Topic: Foreign students
HRD Ministry sets up panel to explore ways ensuring students pursue higher studies in India
Addressing a session on ‘Stay in India and Study in India’, HRD Minister Pokhriyal also focused on the Indian students returning to the country due to Covid situation.
Sending foreign students home hurt US economy when it needs them most
Given how much international students contribute to economy, you might assume ICE would find a way to keep them in the US.
Former minister Jo Johnson bats for UK to welcome international students forced to leave US
Boris Johnson's brother Jo took to Twitter to suggest that foreign students, who are being asked to leave the US, could transfer to UK universities under an emergency scheme.
US move asking foreign students to leave is arbitrary, injects uncertainty between strategic allies
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Foreign students will have to leave US if their university goes fully online
Foreign students will also not get new visas if university holds classes fully online – a setback for institutions that depend on international students.
JNU will now allow international students to enrol at its School of Engineering
School of Engineering, founded in 2018, will now have 15% supernumerary seats for foreign students, according to JNU’s Academic Council.
Australia to open borders for one group: International students
Australia’s higher education sector has become increasingly reliant on overseas students with 40% of revenue coming from the higher fees they are charged.
India to launch GRE-like aptitude test InSAT for foreign students from next year
India hosts about 54,000 foreign students, but most universities use different criteria for admission. Govt says common entrance test will make things uniform.
Less than 20% with foreign MBBS degrees eligible to work as doctors in India
Those with MBBS degrees from Bangladesh fare the best while the bottom of the list is filled with degree holders from China and Russia.
Role of 2 Hindu radical activists in focus for Sharda University clashes
Deepak Sharma, Ved Nagar booked for inciting violence on Sharda University campus where Afghan & Kashmiri students were allegedly beaten up.
In –35°C, the Indian soldier at LAC is 50% less efficient but 100% ready to fight China
As a Brigadier, I oversaw the conduct of an operation to capture a 17,000-feet high feature across the LAC in Chorbat La Sector in the first week of April 2001.
92 start-ups in just 1 year — how Andaman & Nicobar is on course to be a new ‘start-up hub’
From Diglipur to Campbell Bay, the islands’ administration reached out to all gram panchayats & conducted awareness campaigns in its quest to become a start-up hub.
Defence
These are the challenges Indian Army will face in Ladakh this winter, besides the Chinese
Temperatures have already dipped below minus-5 degrees Celsius in the upper reaches, and the Army is still procuring items for the thousands of troops deployed.
Partners dispensable in Modi-Shah construct if they do not bring additional votes
In the Modi-Shah construct, if partners do not bring additional votes, they are dispensable. However old or loyal, either they become supplicants, or die.