Education News Updates

New Delhi: The IITs have revoked a ban, which they had imposed on 30 companies, mostly start-ups, barring them from participating in their campus placements. The ban was announced after these firms withdrew their offers made to the students last year. The decision to revoke the ban was taken yesterday at a meeting of the […]

Bhopal: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today petitioned the police here seeking action in connection with what it called a big scam in National Institute of Open Schooling, under which 1,200 candidates in Madhya Pradesh who did not even write the exam were allegedly declared pass in June this year. “Even before the AAP’s intervention, […]

Guwahati: Most children enter primary school at age five with little readiness for it, leading to low learning levels, according to a new report by UNICEF and three other institutions. The study, jointly conducted in Assam, Rajasthan and Telangana by UNICEF, Centre for Early Childhood Education (CECED) and the ASER Centre, found that a majority […]

Greater Noida: The district administration today briefed nearly 10,000 staffers from 124 schools, including principals, on measures to be taken for the security and safety of students. They were also told about the procedures for safety audit for schools at a workshop here. District Magistrate (DM) B N Singh said as per guidelines of the Ministry […]

Noida: The district authorities have directed schools here to implement the safety guidelines issued by the CBSE by September 30. Gautam Budh Nagar District Magistrate B N Singh said that a verification drive would be launched after that date and action would be taken against the schools if the guidelines were found to have been […]

"We might start the registration process (for admissions) by the third week of July. There are chances that we might start the registration process for the nine entrance-based courses and postgraduate courses by that time in the first phase and then the registration process for the merit-based courses."

The final year or final semester examinations will be held in July or August in online mode for the 2020-21 academic year. The result will be published in August or September.

Unfazed by the recent upheavals at the board, Infosys will continue to hire about 6,000 engineers annually over next 1-2 years, same as last fiscal, according to a top company official. The country’s second largest software services firm has also ramped up its hiring process in the US and European markets as it looks to […]

New Delhi: The HRD Ministry today clarified that the institutions created through an Act of Parliament do not need an FCRA licence to receive foreign funds. The Home Ministry has cancelled the FCRA licences of several hundred organisations, including DU, JNU and IIT Delhi, for failing to file annual returns for five consecutive years. “Institutions […]

New Delhi: The lack of institutional system for orientation of teachers and other staff in private schools on critical issues like safety and security often leads to lapses, says a member of NCPCR, the apex body for protection of child rights in the country. Also, private schools have exploited policy loopholes and shortcomings to deny […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Centre has decided to grant nearly complete autonomy and freedom from regulators to 15% of the “top class institutes” of the country, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday. The human resource development minister also said that his government was planning to provide loans for creating research infrastructure in the country. “We […]

New Delhi: Pitching for the scrapping of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission into medical colleges, JD(U) Rajya Sabha member Sharad Yadav today said the Centre and the states should argue against it in court. He also said Parliament should enact a new law, restraining the Centre from interfering in the affairs of state […]

Roorkee: IIT Roorkee aims at recording one of the highest pre-placement offers this year with 23 top-notch companies visiting the prestigious institute ahead of the placement season in December. The IIT has received 92 pre-placement offers so far, out of which 82 have already been accepted by the students. The highest package offered during the […]

New Delhi: Hitting out at the Modi government over the suicide of a Dalit medical aspirant in Tamil Nadu, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury today sought to know how was the Centre planning to “impose” NEET examinations without taking states on board. 17-year-old Anitha, daughter of a daily wage earner, allegedly hanged herself at her […]

Chennai: Eminent geriatrician Dr V S Natarajan today urged engineering students to take up projects which would benefit the elderly people in their daily life. Also Read: CBSE allows schools to set up shops in campus to sell NCERT books “There is a lot of scope for development of projects for the elderly such as […]