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On Monday, Australian universities and training centres were invited by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to investigate the possibility of opening campuses in India and working with Indian institutions on other projects. Pradhan, who is on a four-day visit to Australia, tweeted, “We had fruitful conversations on further enhancing our cooperation in education, skill development, […]

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said on Monday the ”greatest tribute” to gender justice would be to implement a uniform civil code. Delivering the Dr B R Ambedkar lecture series, she said uniformity of laws is meant to make people progressive and broad-minded. The JNU Vice-Chancellor said Dr B R Ambedkar wanted the implementation […]

Universities and higher education institutions across the country will now be allowed to create up to 25 per cent supernumerary seats for foreign students in their undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) programmes, UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar has told PTI. There will be no entrance tests for these admissions, Mr Kumar said, adding that the decision […]

A three-day pre-counselling fair for online admission in engineering and technical colleges was inaugurated by West Bengal Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim here on Wednesday. The fair, organised by the Association of Professional Academic Institutions, is being held in hybrid mode this year, thus enabling students to attend sessions physically as well as over a […]

The Delhi University is planning to introduce internal assessment in distance learning programmes from the current academic session. Until now internal assessment was applicable to regular programmes only, and it did not apply to the School of Correspondence Courses and Continuing Education. A resolution in this regard is slated to be tabled during the upcoming […]