Tag: higher education

  New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has officially opened the registration process for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee School of Management and Entrepreneurship (ABVSME). Candidates who have successfully passed the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2023 are eligible to apply for JNU MBA Admission 2024. Interested candidates can fill out the JNU MBA 2024 registration form on the official website, jnuee.jnu.ac.in. The last date to apply for admission to the MBA course at JNU is June 15. Eligibility Criteria for JNU MBA 2024 As per the eligibility criteria for JNU MBA 2024, candidates ... Read more

Dharmendra Pradhan has been appointed as the Minister of Education once more.   Dharmendra Pradhan has been appointed as the Minister of Education –Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assigned portfolios to his council of ministers, with Dharmendra Pradhan continuing as the head of the Ministry of Education. The Modi 3.0 administration’s Union Council of Ministers includes 72 members, with 30 holding cabinet positions and five serving as ministers of state with independent charge. The ministers took their oath of office on Sunday, June 9, administered by President Droupadi Murmu. Dharmendra Pradhan’s Continued Leadership Dharmendra Pradhan has been a pivotal member ... Read more

he suggests that the state should use legal and legislative means to make higher secondary examination marks the sole criteria for admission to first-year medical programs.   CHENNAI: Retired judge of the Madras High Court, Justice A.K. Rajan, has recommended that the Tamil Nadu government take immediate steps to eliminate the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for medical admissions. He suggests that the state should use legal and legislative means to make higher secondary examination marks the sole criteria for admission to first-year medical programs. Background and Formation of the Committee The recommendation comes from a high-level committee led by Justice ... Read more

NEW DELHI: Madhav Sharan was no different from other students from his age till August 2021. What made him different was a life changing and deplorable event after his CBSE Class 10 Board exam that year. This student from Amity International School in Pushp Vihar, Delhi, experienced a brain haemorrhage in August 2021, a devastating health condition, seldom experienced by youngsters of his age.It left him in a coma for ten days. Braving the life-threatening brain haemorrhage caused by an AVM (Arteriovenous Malformation), Madhav achieved a commendable 93% in the CBSE Class 12th Board exams, the result of which was ... Read more

‘एक करोड़ रुपये से हम क्या-क्या नहीं कर सकते’ दरअसल, माइक्रोब्लॉगिंग साइट एक्स पर अक्षत श्रीवास्तव नाम के यूजर ने चुटकी लेते हुए पोस्ट किया कि, मुंबई, दिल्ली या गुरुग्राम में एक अच्छा घर खरीदने के लिए 1 करोड़ रुपये पर्याप्त नहीं हैं. श्रीवास्तव ने यह भी कहा कि, यह रकम माता-पिता के लिए अपने बच्चों को अच्छे एमबीए प्रोग्राम के लिए विदेश भेजने के लिए भी पर्याप्त नहीं है और न ही नई दिल्ली जैसे शहरों में इंटरनेशनल स्कूलों के लिए ही काफी हैं. ‘ज्यादा पैसे की छपाई और कर्ज से परचेजिंग पावर खत्म कर दिया’ उन्होंने एक्स पर ... Read more

Prof. K. K. Aggarwal, President of the South Asian University, discusses the evolving landscape of higher education. Highlighting the significance of the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 20), he emphasizes the need for higher education to extend beyond traditional certificates and degrees. NEP 20 prioritizes quality, flexibility, problem-solving abilities, and holistic education. Prof. Aggarwal underscores the role of teachers in fostering these attributes and aims to integrate them into educational systems through collaborative efforts across SAARC countries.

GUWAHATI: Assam’s government, under Education Minister Ranoj Pegu’s guidance, considers halting college teacher recruitment and merging departments with low student enrollment. This initiative aligns with the policy of school amalgamation due to minimal student enrollment, aiming to optimize higher education institutions..In a post on X, Pegu said the Higher Education Department conducted a meeting with the principals and the governing body presidents of 79 colleges having less than 500 enrolments on Saturday evening.“…discussed possible roadmap to enhance enrolment… Enhancing gross enrolment ratio (GER) in higher education is a priority of the government,” he said.Accordingly, the minister has directed the higher ... Read more

When attacks on Indian students in America have risen in the recent past and the UK’s economy is still struggling to recover from the mild recession it was reeling under — it is perhaps the time for Indian students to reassess the conventional study destinations of America, UK and Canada. Overall, there are 13.2 lakh Indian students currently studying abroad out of which 4.6 lakh are in the USA and 1.83 lakh students in Canada, World Bank blog data shows. Popular study destinations for Indian students: Germany There are a total of 423 higher education institutions in Germany, including 108 universities, 211 universities ... Read more

Universities have boomed in recent decades. Higher-education institutions across the world now employ on the order of 15m researchers, up from 4m in 1980. These workers produce five times the number of papers each year. Governments have ramped up spending on the sector. The justification for this rapid expansion has, in part, followed sound economic principles. Universities are supposed to produce intellectual and scientific breakthroughs that can be employed by businesses, the government and regular folk. Such ideas are placed in the public domain, available to all. In theory, therefore, universities should be an excellent source of productivity growth. In ... Read more

GUWAHATI: Raising concerns over Assam’s gross enrollment ratio, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated on Tuesday that it does not align with the investments made in the higher education system.Speaking on Tuesday, Sarma said that the state is stuck between the 17-18 per cent range in the gross enrolment ratio in higher education.“Gross enrolment in the state is stuck between the 17 and 18 per cent range despite massive investments in the higher education system in the past decade or so,” Assam CM said.He stressed the need for a holistic approach so that the state can attain a more desirable ... Read more