NIRF 2025 rankings on September 4

NIRF 2025 rankings on September 4

The Ministry of Education on September 4 will announce the annual National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025. NIRF India Rankings lists top universities and colleges in India. The NIRF India Ranking 2025 will be announced for 15 categories — overall, universities, colleges, research institutions, engineering, management, pharmacy, medical, dental, law, architecture and planning, agriculture and […]

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Bill on establishing a new IIM in Guwahati introduced in Lok Sabha

Bill on establishing a new IIM in Guwahati introduced in Lok Sabha

A bill to include the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Guwahati in the schedule of the Indian Institutes of Management Act to make it an institution of national importance was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday. Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan introduced the bill amid din created by the opposition over the issue of Special […]

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4,000 institutions under One Nation One Subscription scheme haven’t received benefits: Par panel

4,000 institutions under One Nation One Subscription scheme haven’t received benefits: Par panel

Around 4,000 out of 7,008 eligible institutions under the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) scheme of the Ministry of Education have not received its benefits, a parliamentary panel has flagged. The Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, headed by Congress MP Digvijaya Singh, directed the furnishing of updated information on the current […]

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‘A short-sighted approach’: Parliamentary panel recommends BElEd programme’s continuation

‘A short-sighted approach’: Parliamentary panel recommends BElEd programme’s continuation

A parliamentary panel has recommended the continuation of the Bachelor of Elementary Education (BElEd) programme, a four-year course in elementary teacher education, which the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has proposed to scrap. Discontinuation of the programme based on factors like the number of institutions or structural alignment is a “short-sighted approach that risks […]

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Student suicides 7.6% of all suicide cases across India: Minister

Student suicides 7.6% of all suicide cases across India: Minister

Student suicides made up 7.6 per cent of all suicide cases reported across India in 2022, showing a slight dip from 8.0 per cent in 2021 and 8.2 per cent in 2020, according to official data shared in Lok Sabha. Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar shared the data from the Accidental Deaths […]

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Govt panel to examine reliance of students on coaching, fairness of entrance exams

Govt panel to examine reliance of students on coaching, fairness of entrance exams

The Ministry of Education has set up a nine-member panel to examine issues relating to coaching, emergence of ‘dummy schools’ as well as the effectiveness and fairness of entrance examinations, according to officials. The panel headed by Higher Education Secretary Vineet Joshi will suggest measures to reduce the dependency of students on coaching centres for […]

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Finding Indian language equivalents for selfie, drones…

Finding Indian language equivalents for selfie, drones…

 People across India can log onto the ‘Shabd Shala’ website and provide suggestions for possible translations of these words or their most prevalent usages in their respective languages.  File image for representation. | Photo Credit: AP ‘Selfie’, ‘drones’, ‘metaverse’, and ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are among the new, “technical” English words that become a part of Indian psyche […]

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Education Ministry launches PM Modi’s young authors mentoring scheme YUVA 2.0 

Education Ministry launches PM Modi’s young authors mentoring scheme YUVA 2.0 

The Ministry of Education on Sunday launched YUVA 2.0 – Prime Minister’s Scheme for Mentoring Young Authors, a programme to train young and budding authors to promote reading, writing and book culture in the country, and project India and Indian writings globally. “YUVA 2.0 is a part of India@75 Project (Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav) to […]

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NEP 2020 two years celebration LIVE Updates: PM Modi to inaugrate new initiatives under Education ministry

NEP 2020 two years celebration LIVE Updates: PM Modi to inaugrate new initiatives under Education ministry

NEP 2020: As the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 completes two years today, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will launch a slew of initiatives in the education and skill sectors at an event in New Delhi at 4 pm. From the introduction of a four-year multidisciplinary undergraduate programme with […]

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NIRF: IITs sweep rankings, IISc tops universities, Delhi colleges shine

NIRF: IITs sweep rankings, IISc tops universities, Delhi colleges shine

LED BY IIT-Madras, the Indian Institutes of Technology continue to dominate the country’s higher education landscape, according to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2022 released Friday. Be it engineering education, management or research, the premier institutes figured prominently across categories in the rankings released by Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in the presence of University […]

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