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Announcements from the Government Bodies
Department of School Education & Literacy Ministry of Education has issued guidelines for Social Audit of Samagra Shiksha Scheme.
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UGC has developed “Guidelines for Engaging Professor of Practice in Universities and Colleges” in order to enable HEIs to engage industry experts and professionals to share their wealth of knowledge they have gained in their career with students.
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UGC has invited suggestions/comments on “Guidelines for admission and supernumerary seats of international students in UG or PG programmes in HEIs in India.
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ln order to facilitate inclusive digital education for all including Persons with Disabilities, AICTE has formulated guidelines to be followed by AICTE Approved Institutions.
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NCERT, New Delhi, had invited Expression of Interest (EoI) from international consulting agencies for setting up and strengthening the capacity of the National Assessment Centre - Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development (PARAKH).
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People can take part in the Digital Survey for National Curriculum (DiSaNC) to contribute to the development of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF).
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To take forward the process of widespread consultation for the development of the new National Curriculum Framework (NCF) based on the National Education Policy, 2020, the Ministry of Education held a meeting with senior officials/representatives of all Ministries and Departments of Govt. of India and important bodies including NCERT, Election Commission of India, ICAR, DRDO, etc.
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The US National Science Foundation has expressed keenness to deepen and widen its collaborations with India in the education and skilling sectors and discussed mutual areas of interest and India’s plans for STEM studies under the National Education Policy 2020 with Union Minister of Education.
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India is open to "invite capital from everywhere" to provide quality education infrastructure that can educate and skill over 255 million youth in the 15-25 age group and improve the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) for higher education from 27% to 50% by 2030, Union Education & Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told ET Roundtable.
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The government has identified 29 institutes across ten states in seven regional languages – Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu for imparting engineering education in one or more disciplines.
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Foreseeing that the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 will enable to bring higher competency in pharmacy education, an academic policy expert with international pedagogical experience has wanted the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) to ponder over revising the existing curriculum for the degree course, B Pharm, in accordance with the new NEP.
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The University Grants Commission’s plan to merge the national engineering and medical entrance exams into the existing Common University Entrance Test (CUET) received mixed reactions from stakeholders.
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Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said that the new National Curriculum Framework for school and early childhood education is “not a revision” of the current curriculum, but an upgrade which would enable future generations to be global citizens of the 21st century.
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The ministry of education has started work on creating the ‘meta-accrediting body’, the National Accreditation Council (NAC), combining the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and National Board of Accreditation (NBA).
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The University Grants Commission (UGC) chairman Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar held a meeting with the Vice-Chancellors of all Central universities to discuss various issues related to higher education. In the meeting, all UGC bureau heads were present to answer queries from the VCs.
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By virtue of the National Education Policy-2020, the Ministry of Education New Delhi has entrusted IGNOU with the responsibility of orienting 15 lakh higher education teachers from universities and constituent colleges.
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To ensure a seamless integration of school, higher and vocational education, the central government plans to launch National Credit Framework (NCrF).
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The state government has put on hold all new applications by higher education institutions seeking to become private universities amid concerns over quality and administration.
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Karnataka higher education minister CN Ashwath Narayan has warned universities of strict action for failure to implement the Unified University and College Management System (UUCMS), a single-login interface for conducting the admission process in degree colleges.
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Karnataka School Education and Literacy Minister BC Nagesh has announced that the education department, in association with the women and child development department, will do the groundwork to form the state curriculum framework for implementing National Education Policy (NEP) in anganwadis.
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Divya Jain writes: Two years of NEP: The achievement so far
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Dr. Raghunathan Rangaswamy writes: Globalisation of Indian education in the post-pandemic age
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Prof. (Dr.) Sanjay Srivastava writes: Adhering to the NEP 2020: Revolutionizing the education system with the multi-disciplinary Approach
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Vinay Umarji writes: Indian higher education may find capital at home rather than in FDI
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Ashish Jhalani writes: Past, Present, and Future: India’s ECCE story. While education was allocated a Rs 11,000 crore budgeted expenditure in the recent Union Budget, a bulk of this has been chalked out for commitments other than ECCE.
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Dr Preeti Joshi writes: Liberal Arts Education is the need of the time. It is the National Education Policy 2020, which has offered a new age education platform which promotes education with Interdisciplinary Approach.
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Social Studies
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Studies (CESS) is a registered society
established in 2006. Since its
inception CESS has been working in the
field of education. CESS, guided by
its vision of bringing about ‘Social
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attention of stakeholders, including
State and Central Government, on vital
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