Superseding the UGC (Institutions Deemed to be Universities) Regulations 2019, the new Regulations are built on the principle of a “light but tight” regulatory framework envisioned in the National Education Policy 2020. There are around 170 deemed institutions in the country currently and were faced with a kind of uncertainty since 2010 in face of standoff with the regulators and public …
Darul Uloom Deoband, the renowned Islamic seminary in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, is in the crosshairs of law for a recent ‘ban’ order on the learning of languages other than Arabic and Urdu. Learning of English language and skills, which appears to be increasingly popular within the student community of the seminary is seen as the chief driver for …
The Children’s Art Museum of India (CAMI) recently launched its inaugural game – Children’s Art Museum on Roblox’s global platform, marking India’s first online art museum in the metaverse designed specifically for children. By offering this game free of charge, CAMI wants to make art accessible to all children, regardless of their background or financial means. The game caters to …
By Prof Samar Agnihotri and Dr. Renu Rameshan The need for industry-academia interaction cannot be overemphasized for the sake of the advancement of science, technology, and productization for the sake of social welfare and economic growth of the nation. Over the last few decades, there have been successful stories wherein academic knowledge has been adopted and commercialized by the industry. However, …
The earliest flowers on Earth, emerging over 140 million years ago, were likely pollinated by insects, new research has found. Ruby Stephens, a PhD candidate in botanical science at Macquarie University, worked with a team of Australian scientists to develop an evolutionary tree tracking the pollination of more than a thousand species of flowering plants across all of the Earth’s …
Autar Nehru After the report of the union Ministry of Education appointed Dr. K. Radhakrishnan-led Overarching Committee was made public on May 12 for consultations, the reforms and restructuring of the assessment and accreditation processes and apparatus for of HEIs (about 1,113 universities and 43,796 colleges) in India, have moved into a critical but transformational phase. The current accreditation mechanism …
