Pritha Roy Choudhury is a special correspondent and covers overseas education for the news website and magazine. She writes on the aspirations and experiences of the lakhs of students who leave India to study abroad each year. She writes on changing visa and other policies of study-abroad destinations, living and working abroad, financing foreign education, popular programmes, scholarships, trends and more. Based in Kolkata, she also covers education and institutions in and around West Bengal. Her previous stints included work with a multimedia news agency and a citizen reporting initiative. She can be reached at pritha.roychoudhury@careers360.com. On X,, she is @pritharoyc
Laxminarayan Institute of Technology will be delinked from Nagpur University. New BTech, MTech courses, reforms in curriculum, pedagogy are planned.
IIIT Manipur will offer its own certificate, diploma courses, plus a specialised BTech in computer science engineering with placements guaranteed.
Group VC of BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Goa and Dubai, V Ramgopal Rao, on curriculum change, fees, dual-degrees with RMIT Australia.
12th, 10th Result 2023: Major state board, CISCE, CBSE results are yet to come. Board results usually cause spike in depression, suicides.
Several Calcutta University colleges run in 3 shifts and need more funds to implement NEP 2020 recommendations, say principals.
IIM Bangalore’s business incubator, NSRCEL, has programmes for women entrepreneurs. One started a vegan meat brand; another is designing an app for women.
St. Xavier’s University, New Town, Kolkata will start a medical college, offer degrees in emerging technologies, said VC, J Felix Raj.
Bidyut Chakravarty’s tenure as VC of Visva-Bharati University has been a tumultuous one, full of protests, suspensions, rustications and court cases.
One-on-one interviews for student visa allow for better scrutiny and verification, said Indian experts.