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Internet giant and search engine Google will give approximately Rs 65 lakh to Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University for research work. AKTU vice-chancellor Vinay Pathak said it is the first university to get such financial assistance from Google. “It will help us in strengthening research work in...
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December 9, 2017 Loknath Das
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Educators and students often struggle to learn from each other through the use of feedback. Our research into feedback practices has found that students and staff find feedback practices largely unsustainable, de-motivating and without opportunity for improvement. Researchers generally describe current feedback practices as lacking in detail, difficult to...
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November 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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Scandals aren’t meant to happen in British universities. Parliament, tabloid newsrooms, the City … those we expect to spew out sleaze. Not the gown-wearing, exam-sitting, quiet-in-the-library surrounds of higher education. Yet we should all be scandalised by what is happening in academia. It is a tale of vast...
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November 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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Days after the Supreme Court cancelled engineering degrees granted since 2001 by three deemed universities through the distance education mode, the Union HRD ministry has called a meeting of the University Grants Commission (UGC) on Monday to protect the interests of hundreds who could be affected by the move, people...
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November 6, 2017 Loknath Das
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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou) on Monday announced admissions to its master of business administration programme in banking and finance through the open and distance learning (ODL) mode for the session that will begin in January 2018. The university said the application form can be downloaded...
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November 2, 2017 Loknath Das
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Students of the Punjabi department at Panjab University, Chandigarh, have started a drive to “save the status of the language” as the administration has not been using it on signboards while English and Hindi are used. Mehtab, a student of the Punjabi department at PU, is one of...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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