SC allows nursery admissions to resume in Delhi

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May 8, 2014

The Supreme Court has allowed resumption of nursery admissions in Delhi which were stalled over scrapping of inter-state transfer quota seats.

Avoiding the February 27 notification the apex court quashed the order issued by the Delhi lieutenant governor, to scrap the inter-state transfer quota and granted admission to successful transfer quota candidates whose parents had approached court.

The apex court also instructed that the wards of those parents who approached the court challenging scrapping of the inter-state transfer quota would be given a seat even if the schools had filled all seats. It has also asked Delhi government to raise the number of seats, if required to accommodate the 24 students whose parents had approached the court.

With the Supreme Court’s ruling, the five month long impasse on nursery admission in Delhi finally came to an end.

Lucknow University seeks NAAC reassessment

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May 8, 2014

Lucknow University was awarded ‘B’ grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). The university scored cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 69 percent.

Unhappy with the poor result, Lucknow University will now go for the reassessment, seeking improvement in the grade.

LU vice chancellor S B Nimse stated that they will appeal to NAAC for reassessment since they are short of just six percent to get an ‘A’ grade. The university will have to first make an appeal to NAAC following which they will get their score card. The university would then point out the specific areas where they have scored poor. Facts about the university will be verified and marked by NAAC, based on which they might again appoint a committee who will further check the record. Followed by this LU will make a detailed appeal.

During its visit to the university, NAAC raised serious objections on some of the issues like non-existent central placement facility for students. Recommendation on revision of course curriculum as per industry needs was also made. Tagor library which is a 75 year old library was also questioned over its non digitilisation. The team also asked the university to adopt virtues of semester system in PG which is more of a bi annual system.

World Bank to fund higher education in Odisha

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May 8, 2014

The World Bank is keen to help the higher education sector in Odisha for its improvement and development.

Kurt Larsen, the Bank representative stated that the World Bank wants to invest in the state for the improvement in teaching quality, learning and research process and improvement in gross enrolment ration (GER) in the state. The decision will be taken after a formal discussion between the World Bank officials and the Odisha government which is likely to take place in July.

The Odisha government has proposed to hold an international seminar on higher education policy in Bhubaneshwar in July, where World Bank officials are expected to participate.

For the development of higher education sector in various states in India, the World Bank has already financed one million dollar in the country

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One year mandatory rural posting for MBBS doctors from 2015-16		December 19, 2013
IIIT-Allahabad signs MoU with 6 foreign universities		December 12, 2013
Hero group launches new university; Decline in number of student visa applicants to UK		December 05, 2013
MHRD to Provide for 5000 Faculty Positions in Higher Education; Jaipuria To Open 50 More Schools in India		November 28, 2013
More Indian students take GRE as job prospects fall in homeland; Odisha government permits MBA and PhD courses in Xavier University		November 21, 2013
Mexus Announces iKen Scientifica 2013-14 competition for Students		November 14, 2013
No ban on mobile phones, dress code says AICTE; Karnataka Govt, NSDC to Implement NVEQF Across 100 Schools		November 07, 2013
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Jammu Univ Marksheets to Carry Photograph of Candidates; NITs Announce Hike in Tuition Fee		October 24, 2013
RUSA to Snatch UGC?s Funding Power; Deepak Mehrotra Joins Pearson as new MD		October 18, 2013
Apex Court ruling renders AICTE defunct		October 11, 2013
Top Indian universities ink MoUs with Belgian varsities		October 04, 2013
CBSE to open a centre in Dubai; New UGC rules for foreign collaboration		September 27, 2013
Govt of India and Japan Sign MoU to Launch Joint Research Initiatives		September 20, 2013
India ready to finally opens the gates for foreign varsities; Kerala to have Open e-school soon		September 13, 2013
Harvard Professor takes charge of IIM-A;NI CEO encourages students to ‘Do Engineering’		September 06, 2013
AICTE to fund technical institutes in northeast; CBSE to Conduct Teachers Training on Geospatial Technology		August 30, 2013
RUSA Proposes to Control Number of affiliated Colleges, GDA Announces App Design Competition for School Students		August 23, 2013
MHRD launches National Repository of Open Education Resources		August 16, 2013
UK institutions tie up with colleges in Tamil Nadu		August 09, 2013
Linc Academy To Empower Students Through E-Learning		August 02, 2013
India aims to achieve 80 percent literacy rate by 2015		July 19, 2013
Cabinet nod for setting up of first women’s varsity in UP		July 12, 2013
MHRD’s Rs 99,000 crore plan to up enrolment, research in higher edu		July 05, 2013
UGC bats for more fellowships, reservations; Times of India group forays into education sector		June 28, 2013
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Indo-US to further ties in Knowledge Sector		May 24, 2013
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Govt to set up National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) UGC mandates affiliated colleges to set-up grievance redressal mechanism for students		May 10, 2013
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Innovation for the human safety

