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Sunday, June 1st, 2008 |
Express News Service
Posted online: Monday , June 02, 2008 at 02:33:31
Updated: Monday , June 02, 2008 at 02:33:31
Report prepared by Prof Rangan Bannerjee and Vinayak Muley of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at IITB
In an effort to focus the attention on some endemic problems faced by the Indian industry with regards to engineering education and the absence of good quality engineers, professors Rangan Bannerjee and Vinayak Muley of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) have prepared a study report on Engineering Education in India.
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008 |
New Delhi, Apr 10 (PTI) The final list of admissions to the six prestigious Indian Institutes of Management(IIM), which was to have been released tomorrow, will be delayed by at least one week following today’s Supreme Court’s verdict on OBC quota verdict in higher education.
The IIM position came even as Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh said efforts would be made to implement the OBC quota from the coming academic year itself. The verdict in effect gives the green signal to the Centre to go ahead with the reservation policy in elite educational institutions from 2008-09.
“In one or two days, I will tell you about the progress in infrastructure activities in various institutions”, qa visibly happy Singh told reporters here.
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008 |
The Tribune, Chandigarh
by Harihar Swarup
Open universities and imparting of distance education is turning into a revolution, almost on the pattern of IT revolution, in the sphere of higher education. The concept has not only challenged the traditional form of higher learning but also served as a movement to overcome generic problems of scarcity and exclusivity of traditional universities.
One of the pioneers of distance education is Prof V.N. Rajsekharan Pillai, currently Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), and Chairman of its Distance Education Council. Aptly, he was honoured with the Presidential Gold Medal Award by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at 95th Indian Science Congress in Visakhapatanam early this month.
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008 |
Pratap Bhanu Mehta in Indian Express
According to reports, the University Grants Commission is all set to increase its stranglehold on Indian universities. The latest proposal under discussion calls for standardisation and homogenisation of curriculum across all Indian universities. The ostensible rationale for this proposal is that it will make for greater portability across Indian universities. But if followed through, this proposal will squelch the few remaining vestiges of autonomy and creativity left in the Indian university system. It is one more step in the direction of a colossally ambitious centralisation of the Indian university system.
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 |
3 Jan 2008, 0213 hrs IST,Hemali Chhapia,TNN
The mad scramble for admissions to colleges may be a thing of the past. On January 1, the University of Mumbai expanded the number of seats by a whopping 50% this year.
The varsity’s new year bonanza means that an unprecedented number of new institutions—226—have got the green signal for its affiliation. So far, 501 colleges were affiliated to the 150-year-old varsity, with a total student intake of about five lakh. With the new affiliations, the seats for the academic year 2008-’09 are likely to go up by an additional 2.3 to 2.5 lakh.
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 |
Amrik Singh and educationists writes in the The Tribune , Chandigarh
According to Press reports, there is going to be a substantial increase in the allocation for higher education in the XIth Plan. This is welcome. It is also reported that something like Rs 2000 crore is to be provided for those students at the secondary level who at present cannot afford to continue their studies for lack of means. This is also a move in the right direction.
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007 |
Source: Times of India.
For the past 12 years, universities and colleges across Gujarat have denied students the right to elect their representatives, saying student union elections vitiate the campus and turn too violent. But these institutions run a serious risk of inviting the ire of the Supreme Court if elections are not held this year.
On September 22 last year the Supreme Court ordered the implementation of former chief election commissioner J M Lyngdoh’s recommendations for student union elections across the country. Lyngdoh’s recommendations state that universities and colleges must conduct elections for student representative bodies. Besides, all universities must institute an apex student representative body that represents all students, colleges, and departments. (more…)
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Friday, October 12th, 2007 |
Business Standard / New Delhi, October 11, 2007
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and of Technology (IITs) that constantly moan about government interference as a barrier to growth and development may have an indigenous “case study” to the contrary in the IIM at Kolkata. As reported in Business Standard on Sunday, the management committee of the 46-year-old B-school said it will invest Rs 100 crore over the next three years to expand and remodel the campus to accommodate 25 per cent more students. The plan is an elaborate one that includes hiring Christopher Charles Benninger Architects, the reputed American urban development planner who has worked in India for three decades. The two-phase plan includes initially restructuring the campus and expanding hostel and executive facilities to house 163 more students and 150 more executives (who attend the management development programmes). Later, a shopping centre, parking lot and entertainment zone are to be added.
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