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Board Exams: Parakh will study 10th, 12th board exam question papers from the last 5 years and also the success rates of students in JEE, NEET, CUET.
Teacher Recruitment: Slight improvement from Parliament Standing Committee report in March which had flagged 9.8 lakh school teacher vacancies.
NCRB Report: Over 10,000 children under 18 years old died by suicide. For over 2,000 students, failure in exams was the cause.
Cluster University: A maximum of five colleges in a district can be clubbed, at least one needs to be a government college
DU’s 10-marks provision will only be allowed to students who have completed all course requirements except for one single paper
University of Delhi: Proposals for the MTech in CSE and DM courses will be tabled before DU’s Academic Council on November 30.
NCERT textbook panel members have called for including ‘yogic systems’ in psychology, claimed AMU and Jamia scholars ‘control’ historical sources.