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Bhubaneswar: As admission season begins, the students are to set to put their foot in several colleges across Odisha. Amidst the excitement, students as well their guardians are also apprehensive regarding the safety in campuses. Keeping this in view, the University Grants Commission (UGC)  has asked higher education institutions to take necessary measures to create […]

With the 2019-20 academic session soon to begin in schools across the country, parents across several cities have reportedly protested the fee hike in CBSE affiliated schools. According to a report of The Indian Express, cities across Maharashtra are protesting the fee hike in schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Reportedly, […]

Bhubaneswar:  Nearly 28,000 students will appear the annual high school certificate (HSC) supplementary examination starting from tomorrow. Board of Secondary Education (BSE) officials informed that special arrangements have been made for the smooth conduct of the supplementary examination in 122 centres across Odisha. Open school students will appear the exams at 54 centres. Even as […]

New Delhi: Upset over the five per cent customs duty proposed on imported books, an association of Indian publishers and book sellers is planning to meet government officials to highlight their problem areas and also stress that books are part of free flow of knowledge and culture and should be made more accessible. Most of […]

Lakhs of students appear for different entrance examinations every year for various degree programs in order to get admission into the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) but a few of them only make it to the premier institution. In order to give the experience of IIT culture to students who could not make it to […]

New Delhi: The DMK on Monday slammed the Centre for rejecting two resolutions passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly seeking exemption to state students from writing the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET). DMK members walked out of the Lok Sabha when the government did not respond. DMK’s T.R. Balu raised the issue during Zero […]

Bhubaneswar: “Experiential learning” will be on the focus of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to make the teaching process student friendly. CBSE secretary Anurag Tripathi said that the board will have a punch line every year. “Students should learn from what they study and use it. It should not be rote learning for […]

Bhubaneswar: The Central Government has introduced a 4-year Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) for pre-service training. The aim of the programme is to offer graduation with certain specializations built into it namely Primary and Secondary Education. As part of the initiatives to improve the quality of education, the government had issued a Gazette Notification on […]

The second round of registrations for the candidates who qualified National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) will be opened by Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) tomorrow i.e on July 9. Candidates who have scored at least 50 per cent (45 for reserved category) are eligible to apply for admissions to MBBS and BDS courses across different […]

Bhubaneswar: The State Higher Education Department on Tuesday issued notices to the Principals of five colleges in Odisha who skipped the Conference of Principals held in Bhubaneswar last month. The department has reportedly issued the show cause notices to Principals of Government Degree College in Bolangir, Government Women’s Degree College in Bolangir, BB Sanskrit College […]

New Delhi: Even before a new session begins, all leading universities and other higher education institutions in the country are busy setting up social media cells to connect all students and staff with the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). A senior MHRD official said: “Through this mammoth social media networking, the Ministry expects […]

Patna: Patna-based educationist and founder of the ‘Super 30’ programme Anand Kumar recently revealed that he is suffering from brain tumour. Kumar, whose life is the subject of the new Hrithik Roshan-starrer “Super 30”, has opened up about his battle with acoustic neuroma, a non-cancerous tumour. In an interview with a wire agency, Kumar said […]

Bhubaneswar: Nearly 72 cases of caste based discrimination against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes students were reported by University Grants Commission (UGC) in various universities and colleges across the country during 2017-18. Most of the cases are handled and disposed off by the authorities of concerned Universities and Colleges, as empowered under their respective Acts […]

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2019 with a voice vote to establish a central university and a tribal university in Andhra Pradesh. The bill, which also seeks an amendment to the Central Universities Act, 2009, was introduced by Minister for Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal on Monday. […]

Cuttack: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha on Friday issued a fresh notification for the candidates of Odisha Teachers’ Eligibility Test (OTET) 2019. Following allegations of question paper leak on January 16, 2019, the Board decided to conduct the examination in online mode. As per the latest BSE notification, eligible candidates have been asked […]