Shiv Nadar University Chennai, on Mar 3 announced the appointment of Prof. Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya as the University’s Founding Vice Chancellor. Prof. Bhattacharyya is a widely acclaimed academician and was previously the Director (officiating) at IIT Kharagpur. In a career spanning over three decades, Prof. Bhattacharyya has demonstrated outstanding scholarship in his field, rigor for academic excellence and support for …

Funded by DST, the gel is expected to be ready in nine months Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering (DBB), IIT Bombay is working on project for capturing and inactivation of novel corona virus, the causative agent of COVID-19 through a nasal gel. Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), a statutory body of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), is …

6 Cs: – Collaboration- Communication- Creativity- Cultural Competencies- Critical Thinking – Complex Problem Solving besides digital fluency, will be the defining skills– the new superlative skills The Innovation Superclusters Initiative of Canada introduced in 2017 to create Canada’s most promising five superclusters at scale to create jobs, boost export economy and increase Canada’s GDP by more than $ 50 billion …

The President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind addressing at the 15th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2019, in New Delhi on November 27, 2019. As a Visitor to 152 Universities and Institutes of Higher Learning, President of India routinely interacts with HEI leaders and therefore is a significant authority on issues of higher education. While inaugurating the 15th Higher Education Summit 2019 …

Coursera for Campus launch event in Delhi was attended by Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO (extrem left) along with a few university partners and Coursera India team members Coursera, the leading online learning platform, on Oct 3 announced Coursera for Campus — a new offering designed to help universities around the world respond to the unprecedented challenges posed by the Fourth Industrial …

On June 22, the union ministry of human resource development (HRD) announced that UGC has brought in new set of regulations to supersede the ‘Promotion and Maintenance of Standards of Academic Collaborations between Indian and Foreign Educational Institutes Regulations 2012’, the only rudimentary legal framework in the country that governs working of Foreign Educational Institutions (FEIs) in India. Under the …