A ‘meta-accrediting body’, NAC will replace NAAC for universities, colleges, and NBA for technical education
Delhi University: Teachers say allowing the VC to change syllabi will undermine DU committees, statutory bodies authorised to frame course content.
UP Schools, UNICEF: The lab initiative in 15 UP districts uses pre-vocational, practical training to bring dropouts to school, curb child labour.
National Credit Framework fixes the number of “notional learning hours” per year for school, UG, PG. Sports, music will also fetch credits.
NMMSS Scholarships: The government has proposed an outlay of Rs 1,827.00 crores to support 14.76 lakh poor children through school over 2021-26.
Medical Colleges: Living with a genetic disorder, Archana Vijayan is training to be a doctor and hopes to make the healthcare system a little more empathetic.
Private universities are recasting the traditional BSc into richly multidisciplinary programmes with research embedded into the curriculum, teaching.
University numbers boomed between 2015 and 2020 but private institutions grew at a much faster pace, in number and enrollment.