A new era of higher education reforms begins; Top colleges may stand on their own India took a significant stride in reforming its higher education after country’s national university education regulator the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued new regulations on granting academic and functional autonomy to top performing colleges in the country. A gazette notification (University Grants Commission (Conferment of …
NCPCR’s POSCO-EBox, an online complaint system for confidential registration of complaints regarding sexual offence against children finds mention even as WCD minister Maneka Gandhi suggests sensitization of young students about good and bad touch; inclusion of Dr. Ambedkar‟s Panch Teerth in curriculum suggested by Social Justice & empowerment minister Gehlot Youth affairs and Sports minister emphasizes importance of community service …
This year’s Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report released on October 24 in Paris by UNESCO, among several key recommendations has called upon the governments to design accountability for schools and teachers that is supportive and avoid punitive mechanisms, especially those based on narrow performance measures, allow for democratic participation, respect media freedom to scrutinize education and set up independent institutions …
The13th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2017, a Global Conference and Exhibition on education happening annually for the last several years opened to a thin attendance in Greater Noida, a satellite city of Delhi. The shifting of venue outside Delhi perhaps robbed the event of the presence of high profile ministerial and other VIPs in opening plenary even though organizers had …
A committee under a Supreme Court judge will soon start work to review the highly dissimilar fees pattern of medical education in the country. Concern has been voiced from several quarters over the high price of medical education and exuberant fees charged for these courses, which prevents many an aspirants from fulfilling their dream of becoming a doctor besides posing …
In a circular ‘necessitated’ by the gruesome murder of a seven year old, class II student of a private school (Ryan International School) in Gurgaon, the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE), with around 18000 schools affiliated to it across India, the board has asked schools to get the security /safety audit done of their premises and personnel from their …
