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The new rules allow schools to make children repeat classes but says ‘no child shall be expelled’ till Class 8. Change comes 5 years after the RTE Act was amended.
Landing in University of East Anglia, Norwich, in the middle of Covid, Dhruv Gandhi was initially miserable but learnt to adapt, cook and discover himself.
The proposal on twinning programmes is on the agenda for DU’s upcoming Academic Council meeting. UGC cleared the guidelines on twinned degrees in 2022.
The new PG curriculum framework, already greenlit by the UGC and NEP, is on Delhi University’s Academic Council meeting agenda. 3-year UG students will earn a PG diploma in 1 year.
Management Development Institute Gurgaon’s EMBA curriculum has evolved to include courses in areas such as artificial intelligence, data visualisation, and sustainability.
NTA High-Level Committee suggests ways to set, secure question papers, prevent impersonation in its report on NTA exams. Suggestions like ‘adaptive testing’ are used in GMAT, GRE.
High-level committee’s recommendations for NTA include multi-stage NEET exams and a shift to computer-assisted pen-and-paper test to prevent paper leaks. Reforms must be discussed with NMC, health ministry.
The Radhakrishnan Committee has suggested that the NTA create a network of 500 such CBT centres in schools, universities and institutes in 1 year. The NTA exams report was released today.
The revised cluster university policy is in a Bill for amending the Maharashtra Public Universities Act 2016. It was tabled in the state legislature today.
There were a mere 29 NTA exams in 2024, down from 66 the previous year, and the number of examinees fell by over 22%.
