MoE to launch bachelor degree programme for Agniveers, grant 50% credits for in-service trainingThe Centre on Tuesday unveiled a "transformative" scheme called 'Agnipath' for the recruitment of soldiers in the Army, the Navy and the Ai...
16 Jun, 2022, 11.13 AM IST
Agnipath Scheme to offer multiple entry-exit points with appropriate certification at every levelThe Agnipath scheme will provide a special 3 year skill-based bachelor degree programme for serving defence personnel, in order to improve ...
15 Jun, 2022, 04.00 PM IST
Deemed-to-be varsities to face overhaul againApart from government officials and university vice chancellors, this committee is learnt to have brought in former TCS chief executive off...
29 Apr, 2022, 11.53 PM IST
UGC may soon allow dual degree from Indian, foreign institutesNow Indian students will be able to earn a dual degree conferred by Indian and foreign higher education institutions, separately and simult...
21 Feb, 2021, 01.08 PM IST
AICTE not to provide equivalence of nomenclatures for different engineering, tech branchesThe technical education regulator had in 2017 published a gazette notification regarding major or core branches of engineering and their ap...
17 Nov, 2020, 03.27 PM IST
IIIT (Amendment) Bill introduced in Lok SabhaThe Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2020 bill was introduced by Human Resource Development Minis...
20 Mar, 2020, 04.19 PM IST
Cabinet approves conferring INI status to five IIITsThe Five IIITs in PPP mode at Surat, Bhopal, Bhagalpur, Agartala and Raichur will now be able to use the nomenclature of Bachelor of Techno...
05 Feb, 2020, 04.03 PM IST
177 IIM-U grads to be conferred degrees instead of diplomasWhile, IIM-Bangalore awarded degrees to its students this year, IIM-Lucknow conferred diplomas and IIM-Indore was also likely to award degr...
22 Mar, 2018, 06.50 PM IST
Modi government may bring ordinance to empower 15 IIITs to issue degreesFive IIITs have their first batch of students passing out this year and they would be unable to get their degrees in the absence of the leg...
09 May, 2017, 09.45 AM IST
Cabinet nod to bill granting degree awarding power to 15 IIITsThe cost of each IIIT is Rs 128 crore and is contributed by the Centre, state government and the industry in the ratio of 50:35:15.
16 Mar, 2017, 12.03 AM IST
IIM Bill introduced in Lok SabhaOnce the bill is passed and the act is in place, all existing IIMs would become a body corporate.
09 Feb, 2017, 03.54 PM IST
Key bill to bring IIMs at par with global standardsAlthough the IIMs have high credibility in South Asia and are recognised as centers of quality business academia by Indian companies, there...
26 Jan, 2017, 01.29 AM IST
Engineering courses galore, but India has no data on how many engineers and of what kindIn a country where engineering is one of the most preferred professional careers, there is no clarity on the count of students who graduate.
24 Apr, 2016, 08.16 AM IST
Indian Institutes of Information and Technology Bill gets Parliament nodHRD Minister said students passing from these institutes will now get degrees and the govt would make all efforts to attract the best of fa...
01 Dec, 2014, 08.13 PM IST
IIT-UGC standoff set to reaches IIT CouncilIt is learnt that HRD minister has agreed to the idea and the meeting of the council is tentatively scheduled for October 1.
29 Aug, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
No encroachment on IITs autonomy: UGC"Each and every degree awarding institution has full autonomy to offer the kind of program that their statutory bodies deem fit," the UGC s...
26 Aug, 2014, 10.23 PM IST
- UGC cautions universities against award of degrees violating norms
UGC had asked the varsities to stick to the rules, observing that some universities/institutes are awarding "unspecified" degrees leading t...
14 Jul, 2014, 09.51 PM IST