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Jio
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A Statesman Report
NEW DELHI August 1, 2018 : There are two ways
in which Governments can be made to bend to individual
will. The first is to persuade those in power to flout
policy to favour a person or an institution. This route
can open governments to criticism because the deviation
is easily established.
The other is to get Government to write policy that fits
the needs of a beneficiary. The Institution of Eminence
scheme formulated by the Government last year appears to
be an example of the latter, tailored as the
Gazette notification of 29 August 2017 was to favour
the proposed Jio Institute of the Reliance Foundation
run by Mukesh and Nita Ambani. But the devil is in the
details.
To begin with, the
Gazette notification entitled UGC (Institutions of
Excellence Deemed to be Universities), Regulations 2017,
lists the following parameters that the Committee of
Experts constituted to identify Institutions of Eminence
should seek in an applicant:
It should preferably be multi-disciplinary or
interdisciplinary and have both teaching and research
focus of an exceptionally high quality.
It should offer interdisciplinary courses, including in
areas of emerging technology and interest as well as
those of relevance to the development concerns of
countries like India and also award degrees, diplomas
and other academic distinctions in such
interdisciplinary areas. Click
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Jadavpur University shows its ugly side, Union minister
hurt
in melee
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NEW DELHI :
September 19 will go down in the
history of Jadavpur University, Calcutta as a black
day following an unfortunate and ugly situation that
was created by a violent clash between the goons of
the ultra Left, who are finding their domination on
the university campus receding, and the belligerent ABVP bullies who are out to capture university's
students politics.
In the melee Babul Supriyo the Union Minister of
state for Environment, Forest and Climate Change got
roughed up, the university Chancellor got gheraoed
and the poor Vice-Chancellor Suranjan Das and his
PVC Pradip Ghosh had to be hospitalised for
sudden hypertension. The state government, shifted
the blame on the Chancellor saying he shouldn't have
gone to the campus in such a situation without state
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UGC to review quality
of theses submitted in last 10 years
NEW DELHI :
The UGC has now decided to review the quality of all
Ph.D theses in Indian universities. All theses submitted
in Central, State and private universities in the last
10 years will be reviewed.
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SC tells FORE to
pay Rs 23 crore fine to AICTE for excess admissions
NEW DELHI :
On June 21 the Supreme Court upheld a penalty of
Rs 23.10 crore imposed on FORE School of Management by AICTE for
admitting 42 students in excess to the sanctioned seats.
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UGC again toying with idea of multiple
degree courses
NEW DELHI : The University Grants Commission
(UGC) is toying with the idea of allowing multiple
degrees simultaneously from different universities or
the same university.
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Rural posting to be made
must for UP's MBBS passouts
LUCKNOW : On September 23 UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said
that those graduating from government medical
colleges in the state will have to accept rural posting
for two years.
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Courts CANNOT
examine answer sheets, says SC
GDA
cancels land allotment to IMT Ghaziabad
re-recognition of distance edu courses
opposed
YOGI DEMANDS SC, ST RESERVATION IN
AMU, JAMIA
ENGINEERING LOSES LURE AS BOYS
TURN TO HUMANITIES
52% IIT ENTRANTS
QUALIFIED BY SELF-STUDY : REPORT
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Cabinet okays National Med Commission bill |
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NEW DELHI : The draft of the National Medical
Commission (NMC) Bill, 2019, which had been drifting on
for three years has finally been approved by the Union
cabinet but may still take some time in Parliament
considering the nature of reforms it proposes. In the first place, the reforms that the
bill proposes would affect the business of private
medical colleges in the southern states and their lobby,
very strong as it is, may place numerous legal and
political hurdles in the way.
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SC rejects Telangana HC fee fixation order |
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NEW DELHI : On July 1 the Supreme Court firmly
rejected the Telangana High Court's orders fixing fee
structure of unaided minority and non-minority
institutions for engineering courses for 2016-17 and
2018-19 academic years.
A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Naveen Sinha
said that "the court, in the
garb of judicial review, cannot usurp the
jurisdiction of the decision maker and make the
decision itself. Neither can it act as an appellate
authority of the TFARC.
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NEET results show new competitive trends |
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NEW DELHI : The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance
Test (NEET) results announced by the newly-formed
National Testing Agency (NTA) on June 5
show some startling trends that beat our conventional
thinking.
A brief data put up on the
Press Information Bureau website
shows that unlike our conventional thinking, the
Brahmins which used to bag the lions share of
medical seats have been relegated to the background with
Banias (Vaishyas) taking the lead among the
general category seats.
Secondly the OBCs have started doing remarkably well while the
SC/STs too have improved their tally.
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Sabu Thomas is MGU
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TRIVENDRUM : On May 27 Kerala Governor-Chancellor P.
Sathasivam appointed Sabu Thomas, Professor, School of Chemical
Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, as the Vice Chancellor of the
university.
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Jio choice : MHRD says expert panel did it |
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NEW DELHI :
Facing mounting criticism HRD Secretary R. Subrahmanyam on July 10
took refuse behind former Chief Election
Commissioner N. Gopalaswami and others who, he said, had
chosen the institution for Institute of Eminence
status. In his
clarification the Ministry of Human Resource Development
said that the names of the six institutions were
recommended by an eminent panel and that
there was need to trust their judgment.
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