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Ireland’s top universities are climbing back up international rankings following a decade of cutbacks which meant many of them tumbled down influential league tables, new figures show. However, the country’s largest university UCD has warned that third level education remains under severe financial strain. “Unless there is movement...
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June 8, 2017 Loknath Das
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Central varsities such as Delhi University will soon be able to launch new departments, programmes, schools and centres without the approval of the University Grants Commission (UGC), albeit in self-financing mode. This facility will be extended to some state universities too. The UGC has also proposed new rules...
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June 3, 2017 Loknath Das
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Mumbai University UG Admission 2017: Online Application Begins Today NEW DELHI: Mumbai University has begun the online application process for UG admission for the academic session 2017-18 today. The sale of offline application forms began yesterday. Students, especially outstation students, willing to apply to Mumbai University should cease...
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June 2, 2017 Loknath Das
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History students at the University of Oxford are to sit a new exam paper focusing on black, Asian and ethnic minority history, following long-held complaints about an overly “white” curriculum. From the next academic term, all Oxford history undergraduate students will take the compulsory paper, which features black,...
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May 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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Hong Kong will act as a ‘super connector’ to the Chinese mainland and Asian region through deeper international collaborations that include universities, Hong Kong’s Secretary for Education Eddie Ng told the Going Global conference in London last week, which had “Global cities: connecting talent, driving change” as its...
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May 27, 2017 Loknath Das
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The University of Birmingham’s plan to open a campus in Dubai is the latest example of universities expanding with international branches. Vice-chancellor Sir David Eastwood said the campus in the Gulf would show the university’s “global mission”. The first phase of Birmingham’s new outpost in the United Arab...
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May 26, 2017 Loknath Das
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