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Lottery race for RTE seats

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A draw was conducted for admissions to Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad schools for the 25% seats reserved in schools under the Right to Education (RTE) act. The applicants will receive an SMS about the schools allotted...

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“HRD ministry dwarfing UGC”

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Blaming the HRD ministry for “dwarfing the University Grants Commission (UGC) and crippling its role in regulation of higher educational institutions”, senior UGC member M M Ansari has said the regulator suffers from ‘internal inefficiency’. Although...

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UGC can’t be easily junked: Education secretary

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After the controversy raised by a panel set up by HRD minister Smriti Z Irani to review the working of the University Grants Commission (UGC), which said that UGC is a failure and therefore must be...

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Panel to probe CET goof-up

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Taking serious note of the gaffe with the Common Entrance Test (CET) question paper for postgraduate students in Maharashtra, the medical education department has decided to set up a panel to probe into the matter. A...

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IIT-K proposes entrepreneurship park in Lucknow

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Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) has conceptualized an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park (IEP) in Lucknow and has asked the UP government for 20 acres of land. The IEP will help unskilled workers get a technical education....

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DU introduces environment studies as a compulsory course

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Delhi University (DU) has introduced a compulsory course in Environmental Studies for its undergraduate students. The course was mandated by UGC. The course is being introduced in the current academic session, and studens can take it...

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1000 US academics to teach in Indian Universities

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In an attempt to enhance the quality of education, the Modi government has decided to rope in various American academicians to teach in different Indian universities across the nation. Earlier, it was made mandatory for CSIR...