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- IIT-Delhi alumni association reject compromise agreement
It said the 20 percentile criteria which was agreed upon yesterday at the IIT council meet to end the logjam will make it difficult for stu...
28 Jun, 2012, 09.04 PM IST
- Centre convenes special meeting of IIT Council next week
Govt has called a special meeting of the IIT Council to address the concerns of students after IIT Delhi & Kanpur rejected the proposed sin...
22 Jun, 2012, 04.27 PM IST
- Common entrance test: Kapil Sibal refuses to budge from 2013 date
Sibal’s insistence, however , seems to be contrary to the assurance offered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a meeting with IIT faculty ...
21 Jun, 2012, 11.41 AM IST
- Common test: IIT-Delhi to decide response to government's move tomorrow
IIT Delhi will decide tomorrow its response to the government's move to have a single entrance test for the elite institutes.
20 Jun, 2012, 09.51 PM IST
- IIT-Guwahati Director Gautam Barua comes under attack from faculties' body
IIT-Guwahati Director today came under attack from an apex body of the faculties of all IITs for supporting the Centre's 'one-nation one-te...
12 Jun, 2012, 06.08 PM IST
- Common entrance test: Centre weighs legal strength of IITs’ stand
In a bid to thwart the growing opinion against the common entrance test (CET) within the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the govern...
12 Jun, 2012, 09.16 AM IST
- IIT-Kharagpur Director Damodar Acharya sticks to his stand
IIT-Kharagpur Director justified his stand saying that the new format would help students from rural areas to study in the prestigious inst...
11 Jun, 2012, 10.34 PM IST
- IIT faculty, alumni step up opposition to 'One nation, one examination' system
The loud protests from the IIT faculty, alumni against the government's education reform efforts come at a time when the PM's govt least ne...
11 Jun, 2012, 01.50 AM IST
- No followers for IIT-Kanpur's plan to conduct own entrance exam
IIT-Kanpur senate's announcement to hold a separate exam has created a storm, the final decision is yet to come through.
11 Jun, 2012, 01.42 AM IST
- IIT faculties attack Kharagpur Director for backing govt move
The war within IITs over Centre's 'one-nation one-test' proposal escalated today with faculties of all IITs attacking IIT-K director for ba...
10 Jun, 2012, 09.02 PM IST
- IIT Kanpur's separate entrance announcement puts at loggerheads with Sibal led IIT Council
Friday’s resolution puts the IIT Kanpur faculty, who comprise the Senate, on collision course with the IIT Council, which is headed by huma...
09 Jun, 2012, 07.49 AM IST
- Common entrance examination system: HRD ministery rejects criticism by the IIT alumni and faculty federation
Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said that this was “a complete misrepresentation of facts”
07 Jun, 2012, 08.22 AM IST
IIT alumni write to PM opposing common IIT-JEE, Kapil Sibal claims senates' nodA section of the IIT alumni wrote to PM Manmohan Singh on opposing the common IIT-JEE exam from next year even as the government said that ...
07 Jun, 2012, 05.48 AM IST
- Meet on proposed IIT entrance exams ends inconclusively
The fate of a CEE for all centrally funded engineering colleges continued to hang in balance as the meeting b/w HRD ministry & the IITs end...
12 Apr, 2012, 06.21 AM IST
HRD Ministry reaches out to IITs to clear doubts on ISEETThe human resource development ministry is reaching out to the IITs to smoothen misgivings about a common entrance examination for science ...
05 Apr, 2012, 09.26 AM IST