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| Plan for common counselling for IITs and NITs | 27-OCT-09 |
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| With seats in certain national level institutes remaining vacant due to multiple counselling, the IITs and NITs could start common counselling, a move that would smoothen the admission process and reduce hardship of students. |
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| Sibal to meet US officials on education sector | 27-OCT-09 |
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| Union Human and Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal is slated to meet top officials of the Obama Administration later this week as part of the endeavour of the two countries to forge greater collaboration in the field of education. |
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| Sibal keen to forge alliance with US varsities | 26-OCT-09 |
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| With the government deciding to set up 14 innovation universities, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today expressed keeness to forge an alliance with leading US varsities in shaping the structure of the proposed institutes. |
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| Bihar CM condemns IIT move; CABE taken aback | 20-OCT-09 |
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| The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) whichapproved several reforms suggested by the HRD ministry only a month earlier, was not consulted on the latest proposal by the latter to raise the qualifying marks in the Class XII Board exams to 80 per cent to appear for IIT entrance examinations. |
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| 'We add five new faculty members every quarter' | 19-OCT-09 |
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| The issue of faculty salaries caused a lot of heartburn after the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) raised a pay hike demand with the HRD ministry. While the issue has been settled with the premier technology institutes, their management institutes chose not to pursue the matter. In an interview with Pradipta Mukherjee, IIM Calcutta director Shekhar Choudhuri says the institute is devising a model to evaluate ‘exceptions’ — as suggested by Union HRD minister Kapil Sabil. |
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| Finance body for low-interest loans for education institutes | 08-OCT-09 |
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| After launching interest-free loan scheme for poor students, the government now wants to set up a finance corporation to provide low-interest loans to institutions and philanthropic organisations for expansion of higher education. |
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| HRD ministry rules out IIT pay hike but relaxes hiring norms | 03-OCT-09 |
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| The month-long face-off between the government and faculty members of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) over the issue of pay structure, hiring norms and autonomy ended today with the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal assuring the premier institutions that they could relax the guidelines in exceptional cases. |
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| Sibal asks IIT professors to rethink on hunger strike | 22-SEP-09 |
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| Maintaining that government would have to regulate the pay structure of IITs, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today said it was not proper for professors of the elite institutions to resort to hunger strike and asked them to "rethink" on their planned agitation on Thursday. |
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| Govt abolishes post of lecturer in IITs | 17-SEP-09 |
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| Faced with strong demands from the faculty of IITs, the government has abolished the post of lecturer in the elite institutes and revised the pay structure for teachers, but did not withdraw the cap on promotion of professors to senior grade. |
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