HECI would focus solely on academic matters. Monetary grants would be the purview of the ministry, according to the draft.

In Tamil Nadu, however, 40% of engineering students are considered unemployable because of the poor standard of training received. The state has more than 550 engineering colleges with around 10 lakh students.

To help alleviate the situation, the Centre has called upon the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Delhi, to chalk out a comprehensive plan for the coming decade.

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In what could be a huge victory for India against Pakistan-based terror groups, the Joint declaration at BRICS Summit today condemned Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in China to attend the 9th BRICS Summit 2017 in the port city of Xiamen.

Policy analysts and experts have advocated the replacement of AICTE and UGC with a more efficient regime for a long time.

The new taxation system will be launched with the beating of a gong when the clock strikes 12.

A sustainable skilling ecosystem is needed to produce a globally competitive workforce which can stay ahead of automation and obsolescence.

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Chennai-based Great Lakes Institute of Managements course curricula are ahead of the curve, yet rooted in Indian traditions.

French company Schneider Electric will open training centres in 500 districts across the country and help set up a Centre of Excellence focused on power, solar and automation sectors.

Government proposes to use infrastructure of 10,000 colleges after college hours to train 10 lakh youth in engineering skills by March 2019, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar told Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

Ashish Nanda, the director of IIMA says, \"The Union Budget identifies education as one of the key pillars on which its transformation agenda is built. The budget offers support to education in three dimensions.\"

While some proposals of the abandoned Direct Taxes Code are already in force, its wider objectives seem to have been abandoned.

Dr N Ravichandran, faculty at IIM-Ahmedabad, discusses the debate on the IIM Bill that has been sharply focused on its possible negative implications.

The syllabi and courses of study pertaining to six BTech programmes in computer science, electronics, food technology, instrumentation, allied papers and polymer science, have been restructured.

Now students as well as parents will have such details of the colleges - their past performance and infrastructure - to make an informed choice before seeking admission.

Likely to be tabled in the monsoon session of Parliament, the IIM Bill 2015 will allow the 13 IIMs to confer an MBA degree rather than the post-graduate diploma in management (PGDM) they offer now.