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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

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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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In IIMs, few SCs, STs admitted to PhD, pool shallow over the years

In IIMs, few SCs, STs admitted to PhD, pool shallow over the years

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The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are far from meeting the reservation norms for Scheduled Caste (15%), Scheduled Tribe (7.5%) and Other Backward Classes (27%) in their PhD programmes, but data presented to Parliament by the Union Education Ministry reveal that though the percentage of applications accepted out of total received is similar across social […]

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