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Chennai The number of applications, from south India, to study in the United Kingdom, has had a 9% jump last year compared to previous years, a top British envoy said here today. The number of applications from south India which were “flat two years ago,” grew by 9% last...
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September 19, 2017 Loknath Das
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The Panjab University (PU) cannot participate in world class universities competition due to its status of inter-state body corporate. The nominations for the status were invited by central government through university grants commission UGC on September 13. The government on the basis of certain parameters will identify the...
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September 16, 2017 Loknath Das
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It took Susanna 10 years before she was promoted to senior teaching fellow, and she says she was one of the lucky ones. Many new teaching-only contracts awarded in her department at a leading research university are “non progressable” – there is no expectation that teaching staff will...
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August 23, 2017 Loknath Das
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wo of Britain’s leading universities have fallen well below their benchmark for student satisfaction, according to the National Student Survey (NSS). The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Edinburgh University both scored significantly less than the sector average for satisfaction. Some 84 per cent of...
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August 9, 2017 Loknath Das
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A photo campaign launched on Saturday by the group End Rape on Campus (EROC) shows women holding up placards demanding their universities take stronger action against sexual assault on campuses and provide better support for victims. EROC ambassador Nina Funnell said they launched the campaign to put a...
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July 29, 2017 Loknath Das
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The state higher education department has drawn up a detailed plan for introducing reforms in higher education institutes to make colleges future-ready. Called “Vision Goals 2022”, the plan document states that plans are there to set up two new state universities, 32 new degree colleges, 14 new girls’...
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July 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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