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Smriti Zubin Irani, 38, the youngest minister in the
Modi cabinet has been allocated the Ministry of Human
Resource Development. The move has surprised many
political observers who have given vent to their views
and venom on social media as well as in private gatherings.
Irani, a higher secondary passout,
with a soap entertainer background, was pitted against Rahul Gandhi
in Amethi and, indeed, gave him a tough fight, loosing
by just a few thousand votes. Obviously this does not
qualify her for the august Ministry of Human Resource
Development which was, in the recent past, graced by
giants like Murli Manohar Joshi, Arjun Singh and Kapil
Sibal. Higher
Education experts and political observers are at their
wits end to solve this mind-boggling riddle behind
Modi's ministry-making exercise.
Smriti is a sitting Rajya Sabha member
who was elected
from Gujarat in 2011 and hence doesn't need a
bye-election route to Parliament till 2016. But then
what prompted Narendra Modi to award the high-profile
MHRD portfolio to her?
Is she being used as proxy,
a stop-gap arrangement, till a political heavy-weight
--may be Dr Murli Manohar Joshi -- agrees to step
in ?
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5 new
IITs, IIMs & 4 AIIMS proposed
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NEW DELHI :
The country will have five more Indian
Institutes of Technology (IITs) and five new Indian Institutes
of Management (IIMs). This was stated here on July 10 by the
Finance minister Mr Arun Jaitley in the Lok Sabha while
presenting the budget proposals for 2014-15.
Promising a boost to higher education, Jaitley increased
budgetary allocation for Education by nearly 13 per
cent over that of 2013. School education, however, got
about 10 per cent increase compared to
last year. In exact terms Rs 55,115.10 crore have been
allocated for school education, literacy programmes and
other schemes and Rs 27,656 crore for higher education.
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MCI acts tough, rejects
outgoing govt's recommendations
NEW DELHI : The
hope of over 70 medical colleges — private and
Government — to get clearance for new PG medical courses
or seats for academic session 2014-15 has been dashed. more
80 colleges in
Telangana, five in Seemandhra plan closure
HYDERABAD : Andhra
and Telengana owe Rs. 1,300 crore to various private
engineering colleges in the two states. The amount is
due since last year as fee reimbursement to these
colleges.
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UGC proposes a 3-year Bachelor of Vocation
degree course
MUMBAI: UGC has
proposed a three-year Bachelor of Vocation (B.Voc)
degree course at recognised colleges and universities.
It will be different from the conventional arts, science
and commerce course.
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UGC move to bail out 44
damned deemed universitiesl
NEW DELHI : Under pressure, the University Grants
Commission
has recommended a fresh inspection and review of 44
deemed universities that were found unfit by a
government committee in 2009.
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IIEST, Shibpur wants
to go the IISER way
Pune, Kolkata film
inst. to be centres of excellence
4-year UG course :
UGC sends warning note to varsities
UGC MOVE TO BOOST
BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
KARNATAKA TOLD TO HOLD FEE TALKS
WITH COLLEGES
INDIA TO DEVELOP OWN
HIGHER EDUCATION RANKING SYSTEM
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Pune varsity named after Savitribai Phule |
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PUNE : On July
7 Maharashtra government renamed Pune University as
Savitribai Phule University. The decision was taken to give
the 19th century reformer's name to the university. The move
comes after several organisations representing backward
classes made demands to name it after Savitribai. The
reformer belonged to a backward class and started the
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SC stays Kalyani's ouster from MKU |
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NEW DELHI : On July 4 the Supreme Court stayed an
order of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court,
quashing the appointment of Kalyani Mathivanan as
Vice-Chancellor of Madurai Kamaraj University.
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CBI books Gajbhiya for disproportionate assets |
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NEW DELHI :
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case
against N.S. Gajbhiye, former vice-chancellor of Harisingh
Gour University, Sagar for allegedly amassing illegal wealth
worth over Rs. 2.54 crore.
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MCI tough
on quality, cuts 32% MBBS seats |
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NEW DELHI :
Following a tough line, the Medical Council of India (MCI)
has cancelled about 32 per cent of MBBS seats nation-wide
making competition for medical admission more tough.
According to reports the MCI withdrew permission for 15,890
of the 49,950 MBBS seats nation-wide citing lack of
infrastructure and faculty requirements in the affected
medical colleges.
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UGC deemed
varsities' regulations quashed |
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BANGALORE : On May 22 the vacation bench of the High
Court of Karnataka quashed the
University Grants
Commission (Institutions Deemed to be Universities)
Regulations 2010, terming it
‘unconstitutional and invalid.’.
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Tech
colleges to face tough affiliation rules |
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NEW DELHI
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The
technical
education institutions in the country will now have to
face relatively tougher rules for university
affiliation.This follows the Supreme Court decision in
Association of Management of
Private Colleges vs All India Council for Technical
Education & others
delivered on April 25, 2013.
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