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May 5, 2014

The students of Manav Rachna College of Engineering bagged the first, second and third position at the national round of Microsoft Imagine Cup. The students won in the innovation category. They created products like smart skull which is an automatic system to alert the relatives of the accident victim and emergency services. Smart skull sends out signals to emergency centres.

Another project which bagged the award was MovAid, which according to the team is the world’s first personalized solution to measure and monitor the recovery of an individual after orthopedic trauma rehabilitation, surgery, injury or joint replacement. Project Respiron has a device and smartphone application for an out of range alarm, medication reminder, puff control and panic button.The puff counter in the app gives and automatic update on the number of puffs left in the medicine cartridge and also gives an alert to the user over the need of replacement.

Manav Rachna Educational Institutions (MREI) is now teaming up with the industries and also with other institutions to orient the curricula to the market.It now offers BTech in telecom informatics in association with IBM and BTech in computer science and engineering with specialisation in cloud computing.

Embedding training programme in NCWEB

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May 5, 2014

Though the University of Delhi (DU) has shifted to the four year undergraduate programme (FYUP), its Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board (NCWEB) will continue with the three year degree. But the board will be introducing training and internship programme in the existing degree.

Anju Gupta, director, NCWEB, stated that they have no plans to change three year annual mode to the four year undergraduate programme this year. But in the current year, the students who will enroll in the institute can look forward to training and internship programmes, which will be conducted for the first time.

The board will collaborate with Delhi University Community Radio to give students technical training for four weeks. The training will include computer skills, MS Office etc. The purpose is to give students technical training and hands on experience which is essential today.

NCWEB caters to female students in Delhi and runs BA and BCom programmes through 13 DU colleges. It has about 14,000 seats. It also gives financial aid to 700 students and book bank facilities to 500 students.

Introducing Bachelor in Music in Mumbai University

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May 5, 2014

The University of Mumbai has come up to offer three years bachelor degree in music (B Mus), to train students to become all round musicians.

The course requires students to pass seven theory and six practical papers. There will be three specialization papers on Hindustani classical vocal music, Hindustani classical instrumental- percussion (table), and Hindustani classical instrumental – non-percussion (sitar). The enrollee has to choose any one of the three specializations offered.

Students will have to appear three theory papers and two practical papers as well as work on two units of continual internal assessment projects in the first year. In the second and third year students have to take three theory and three practical papers in addition to two units continual internal assessments.

The main aim of the course is to equip students with knowledge in subjects like basic principles of music, communication skills, history of music, applied theory of music etc. At the completion of every semester, students have to manage a concert performance and pass a viva voce.

Jamia Milia Islamia University gets geologist Ahmad as new vice-chancellor

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May 1, 2014

Jamia Milia Islamia University gets a new vice chancellor. Noted geologist Talat Ahmad takes over the charge as stated by an official statement on 30 April.

The statement also says that the president of India in his capacity as the visitor of the university has appointed Prof. Talat Ahmad as the VC of the University.

He is currently the vice chancellor of University of Kashmir and will replace Najeeb Jung who quit his post after he was appointed Delhi’s Lt governor.

Ahmad is an earth scientist and has served at the Department of Geology of the University of Delhi from 2003-2011.

IIT-Guwahati among top 100 young varsities

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May 1, 2014

The IIT Guwahati is the only Indian entry which has made it to the top 100 list of world’s dynamic young varsities.

The Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 universities ranking which will be announced on May 1. The evaluation of the world’s top 100 universities under 50 puts India’s lone entry IIT Guwahati at 87^th position.

The ranking oversee the future by examining a new breed of global universities that have managed to join the world’s elite in a matter of decades rather than centuries, with the potential to become the next generation’s Harvard or Oxford.

India which was the only BRIC nation which did not had a single university in the world top 100 table, recently has come in the Times Higher Education rankings. While mainland China had two, both in the top 50 and Russia and Brazil had one each. It is the first time that India joined the top 100 Under 50.

The 100 Under 50 is designed to be dynamic and forward looking to give a platform to the universities founded in 1964 or later.

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