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.
Budget Speech: The internship programme will be closed to graduates of IITs, IIMs, IISERs, CA and CMA professionals.
Economic Survey: This is the combined education budget of the centre and states. The survey also says education will be part of a 6-pronged growth strategy for India.
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.
Dharmendra Pradhan maintained that the NEET 2024 paper leak was limited to one Patna centre, that there’s no evidence of paper leak in 7 years.
IIT Bombay allowed BTech, dual degree and BS students to exit early with the lower BSc Engineering qualification in 2023.
On average, 78% of institutions’ revenue is fees. A review suggested moving a large chunk of higher education institutions out of loan financing. Education ministry didn’t.