The Ministry of Education, Government of India has released All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-2021 and as per 2011 population projections for 18-23 years age group, GER has increased to 27.3 from 25.6 in 2019-20. According to the survey data, the total enrollment in higher education has increased to nearly 4.14 crore in 2020-21 from 3.85 crore in 2019-20. Since …
The Ministry of Education, Government of India has appointed Prof. Dhananjay Singh, chairperson, Centre for English Studies, JNU as the new Member Secretary of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). Prof. Singh is the author of the monographs Fables in the Indian Narrative Tradition: An Analytical Study (D.K. Printworld, 2011), The Poetics of Theatre in Early India (D.K. Printworld, 2021) and the forthcoming Philosophy of Performance in India (Bloomsbury, …
In the 6th edition of Pariksha Pe Charcha (PPC), the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, interacted with students, teachers and parents today at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi. Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister highlighted the importance of Pariksha Pe Charcha for the Prime Minister himself, he pointed out the millions of questions that are posed as part of the programme and …
People with poor literacy battle more mental health problems worldwide, according to new research from the University of East Anglia. The study is the first to look at the global picture of literacy and mental health. Fourteen percent of the world’s population still has little or no literacy – and the study finds that they are more likely to suffer …
According to a news report shared by Human Rights Watch, WIRED reported this week that the Indian government had, for over a year, exposed the personal data of nearly 600,000 students and more than a million teachers on the open web for anyone to find. Human Rights Watch spoke to Nathaniel Fried, co-founder of Anduin, the intelligence software company that had identified …
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) conducted an all-India basis, convocation across 10 leading cities in the country for 14,700 Chartered Accountants, who have completed their program. Of these 44% of which were women. Mumbai had 2386 graduating Chartered Accountants. 4,305 CAs graduated from Western Region comprising of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa. The ICAI Convocation covered awarding Rank Certificates for CA Final …
