Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (AVV), Coimbatore has emerged as the 4th best university in the country in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Rankings 2020. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi; and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, occupy the first three positions in university category. AVV has also been ranked 7th among medical colleges in India. In 2019, Amrita Vishwa …

IIHMR University, Jaipur, has been ranked at 65 in the category of management institutes, up by 7 over last year’s rank (72) in the NIRF rankings 2020. IIHMR University is now the first private institute from Rajasthan in this category to achieve this milestone. Apart from IIHMR University, the only institution which could make in top 75 in the management category from Rajasthan is …

Mumbai’s three reputed colleges – K. C. College, H. R. College and Bombay Teachers’ Training College (BTTC) – part of a 70-year old Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board (H(S)NCB), have come together to form Maharashtra’s second cluster University; named as ‘HSNC University’, established under the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shikshan Abhiyan (RUSA) scheme, a funding agency under the Central government. Bhagat Singh …

National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)  has collaborated with TCS iON, a strategic unit of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to provide NSDC’s training partners access to the TCS iON Digital Glass Room, enabling them to move classroom vocational skills training to online mode for millions of students across the country. Both the training partners and the learners can continue to adopt digital technologies in …

File photo: Parent group protest in 2019 By Autar Nehru The Covid19 pandemic has exposed the fault lines within the school system as the wavering trust between private schools and parents touches nadir over fee payment and both sides are now standing vociferously against one another, including in several courts. While some states have made a general appeal to these …

After indicating that Government is contemplating the option of reduction in the syllabus and instructional hours on requests from parents and teachers, union HRD minister Pokhriyal is facing flak from experts as they feel any such step at this stage is of no use. They say any quantum of reduction would depend on when will the schools reopen and what …