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Lovely Professional University has filed the most patent applications, 1,387; IITs filed 803. The report doesn’t give the number granted.
SWAYAM Portal is the education ministry’s MOOC platform. It hosts free online courses from public institutions, including ones from IISc and IITs’ NPTEL.
CBSE’s draft framework for Classes 9-12 is based on the NCrF which requires two of three languages to be Indian. English is seen as a foreign language.
On January 10, UGC asked universities to implement guidelines on autonomy after finding they were not responding to applications from colleges.
University ombudsperson are expected to address the needs of individual students, not student unions, clarified UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar.
AICTE PARAKH: The self-assessment platform is currently open to engineering, management and MCA programmes.
Higher Education Budget 2024: UGC outlay lowest in 4 years but central universities get Rs 4,300 crore more. IIMs face cuts; IITs, research see increases.
The decision was taken at a UGC meeting with regulators, NAAC, NIRF. UGC chairman, M Jagadesh Kumar pushed for NEP 2020 implementation.
AISHE: Uttarakhand saw numbers drop in PhD; in Manipur and Kerala, the decline was at the UG level. West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand saw enrolment rise.