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A new Government body for Higher Education Standards in India
The Indian government is currently exploring the merger of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and University Grants Commission (UGC) into a new body to look after the standards of higher education institutions (HEIs) in India. What is happening? As per a media report, the Indian Government is currently investigating the possibility of ..
Topics: All India Council for Technical Education • Education • Education in India • Higher education • Higher education in India • Indian Institute of Planning and Management • Ministry of Human Resource Development • University Grants Commission
Madhya Pradesh government to offer modern nursery education at anganwadis
The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to offer modern nursery education at anganwadis (or childcare centres ) on the lines of private nursery schools. Under this scheme, all the 97,000 anganwadis of the state would be covered. In the first phase, a nursery school has been opened at each anganwadi across 313 administrative blocks across ..
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Topics: Anganwadi • Child care • Education in India • India • Madhya Pradesh • Preschool
Manipur government launches School Fagadaba to improve infrastructure in government schools
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh launched a scheme named “School Fagadaba” (Make education bettter) to improve infrastructure of government schools in the state. The aim of the scheme is to ensure better infrastructure, quality education and overall improvement of government schools to make them model schools. In the first phase of the scheme, one ..
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Topics: Education in India • India • Manipur • Northeast India • Subdivisions of India • Tourism in North East India
Noted educationalist Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy passes away
Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy (93), Acclaimed educationist, journalist and patron of the arts, has passed away in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on 5th August 2019. Parthasarathy founded the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Group of Schools driven by her desire “to Indianise school education”. She waspopularly known as Rashmi or ‘Mrs YGP’. In 2010, she received the Padma Shri ..
Topics: Education in India • Indian people • Kalvialaya • Mrs YGP • Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan • Seshadri • Tamil Nadu • Y. G. Mahendran
IIT Bombay becomes India’s best institute in QS World University ranking 2020
Twenty-three Indian Institutions have been ranked among the best global universities in the latest 2020 QS World University ranking. In it, IIT Bombay has become India’s best institute & secured 152nd rank globally. IIT Delhi and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore have also been figured in the top 200. Other Indian universities included in ..
Topics: Education in Delhi • Education in India • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi • Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur • Indian Institutes of Technology • Inter IIT Sports Meet • Ministry of Human Resource Development • States and union territories of India • Universities and colleges in India