The Common University Entrance Test-Undergraduate (CUET UG), which has been administered entirely online for the past two years, will now take place in a hybrid format to enable applicants—especially those from rural areas—to take the test closer to home. It has been learned that registration for the test, which will be administered by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on behalf of the UGC, will likely begin on February 19. The format, number...
According to reports, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has suggested making significant changes to the academic framework for secondary and higher secondary education. One of the changes is that Class 10 will now study three languages instead of just two, with the requirement that two of the languages be native to India. Furthermore, instead of the current criterion of five subjects passed, students in Class 10 may now need to...
IIM Bangalore’s digital learning component IIMBx has unveiled a new course on New Age Business Models. The Ministry of Education’s online learning portal, SWAYAM, provides the venue for this six-week short course. The course is free and designed for all levels of students, including undergraduates, postgraduates studying business management, working professionals, aspiring entrepreneurs, and company owners, according to IIM-B. Professor K Ganesh, an experienced entrepreneur, and adjunct faculty at IIM-B, created the...
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) ruled on Saturday that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the nation will now be classified as either “accredited” or “not accredited,” replacing the previous accreditation system that assigned grades to HEIs. The NAAC also resolved to encourage accredited institutions to reach the highest level by assigning them additional levels between one and five during a meeting of the executive council on Saturday. The binary accreditation...
To study abroad and gain admission to some of the best universities in the world, more than 13,24,954 Indian students apply. Experts claim that although Indian students are widely accepted and frequently praised for their superior technical abilities, they fall short in the soft skills department. Ravneet Pawha is the CEO of Deakin University Australia’s South Asia and Vice President of Global Alliances.India’s educational system is changing quickly, moving away from a...
According to a Friday announcement from the Center, all significant schools and higher education institutions must provide educational resources in Indian languages over the next three years. In the next three years, all schools, higher education regulators such as UGC, AICTE, NCERT, NIOS, and IGNOU, as well as the leaders of key educational institutions including IITs, central universities, and NITs, would be required by government directive to provide study materials for all...
Authors, critics, and faculty members of universities are asked to submit Expressions of Interest to the University Grants Commission to develop textbooks in twelve Indian languages for undergraduate courses in the social sciences, sciences, arts, and business. Applications to write books in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu are being accepted by the commission. “UGC is in the process of creating undergraduate science, arts, commerce,...
An agreement has been signed by the University of San Diego, USA, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar, USA, to cooperate in a range of academic, research, faculty/staff development, training, and capacity-building initiatives. The institutes will provide collaborative executive education programs, dual degree programs at the BTech and master’s levels, including a master’s in engineering management and leadership, as well as joint double master’s programs, thanks to this fresh collaboration....
With the aid of generative artificial intelligence, US-based startup Coursera has translated 4000 courses into Hindi to support their further expansion in the rapidly expanding field of online education. This will provide outstanding courses like DeepLearning’s Generative AI for Everyone to the Hindi-speaking audience. Among these are IBM’s What is Data Science? Yale University’s The Science of Well-Being, University of Michigan’s Programming for Everyone, and AI. In 2012, Coursera established its headquarters in...
The Department of School Education and Literacy of Jharkhand has initiated a special initiative called “Prayas -Siti bajao, school bulao” (blow whistle, summon pupils to school) to get back students who have been missing lessons for more than a month. A few days ago, by the government program, a government school in Tangrain, which is around 45 km away, in the Potka block of East Singhbhum district adopted “Siti bajao, Upsthithi badao”...
