The week beginning November 18th to 24th, 2023 was designated as the World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week by the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise awareness about the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance and the importance of responsible use of antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines. The Department of Microbiology at the Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN) under the leadership …

Next 5 years may see 600+ technologies going from lab to market as the Department of Science & Technology (DST) supported ecosystem and NRF gets into industry-oriented collaborative research mindset and change in an effort to raise the technological profile of the country and spread it to academia. At the IIT Mandi iHub and HCI Foundation’s “HIVE Conclave” held in …

Being the institution exclusively dedicated to the creative fields, the World University of Design, Sonipat, every year marks the National Design Guru Day on the birth anniversary (Nov 16) of Prof. M P Ranjan, a name that pioneered design education as part of mainstream curriculum and helped it percolate it through generations of students of design. While observing this day …

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is partnering with Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (SRIHER) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to offer a MD-PhD Dual Degree program. Under this partnership the postgraduate medical degree will be awarded by SRIHER and a PhD degree by the Department of Medical Sciences and Technology of IIT Madras. This partnership will concentrate on core clinical, interdisciplinary, …

As a key higher education reform under NEP 2020, the University Grants Commission (UGC) in May this year formally notified the National Higher Education Qualifications Framework (NHEQF). The new framework for the first time has paved the way for Four-year Undergraduate (degree)Programme in India and as per latest reports over 100 other varsities including Delhi University and Visva Bharati University …

After more than 76 years of independence and decades of aborted attempts amid political storms coupled with half-baked bravados of allowing foreign Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) nee foreign universities a foothold in India, on November 7, the country finally notified the University Grants Commission (Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India) Regulations, 2023, which …