Over 33% B Pharmacy, Pharm D seats were vacant in Maharashtra’s pharmacy colleges even after 3 rounds of CAP counselling. The state government had set up a panel.
2,202 scheduled caste, 1,380 scheduled tribe and 3,406 other backward classes’ posts are lying vacant. These include both teaching and non-teaching posts.
IIT Bombay allowed BTech, dual degree and BS students to exit early with the lower BSc Engineering qualification in 2023.
TISS Hyderabad and Tuljapur unions were suspended just before the attempt to sack over 100 staff members; TISS Mumbai union was suspended in May.
‘Minister of education took a stand for the testing agency, rather than the students. They are protecting NTA,’ says Varun Choudhary.
OP Jindal University plans to enter into science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) and other disciplines like engineering and medical sciences.
Students in liberal arts institutions have found their space to dissent, protest, even discuss political issues shrinking over the past few years.
IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Hyderabad and many more are introducing liberal arts programmes on new-age technologies.
Many liberal arts departments and universities are now offering specialisations that bring together science, data and social sciences at the master’s level