Panaji, Nov 21 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil will be conferred an honorary doctorate by Goa University (GU).
Patil will be conferred a D.Litt degree (doctor of letters) at a convocation function held at the university Nov 24, GU vice chancellor Dilip Deobagkar told reporters here Saturday.
‘GU’s executive council recommended the name of President Pratibha Patil for [...]
New Delhi/Lucknow, Nov 16 (IANS) The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), which was closed for an indefinite period Oct 30 following violent protests over murder of a student, would re-open Dec 1, vice-chancellor Abdul Aziz said Monday.
Aziz told reporters in New Delhi that teaching in the departments would resume in a phased manner.
The classes in [...]
Aligarh, Nov 14 (IANS) The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), which was closed for an indefinite period Oct 30 following violent protests over the murder of a student, is likely to re-open Dec 1, Vice Chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis said Saturday.
‘Going by the present situation and conditions prevailing on the campus and outside, the varsity [...]
Aligarh, Nov 14 (IANS) The centre of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Bihar would come up in 250 acres, instead of 100 acres now, as the Bihar government has allotted an additional 150 acres of land free to the varsity.
‘We have received an official communique from the Bihar government over the free of cost [...]
Chandigarh, Nov 9 (IANS) Panjab University will publish photographs of students on detailed mark sheets and degrees to avoid discrepancies and tampering of results, an official said here Monday.
‘This initiative would streamline our system and would bring more transparency in the result procedure. With the printing of student’s photograph, there would be no chance of [...]
Agra, Nov 7 (IANS) Hundreds of students of the Dr. B.R.Ambedkar University took to the streets Saturday afternoon forcibly closing down all colleges, to protest the assault on students, including on girls, Friday by varsity employees.
The agitating students want assistant registrar Balaji Yadav sacked for allegedly instigating the employees to beat up the students, who [...]
Lucknow/Aligarh, Oct 30 (IANS) Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was Friday temporarily shut down following protests by students over the murder of a final year student.
‘The decision to close down the university and its maintained institutions was taken in a consultative meeting presided by AMU Vice Chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis,’ AMU’s official spokesperson Rahat Abrar told [...]
Chandigarh, Oct 28 (IANS) In a bid to introduce more transparency in the examination system, the Panjab University (PU) Wednesday said it will allow its students to see their answer-sheets after evaluation, a varsity official said here.
‘It has been decided to maintain full transparency in the examination system. Students will be allowed to see their [...]
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) A leader of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) has protested the hike in the cost of the students’ monthly bus pass to Rs.100 — although it works out to a little over Rs.3 a day.
Reacting to the Delhi government decision to increase the bus pass rate after keeping it [...]
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Students of Delhi University Tuesday wrote to the vice chancellor, protesting the hiked price of the student’s pass for Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses and urging him to talk to the chief minister to re-think the decision.
A cabinet meeting Monday decided to hike DTC bus fares, including the Rs.12.50 a [...]
Lucknow, Oct 22 (IANS) A village council in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad district forced a rapist to accept the victim as his wife, police said Thursday.
The panchayat ordered 25-year-old Imtiaz, a resident of Fakrina village in Allahabad, some 200-km from here, to marry the 21 year-old woman whom he had allegedly raped Tuesday night.
According to locals, [...]
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) In 1985 it was started as a university for disadvantaged students, now 25 years later Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has evolved into a premier educational institution. The varsity will enter its silver jubilee year next month.
‘The university has indeed come a long way since its inception in 1985. [...]
Chandigarh, Oct 18 (IANS) Nearly 4,000 students staying in the Panjab University (PU) hostels can now play a vital role in the decision-making process regarding their accommodation, food and security, among other things.
Panjab University Campus students Council (PUCSC) has introduced a unique concept of feedback forms that have been distributed among all hostel inmates.
‘Through these [...]
Aligarh, Oct 7 (IANS) The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Wednesday constituted an advisory committee to prepare a framework for academic activities to be undertaken in its upcoming centres in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra and West Bengal.
‘The 12-member committee has been entrusted with the task of identifing courses that the university should offer at its [...]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 7 (IANS) Orissa Wednesday constituted a task force consisting eminent academicians to prepare a prospective plan document for higher education, officials said.
The task force will be led by Trilochan Pradhan, a former director of the Institute of Physics and former vice-chancellor of the state’s Utkal University, according a government notification.
It will study the [...]
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Education should be a liberating process, not something ‘which constricts you’, president of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations Karan Singh said here Monday.
Singh was delivering a lecture on ‘The Four Pillars of Education’ to mark the collaboration between IILM, a management institute and a Kolkata-based think tank, Global India [...]
London, Sep 24 (ANI): Brit university vice-chancellor Terence Kealey, who is at the centre of a row over an article about female students being a “perk” to be enjoyed by male academics, has defended his comments.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Kealey was criticised for making the suggestion, and the article has also prompted claims that [...]
Shimla, Sep 24 (IANS) A senior professor in Himachal Pradesh has been arrested on charges of making advances towards a woman student, an official said Thursday.
V.S. Varwal of the Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry was arrested Wednesday, when a student who was doing her M.Sc in post-harvest technology complained, Superintendent of Police (Solan) [...]
Kathmandu, Sep 17 (ANI): Unified CPN (Maoist) cadres waved black flags and pelted stones at Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal as he attended the 34th convocation ceremony of the Tribhuvan University on Wednesday.
The Maoist cadres threw stones and black flags at the stage when [...]
