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Announcements from the Govt. Bodies

A new Education India Portal (educationindia.gov.in) has been developed by Ministry of Education as an initiative to showcase the strengths of Indian institutions to international students and to make available to them all the information about Indian HEls in one place. Read more

UGC tells higher educational institutions to award degrees within 180 days of the date/s by which the students are expected to qualify and become eligible. Read more

UGC has requested all the Vice Chancellors of Universities, Directors of IIT’s and Principals of all colleges to send proposals for the development of MOOCs at UG/PG level for the for the SWAYAM Platform, on the six pillars of India’s Arctic Policy. Read more

UGC has framed guidelines for pursuing two academic programmes simultaneously to facilitate multiple pathways to learning involving both formal and non-formal education modes, as envisaged in NEP 2020. Read more

Recognizing the importance of best practices in higher educations and with a view to take such practices to all the institutions across the country, UGC is organizing a year-long lecture series to be delivered by a head of one of the premier institutions in the country. Read more

National News

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Friday constituted AVGC task force, which will recommend a national curriculum framework for graduate, postgraduate and doctoral courses. Read more

The University of Melbourne is looking to build strategic links with Indian universities as well as technology companies. Read more

UGC forms panel to set rules for India campuses of foreign universities, the first step in preparing the ground for opening up the higher education sector to foreign universities, a key proposal in the National Educational Policy (NEP) to “internationalise” the higher education sector. Read more

Union Education Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan has released the ‘Mandate Document: Guidelines for the Development of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF)’ at a function held at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru on 29th April, 2022. Read more

Karnataka News

Karnataka government is eager to partner with Thailand in the areas of education, Information Technology (IT) and Bio-Technology. Read more

The Karnataka High Court stayed the government order making Kannada compulsory as a subject in higher education from the academic year 2021-2022 as part of implementing the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Read more

Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister B C Nagesh said Bhagavad Gita would be included in the textbooks to lay stress on moral education in the schools from the current academic year. Read more

Articles/ Editorials

Govind Mohan writes: India’s connection to zero is known, but its contributions in many other fields are not celebrated. Read more

Ameeta Mulla Wattal writes: Many families have found themselves unable to support their children’s education. Good quality and more government-supported schools could be the answer Read more

Anamika writes: The impact of the Common University Entrance Test is likely to be harsher on disadvantaged sections of the society for whom access to higher education is seen as the only route to upward mobility. Read more

Sumit Paul writes: The deplorable state of language study in India. Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu, even English – languages have become tools for scoring marks or communal brownie points. Read more

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