UGC Wednesday asked institutions to make courses available via govt platform SWAYAM. Academics question move, citing issues like need for classroom instruction & lack of infrastructure.
Mandate document for new National Curriculum Framework, being devised as part of NEP, gives focus groups instructions on drafting new curriculum road map for schools.
UGC guidelines, titled ‘Transforming higher education institutes into multidisciplinary institutions’, were put up on regulator's website last month, open to public feedback until 20 March.
Conor Fahy of govt agency Enterprise Ireland says such collaboration can ‘deepen FDI’. DU V-C Yogesh Singh says MoU with Irish varsities likely by end of 2022.
Networks of agents across cities and villages profit from aspirations and fears of medical aspirants. But with odds stacked against students in India, they represent hope to many.
In Pakistan, substandard universities and vacuous ‘research’ publications have exploded in numbers. Like metastasized cancers they call for painful treatment.
DU had last month constituted a panel to study admission data and see if there are any discrepancies in the admission process, and if they need to be corrected.
DU faced flak in August for removing stories by Dalit writers. However, its English Department says the course has changed over the years to become more inclusive.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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