The Delhi-based All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the apex body which licences and monitors the education being dispensed in 5,000-plus profes-sional education institutions across the country, has pulled up 20 private engineering, business and hotel management education institutions in Karnataka (17 of them located in Bangalore) for introducing new study programmes without its […]
Although contemporary India boasts an impressive number of 400 universities and 18,000 colleges, the plain truth is that by global — especially western and Chinese —standards, they are small and infirm institutions, heavily regulated by the Central and state governments. Consequently they are unable to expand capacity quickly to meet the rising demand for tertiary […]
Close on the heels of the Union health ministry’s directive to make a year’s rural service mandatory for medical students across the country to tackle the acute shortage of doctors in rural India, comes yet another diktat to resolve the shortage of licensed medical practitioners countrywide. On March 10, the Union government issued a notification […]
Before Priya Bose (14) hanged herself on March 30 she was just another friendly student of the City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow. But driven to anxiety by poor performance in her final exams, this class VIII student of one of the city’s most highly rated schools, hung herself from the ceiling fan behind locked doors. […]
Tara Sarna, Grade XII Student at The Sriram School, Moulsari and Founder, Youth for Youth, a student organisation for empowering youth. In an increasingly complex .....Read More
Reshma Ravishanker Intensifying their opposition against the proposal to merge nine universities with parent institutions in Karnataka, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) called for a .....Read More
