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15th Parliament
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The 15th Parliament, the last session of
which concluded on February 21, 2014 did little for
Higher Education. In fact it did little justice to the
country’s parliamentary democracy – which is to say that
the political parties showed little political maturity
to keep the house in order.
The 14th Parliament did pass some bills that
the ruling Congress Party thought, would reform the
higher education system in the country but their
cumulative result has been far from satisfactory. In
retrospective it is prudent to say for sure, that it was
Dr Murli Manohar Joshi’s term in the Ministry of Human
Resource Development that indeed, did some concrete
ground work for country’s human resource development.
His decisions were mature, pragmatic, apolitical and
lasting.
Arjun Singh, in the UPA 1
government, opened a can of worms – the deemed
university imbroglio, Muslims’ appeasement, OBC
reservation et al that eventually boomeranged on
him. Kapil Sibal who inherited the legacy in the UPA 2
had to bear the brunt of Arjun Singh’s political game
plan. The spectrum scam precipitated a cabinet reshuffle
which brought in M M Pallam Raju, so to say, “a poor
player”, eventually leading to the cul-de-sac in
the MHRD.
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Relief to
AICTE, powers restored
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NEW DELHI : On April 17 a demoralised All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE) was granted a temporary reprieve by a
division bench of the Supreme Court here allowing it to retain its
regulatory authority over technical education in the country for the
academic year 2014-15.
The interim relief came on a SLP (SLP(C)No.7277/2014) filed
by Orissa Technical Colleges Association which was taken up on April
17 by a division bench of the apex court comprising Justice R M
Lodha and Justice Kurian Joseph.
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Ketan Desai is coming
back to head MCI, says AAA leader
NEW DELHI :
On February 28 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader
Prashant Bhushan alleged that the Congress, BJP and
Samajwadi Party were pushing for the re-entry of Ketan
Desai.
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MCI loosens its
moral code for doctors' associations
NEW DELHI :
If the
Medical Council of India (MCI) has it’s way,
professional associations of doctors like the Indian
Medical Association will not be accountable to it for
unethical practices in future.
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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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INTEREST IN BASIC SCIENCE
DIMINISHING, SAYS SURVEY
INDIA MAY GET ENTRY
TO WASHINGTON ACCORD IN JUNE
b'lore university
AFFILIATES 30 MORE COLLEGES
UGC RULES FOR FOREIGN TIE-UPS
NOTIFIED
KARNATAKA TOLD TO HOLD FEE TALKS
WITH COLLEGES
INDIA TO DEVELOP OWN
HIGHER EDUCATION RANKING SYSTEM
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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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British
scholarships
for Indian students |
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MUMBAI:
The British Council is offering 370 higher education
scholarships to Indian students starting this year.
The
Council has tied up with 36 universities in England,
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to back scholarships
worth Rs100 million which will be granted to 260
undergraduate and postgraduate courses of various
disciplines.
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Nalanda
classes by September, says
Sen |
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NEW DELHI
: Teaching in two schools of Nalanda University
will begin by September this year and the student
application process should begin by April,
university chancellor Amartya Sen has said.
“We expect that teaching will begin by the beginning
of September this year, with the students coming in
by the end of August.
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Ratna for CNR Rao |
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NEW DELHI : On
February 4 President Pranab Mukherjee presented Bharat
Ratna to Prof. CNR Rao at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati
Bhavan. Among the dignitaries present on the occasion were
the Vice President, the Prime Minister and Mrs Sonia Gandhi. |
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