The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has asked all institutes across the country to upload accreditation details of their courses on their websites. According to a senior AICTE official, a number of institutes hide their details if their courses have National Board of Accreditation’s clearance, which...
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October 30, 2017 Loknath Das
Institutes
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The admit card or call letter for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2017, to be held on November 26, has been released. Candidates can download their admit cards from the official websiteof CAT 2017, a computer-based admission test for entrance to postgraduate management programmes (PGP) at the Indian Institutes...
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October 30, 2017 Loknath Das
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The ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) will rank its over 1,000 Kendriya Vidyalayas (KV), a first of its kind initiative by the government, with an aim at improving the institutes through holding a competition among them, sources said. The outcome of the initiative, the process of which...
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October 30, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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“Schools are segregated because white people want them that way. … We won’t fix this problem until we really wrestle with that fact.” That’s what Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine writer and recipient of a prestigious “genius grant,” told me in a recent interview. “Genius grant” is...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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Thousands of learners from several schools in Cape Town have marched to Parliament demanding greater safety at schools. The march follows incidents of gang-related shootings and clashes on the Cape Flats in recent weeks. Learners, members of Equal Education and teacher unions Sadtu and Neptosa took part in the protest....
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece for Salon about Michael Moore where I recounted the story of how he became the youngest elected public official in U.S. history. At 18, Moore decided to run for head of his Michigan community school board on the simple platform that he...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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