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Chennai The number of applications, from south India, to study in the United Kingdom, has had a 9% jump last year compared to previous years, a top British envoy said here today. The number of applications from south India which were “flat two years ago,” grew by 9% last...
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September 19, 2017 Loknath Das
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Madhya Pradesh Medical Science University has cancelled the admission of 44 students into a postgraduate course in various dental colleges of the state. MP Medical Science University vice chancellor RS Sharma said apart from apprising the matter to the Dental Council of India, the university has also written...
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September 18, 2017 Loknath Das
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The Panjab University (PU) cannot participate in world class universities competition due to its status of inter-state body corporate. The nominations for the status were invited by central government through university grants commission UGC on September 13. The government on the basis of certain parameters will identify the...
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September 16, 2017 Loknath Das
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The Times Higher Education (THE) rankings, 2018, of the world’s top 1,000 universities in 77 countries, published today, had plain bad news for India. Most of the country’s universities were knocked down from their previous positions with star performer Indian Institute of Science (IISc) slipping from the 201-250...
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September 7, 2017 Loknath Das
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It took Susanna 10 years before she was promoted to senior teaching fellow, and she says she was one of the lucky ones. Many new teaching-only contracts awarded in her department at a leading research university are “non progressable” – there is no expectation that teaching staff will...
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August 23, 2017 Loknath Das
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New Delhi With less than a month to go for student union elections in the Delhi University, the entire north campus — from walls to roads, from advertising spaces at bus shelters to market places – is covered with posters, pamphlets and scribbles, mostly from candidates inviting students to...
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August 18, 2017 Loknath Das
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