The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has announced that it has extended its moratorium for establishing new engineering institutes up to two years with certain exceptions. The following are the exception under which moratorium for establishing new engineering institutes was extended up to two years: State Government proposal to start new Polytechnic in Conventional / Emerging / Multidisciplinary / Vocational …

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on March 30 announced that more than one lakh internship opportunities would be provided by reputed companies like Salesforce, CISCO, Mahatma Gandhi National Council for Rural Education (MGNCRE) and RSB Transmission India Limited. This was announced by the Skills & Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in a virtual meeting in New Delhi. AICTE has created its Internship Portal (https://internship.aicte-india.org) to …

Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) and SuperBloom Studios, a Business Consultancy Firm, are launching an initiative called ‘Hidden Voices’ to reduce the Gender Data Gap in Digital Sources. Partnering with IITM Alumni Association this initiative is starting with Wikipedia. The initiative founders have set a goal of auto-generating biographies of several notable women within the next year, …

The academic year 2022-2023 admission in UG (undergraduate) programs in all UGC funded Central Universities will be through the Common University Entrance Test (#CUET) to be conducted by NTA. State and private universities encouraged to use CUET for admissions Moving towards a sort of ‘one-nation, one entrance test’ for higher education degree programs or more correctly  on the pattern SAT …

Coimbatore-based Bharathiar University will now be able to offer a a wide range of disciplinary courses in business analytics accredited by the Institute of Analytics (IoA) after it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Skill Development Corporation (ISDC). The MoU was signed between Dr. Rupa Gunaseelan, Professor  & Director, BSMED, Bharathiar University, and Shone Babu, Head of …

Centre for Social Development announced (CSD), a group of intellectuals and academicians to work for the social development of deprived sections of society set up in 2015, has constituted its new working committee. The newly constituted committee will be led by Dr. Raj Kumar Falwaria as the Chairman. Other members of the committee are- Luke Khanna, Binit Sinha, Mukesh Bagoria, …