China on Monday announced plans to issue visas to hundreds of Indian students stranded at home for over two years due to Beijing’s strict COVID restrictions, besides various categories of travel permits for Indians including business visas. “Warmest congrats to #Indian #students! Your patience proves worthwhile. I can really share your excitement & happiness. Welcome […]
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Following complaints about alleged irregularities in appointments at the state-run Guru Nanak Dev University, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau Monday launched an investigation with focus on role played by Vice-Chancellor Dr Jaspal Singh Sandhu. The Amritsar-based university, meanwhile, issued a statement terming the allegations as frivolous and baseless and made by certain teachers “who want to […]
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Hearing a petition filed by repeaters of the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET), the high court on Thursday asked if 75 per cent of the test score and 25 per cent of the pre-university (PU) marks of the repeaters could be considered while allotting seats for professional courses. “In all fairness to the freshers and […]
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Three persons associated with an overseas education consultancy firm in Ahmedabad in Gujarat were arrested on Saturday for allegedly forging marksheets to help students secure admission in institutes abroad, Gujarat police said. An owner of the office of the firm identified as Uniworld Education in Ahmedabad and his two associates have been arrested for changing […]
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Most tutorial centres in Pune were reportedly disappointed with the results of the JEE Main Session 2 declared by the National Testing Agency (NTA) Monday. Many blamed the pandemic and online coaching for the overall drop in success rate. Durgesh Mangeshkar, the director of IIT Prakashan, said the success ratio of JEE coaching institutes across […]
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As the Common Entrance Test (CET) 2022 results announced on July 30 were marred by controversy with repeaters protesting over the exclusion of their pre-university course (PUC) marks, the Karnataka Examination Authority on Monday postponed the verification process for engineering admission from August 5. The new date will be announced shortly, the KEA said. Protests […]
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The CBSE pass percentages in Maharashtra were recorded at 97.42 per cent for Class 10 and 90.21 per cent for Class 12, while that of the Pune region, which includes Maharashtra, Goa, Diu-Daman and Dadra Nagar Haveli, were at 97.41 and 90.48 per cent respectively. The region fared far better than the national average of […]
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Two months after the Mamta government allocated seats for practical training to 412 medical students who had returned from Ukraine to West Bengal, the union minister of state for health and family welfare Dr Bharti Pravin Pawar said in a Lok Sabha answer said that there were no provisions in the acts governing medical education […]
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Flagging concerns over inadequate investment in moderating content in languages other than English, the Oversight Board of social media company Meta has pointed out the small number of user appeals from India and other such non-English majority countries that the advisory group received. In its first annual report, the board noted that almost half of […]
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The Cathedral Vidya School (CVSL) in Lonavala, a residential IB (International Baccalaureate) World School, which also offers Cambridge IGCSE curriculum, has shut down. The teaching and non-teaching staff and parents were informed on Saturday via an email from the management that it is no longer financially viable to continue operations. This comes at a time […]
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