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Krea University started with a ‘clean slate’, offering a new curriculum; arts, science, business courses; skills like data science; scholarships.
Kerala University: The CAG audit report also found violations of UGC norms, staff shortage, funds mismanagement, exam and result delays.
Not just IITs, new universities too have framed a range of specialised BTech, BA, BSc and MBA courses, or recast existing ones.
Engineering Jobs: BTech in CSE students in tier-2 and 3 colleges secured big salaries with help from alumni, changing hiring trends, social media.
UPSC CSE: Vacancies advertised dropped to the lowest ever in the past decade in 2021 with only 4,997 posts advertised.
Recently established, FLAME School of Computing and Data Sciences focuses on research in computing technologies.
In Bihar’s state universities, a 3-year BA course can take twice as long; an MA, 4 years. Delays have derailed careers, made education expensive.
Bulandshahr’s ‘district astronomy policy’ encourages science education, innovation, peer-learning. New labs drew children to government schools.
MoS education informed the Parliament that there is “No proposal under consideration” in UGC to absorb the ad-hoc teachers as permanent teachers.
Maharashtra Education: State has over 18,000 teacher vacancies; was unable to construct toilets due to funds shortage. Telangana schools have 11,000 vacancies.
