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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicHigher education

Topic: higher education

Students can now study engineering and economics together as UGC approves dual degrees

The UGC has approved simultaneous dual degrees for students but one has to be through the regular mode and the other has to be through online distance learning. 

Zoom, Google Meet classes ‘next to impossible’ as J&K students struggle with 2G speed

Teachers and students in the Valley complain that it takes hours for them to upload and download files due to the poor internet speeds. 

H1B row: Will Covid, recession dampen Indian students’ desire to study and work abroad?

Due to Covid-19 crisis and global recession, over 20-25 per cent of H1B employees in the US could be laid off in the coming weeks and forced to return to India.

New academic calendar, vacations, how to conduct college exams — latest task for Modi govt

Govt has formed seven-member panel to work on a contingency plan for higher education sector disrupted by Covid-19 pandemic. Announcement expected after 14 April. 

Jamia suspends professor for tweeting he ‘failed non-Muslims’, he says it was sarcasm

In clarification, assistant professor Abrar Ahmad says tweet, in which he claimed he failed 15 non-Muslim students, was just to ‘explain how minorities are treated under CAA’. 

JNU situation could have been avoided if admin spoke to students on time: Former V-C Sopory

Former JNU Vice-Chancellor S.K. Sopory says the university administration should speak to all students irrespective of their political affiliations.

Introduce on-demand exams at undergraduate level, UGC panel tells Modi govt

The panel on evaluation reforms has suggested that exams should take place ‘when the learners consider themselves ready to appear’.  

Youth protests against CAA, NRC has potential to change politics. But 2 key things missing

The pan-India student protests are not just about the CAA or the NRC. It is about a problem with the business of settling past scores.

Kerala is best performing state for education of girls, Uttar Pradesh the worst

According to Modi govt data, Kerala has age specific attendance ratio of 60% for girls at the pre-primary level and 99.5% at the level of class 11 and 12.

UGC to launch 10 women-centric academic chairs, Subbulakshmi & Ahilyabai Holkar on list

UGC wants to launch the chairs across universities in association with Ministry of Women and Child Development, which will provide financial support.

On Camera

What Trump-Harris result could mean for India in key areas, from geopolitics to trade & immigration

India cannot be blasé about change in any important capital in the world. Let's look at six key areas where US policy matters for India and how it may vary between Harris and Trump.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Rifles slung upside down, on ponies. Indian troops go on their 1st patrol in Depsang since 2020

Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.