After the Supreme Court recently cancelled all the technical education degrees obtained through distance learning between 2001 and 2005, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has barred as many as 123 deemed education institutes from using the ‘university’ tag in their name. In a directive, UGC said, “The institutions...
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November 29, 2017 Loknath Das
Distance Learning
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The University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked all central universities to recover non-productivity linked bonus for the past two financial years if paid to employees. It has also asked them to make any bonus-related payment, if not already paid, as the central government is yet to take a...
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October 26, 2017 Loknath Das
Universities
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The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has asked technical institutes that denied admission to students from Jammu and Kashmir under the Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) across the country to ensure they accept eligible candidates or be ready to face action. Under the scheme, the...
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September 8, 2017 Loknath Das
Scholarship
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The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra government to clear its stand over shifting of Matoshree Kashiben Vrajlal Valia International School at Borivli (West). The secondary division of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) school has remained shut since August 25. The division bench of...
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September 7, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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Nagaland Governor P B Acharya on Wednesday called upon educational institutions to emphasise on skill development education and not mere conventional academic education. Academic knowledge is required but in the present competitive world skill development and education have to go side by side in order to build up...
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August 9, 2017 Loknath Das
Institutes
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Bhubaneswar: BJD vice-president and Minister Damodar Rout on Saturday dared Kendrapara MP Baijayant Panda to name the corrupt IAS officers, a day after Panda said that some corrupt Bureaucrats also exist in Odisha. “I would like to thank the parliamentarian for his take on corrupt people. But he...
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May 28, 2017 Loknath Das
IAS - PCS
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