NIT Warangal, BITS Pilani, DTU, and Jadavpur University are reforming their core engineering branches to ensure admissions and placements.
NIT Karnataka Surathkal is launching courses on technology management and redesigning the BTech curriculum to encourage entrepreneurship, innovation.
IIIT Bangalore’s placement dropped by 10 points; NIT Delhi’s BTech CSE students had offers revoked; NIT Puducherry’s average package fell over 50%.
APPSC IIT Bombay had obtained the data on recruitment of SC, ST, OBC candidates from IIT-B itself, through a Right-to-Information query.
Like in engineering colleges, placements for BA, BCom graduates at top arts and commerce colleges are also facing a slump.
Central University of Kerala (CUK) will launch interdisciplinary courses along with focus on research index to improve NAAC accreditation grade.
Several NLUs, Kerala’s state universities, Gauhati University and Tezpur University have all adopted menstrual leave policies.
With 30 students, the preschool teaches English, Hindi and basic Maths to Rohingya children and also provides breakfast.