A centre established by Somerville College in the University of Oxford in 2013 with a £3 million grant from India and named after Indira Gandhi has reported the name of the former prime minister dropped after the BJP government came to power in 2014. The Oxford India centre was named[Read More…]
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Telangana to soon have university exclusively for Dalits
Telangana government is actively considering a proposal to set-up an exclusive university for the Dalit students. A Hindustan Times report stated that the proposed University will be part of the government’s policy of providing education free of cost to students from weaker sections from kindergarten to post-graduation (KG to PG)[Read More…]
Tariq Mansoor named as a new AMU Vice-Chancellor
Tariq Mansoor has been chosen as Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) vice-chancellor by President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday. The 60-year-old Mansoor, principal of AMU’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, will succeed Lt Gen (retd) Zameeruddin Shah, who will retire on May 17. Mansoor has been associated with the university for 35 years[Read More…]
Exam postponed as university forgets to print question papers in Bihar
About 94 students of the Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University (TMBU) of Bihar could not write their last paper of the second semester postgraduate Hindi exam, as the question papers were not printed by the university. Post the incident, the vice chancellor served a show cause notice to the controller of[Read More…]
UP govt bans strikes in Universities, colleges under ESMA
Uttar Pradesh government on Monday banned any kind of strike by employees in state universities and colleges till June 30 under the stringent Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA). Under the Act, Police can arrest anybody without warrant, if he/ she violate the regulations. Any person taking part in a strike[Read More…]
Freedom of Universities challenged by narrow considerations: Vice Prez
Vice President M Hamid Ansari said on Saturday that the freedom of our Universities has been challenged by narrow considerations and there is a need to defend them as free spaces. “In a period of rampant distrust of matters intellectual there is an imperative need to defend the universities as[Read More…]
Jamia Milia Islamia to have a student council in 11 years
Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University plans to have a election for a Jamia Student Council (JSC) in 2017. It is to be noted that this university has not held student union elections since 2006 over claims by the authority that student representatives had started interfering in administrative work. As per[Read More…]
ABVP agitate over ex-BHU professor’s remarks
Police removed badges before beating students at Ramjas protest
Two constables and a head constable have been suspended after students and journalists were allegedly beaten up by the Delhi police in the Delhi University’s north campus. Investigation into why violence broke out on campus has been transferred to the Crime Branch after repeated ruckus. Surprisingly, during the initial spark[Read More…]
Committee set to frame guidelines for colleges in Maharashtra
A committee of eight members has been set by the state government to frame a ‘clear and detailed’ guideline for the approval of new colleges, courses and other divisions of Higher and Technical Education. Old norms will be revised intricately before implementing new frameworks. The committee headed by Dr RS[Read More…]
Outstation students may need a local guardian to take admission in varsities
Students coming to study at a university from far-off places may soon need to register a local guardian with the institute as part of their admission process. Human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar has supported the need to have a local guardian for outstation students. Javadekar said the move is[Read More…]
Varsity students in Bengaluru on hunger strike, allege wrongly failed
At least 100 students of Visvesvaraya Technical University (VTU) sat on a hunger strike on Saturday alleging a cock-up in the checking of their papers by the examiners, resulting in an unusual number of students failing. The students demanded that those failed be advanced to the next year since there[Read More…]
5 mistakes Indian students make while choosing a University abroad
More than ever before, Indians are going abroad for higher studies. To take just one indicator, while the number of international students taking the GRE exam grew 11% in 2014-15, that rate for Indians was 20%. Incomes are rising, and so are young people’s aspirations. And with so many students[Read More…]
President Mukherjee promotes freedom of expression in varsities
Pushing for freedom of expression, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said universities and institutions of higher learning must be bastions of free speech and debates should be encouraged. At the first convocation of Nalanda University, he said the varsity reflects an idea, a culture which flourished for 1,200 years before[Read More…]