in a day and adhere to a six-day schedule so classes can be conducted in phases to ensure social distancing.
Students of classes for 9, 10, intermediate first and second year will be called on alternate days. Classes for higher secondary colleges will be held on a rotation basis.
UGC revises academic calendar again. To compensate for loss of academic time, it has asked colleges to teach six days a week, without any summer or winter break, until 2022.
Students seem to be refusing to police themselves, so even universities that are testing a lot and isolating the sick aren’t able to control the cases.
The back-to-school rituals of US' college-bound have always entailed some drama, but they’re nothing compared with 2020, the year that Covid transformed education.
Students from GGSIPU, DTU and several other institutes are protesting against orders to make payment of full fees, saying they haven't used any campus resources.
The final version of New Education Policy document says the liberal arts institutes will be called Multidisciplinary Education and Research Universities or MERUs.
Many 'independent' reports, intended to shape policies, are sponsored by industry groups or entities with deep pockets and vested interests. This process must become transparent.
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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