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| Mixed reactions to IIT, IIM woes | 22-SEP-09 |
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| The decision to go on a one-day strike by the faculty members of the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to protest the modified notification of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) — which, among other things, ignores their demand for a pay hike — has evoked a mixed response from the student community, alumni of the premier institutes, and guardians of education. |
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| Academicians meet to discuss Yash Pal Committee report | 13-SEP-09 |
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| A large number of academicians, including principals and vice-chancellors of various colleges and universities, met here today to discuss the Yash Pal Committee report on higher education, according to Pankaj Chandra, director of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B). |
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| Kapil Sibal meets 100-day targets | 11-SEP-09 |
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| “The agenda for schools is 100 per cent complete. Now you tell me the agenda for the next 100 days,” asserted Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal today while revealing the status of his 100-day plan. He insisted that his ministry had not only met the 100-day targets but even exceeded them in some cases. |
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| HRD ministry working on reform details | 01-SEP-09 |
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| HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said the process of formulating an overarching body for higher education regulation, on the lines recommended by the Yash Pal committee, was on. He also said he was open to the idea of Indian universities collaborating with foreign ones or with the corporate sector. |
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| Subir Roy: Reengineering higher education | 22-JUL-09 |
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| The country is immersed in a critical debate on how to reform and rejuvenate its higher education, led by a literate and articulate minister Kapil Sibal. Luckily, two major forward-looking reports (of the Knowledge Commission and the Yash Pal committee) provide vital reference points from which arguments can take off. |
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| Centre seeks UGC's views on higher education authority | 21-JUL-09 |
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| The central government has sought views from state governments, University Grants Commission (UGC) and other statutory councils on the recommendations of the Yash Pal Committee’s report on ‘Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education’. |
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| Private varsities told not to venture beyond jurisdiction | 15-JUL-09 |
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| The University Grants Commission (UGC) has advised all the privately-funded state universities to stop their operations, if any, beyond their territorial jurisdiction, as off-campus study centres operating through franchises would violate a decision of the Supreme Court in 2005.
The apex court’s decision was in response to objections raised by former UGC chairman Professor Yash Pal over the Chhattisgarh government’s decision to set up universities without caring for the |
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| New drug regulator, manpower gap in focus | 02-JUL-09 |
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| Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad unveiled his agenda of reform for the sector today, announcing a special salary package for doctors and paramedics in selected village primary health centres. He also promised a central authority to regulate drugs , to amend the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, and to set up a National Council for Human Resources in Health, to look at manpower needs. |
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| ....to heed NKC, Yash Pal panel proposals | 05-JUN-09 |
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| In an attempt to make higher education inclusive, President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, in her address to the Joint Session of the 15th Lok Sabha, said: “The government’s strategy for higher education will be formulated around a three-fold objective of expansion, inclusion and excellence. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: A Sebi for higher education | 24-MAY-09 |
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| Yash Pal committee has given all the ideas - including the setting up of a higher education commission - that the new government needs to implement to reform the education system. |
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| Tripura sounds swine flu alert | 30-APR-09 |
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| The Tripura Government has sounded an alert in the state to check an outbreak of the deadly swine flu, official sources said today. |
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| Universities discuss autonomy proposal | 31-MAR-09 |
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| Around 40 directors and vice-chancellors (VCs) of several institutes and universities met with members of the Yash Pal Committee in Bangalore today to give their comments on the draft report on Higher Education Commission (HEC) — prepared by the Yashpal committee — which has called for doing away with regulatory bodies like the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). |
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