Leading IITs i.e. IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee have decided to not participate in any of the Times Higher Education (THE) – World University Rankings this year (2020). These IITs will reconsider their decision next year if Times Higher Education is able to convince them about the parameters and transparency …
Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University (CCSHAU), an agricultural research university in India has recently announced plans to establish a Custom Hiring Centre for farmers in the coming months. This centre, a component of Deendayal Upadhyay Centre of Excellence for Organic Farming” established by the university in 2017, is aimed to broaden the experiential learning for students and will provide farm …
The union HRD ministry had launched a week long ‘Bharat Padhe Online’ campaign for Crowd sourcing of Ideas for Improving Online Education ecosystem of India on 10th April and will close on April 16. The campaign objective was to invite all the best brains in India to share suggestions/solutions directly with HRD Ministry to overcome constraints of online education while promoting …
Tata Sky and Airtel DTH operators have agreed to to air some SWAYAM PRABHA channels on their DTH platform. DD-DTH, Dish TV and Jio TV App were already providing these channels to their subscribers. Now a student anywhere in India can request, DTH ‘Service Provider’ for these channels without any extra cost as these are free to air channels. The …
A web-portal YUKTI (Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and Innovation) was launched by minister for HRD, Ramesh Pokhriyal in New Delhi on April 12 and contains a dashboard to monitor and record the efforts and initiatives of MHRD. The portal intends to cover the different dimensions of COVID-19 challenges in a very holistic and comprehensive way. Portal will also …
In an indication of extended lockdown, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Regional Office Delhi Region has the initiative of creating IDs on Facebook and YouTube to begin online classes in all subjects for the students of class VI to XII. While online live classes for classes VI to VIII will start from Monday, KVS Delhi Region has already started the online live …
