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Representative Image The colleges granted autonomy will also be free to set their own syllabus, hold examinations, carry out evaluation as well as declare results. In this case, only the degree will be awarded by the respective university. The minister also said that a show-cause notice will be...
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March 21, 2018 Loknath Das
Distance Learning
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The ancient discipline of Vedic mathematics is being promoted at schools and universities in Haryana like never before. The BJP government in the state had asked the Haryana Board of School Education in 2016 to explore steps to promote the subject after SK Kapoor, a retired judge from...
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January 9, 2018 Loknath Das
Schools
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The Supreme court had asked the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to hold tests for students whose degrees will be suspended by January 15, 2018. The engineering degrees of four deemed varsities which offer the course through the long-distance mode have been suspended. The University Grants Commission...
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November 29, 2017 Loknath Das
Distance Learning
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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
Universities
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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
Universities
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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
Universities
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