The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is going to set up a school for vocational education on its Deonar campus. TISS has taken this step towards a larger plan to set up a national vocational training university. The school will offer two-year-long certificate courses and students who pass out will qualify as technicians....
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Looking at the current scenario, it seems unlikely for the Union Human Resource Development ministry to pass the Foreign Education Providers Bill in near future, however, it seems, the MHRD ministry has no plans of giving up and advised UGC to implement AICTE-like rules for foreign university tie-ups. The Ministry of Human Resource and...
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Acting on demands from several State Governments, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has decided not to approve new engineering colleges from the academic year 2013-14. “Several State Governments had requested us not to clear the applications for starting new engineering colleges. They have cited the incidence of growing number of vacant...
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Moving ahead with its education reform agenda govt. has decided to implement measures even if its bills are all stuck in Parliament. In a move to address student grievances, Ministry of Human Resource Development(MHRD) has mandated appointment of an Ombudsman in all higher education institutions. It should be remembered that the Unfair Practices Bill...
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All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is sparing no efforts to make its common management admission test (CMAT) the default choice for students seeking admission to post graduate management courses. CMAT will be debuting this academic session and will be one of six national-level tests, such as common admission test (CAT) and the...
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In a significant decision, Maharashtra state technical education directorate has decided to discontinue the Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to the 2 year MBA/MMS programs in the state from 2013 academic session. Instead it has decided to use the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scores centrally conducted by the All India Council of...
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The recent decision of Union Cabinet to introduce a bill to set up National Commission of Higher Education and Research (NCHER), a supreme body to oversee and regulate higher education in universities and technical institutions in the country has been seen a catious welcome by academicians and industry-watchers NCHER as a super regulator will...
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Union cabinet approves NCHER The Union Cabinet has approved a bill to set up National Commission of Higher Education and Research (NCHER), a body to oversee and regulate higher education in universities and technical institutions in the country. The government first proposed setting up NCHER in two years back on the basis of a...
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The Union ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has conducted workshop for training faculty from south zone colleges for its ambitious All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) program. Around 80 teaching faculty from 50 colleges in the South Zone attended conducted at PES College, Bengaluru. The workshop was organised by the Directorate of...
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Private engineering colleges in Bengal can’t take their affiliation to the West Bengal University of Technology for granted. The state government may cancel the affiliation if any of these colleges lacks the minimum infrastructure or teaching faculty, or makes any gross departure from the promise they make to students about placements. From now, affiliation...
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