The EEC's report mentioned that there were no achievements to take into account while assessing the performance of institutions in the greenfield category.

These regulations have come into force after the HRD Ministry notified by UGC (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2018 this week.

A whopping amount of Rs 9,500 crore has been reserved by the Reliance Foundation for Jio Institute that will be set up across 800 acres in Karjat near Navi Mumbai.

As the backlash on Twitter showed no signs of subsiding, the Ministry of HRD issued a statement clarifying how Jio Institute came to be picked. It clarified that Jio Institute was chosen under the greenfield category.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development today came out with an explanation on how Jio Institute was accorded such coveted status despite having no physical infrastructure in place.

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

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.

From Google and Microsoft to SMSes and IVRS, CBSE Class 10 can access their results in various ways. CBSE Class 10 students can also access the results via apps, SMSes, on Bing and Google and can view their results on UMANG mobile app, available on Android, Ios and Windows phone.

Around 16.88 lakh students appeared for the examinations that were conducted from March 5 to April 4.

Smriti Irani has been moved out of the I&B Ministry. The charge has now been given to Rajyavardhan Rathore, who was earlier given the MoS (Minister of State) independent charge of the Ministry of Sports. Smriti Irani will be in charge of the Ministry of Textile.

Back in 2005, a McKinsey report had claimed that only 25 per cent of India's engineers were employable.

While the leaders remain the same, there are new companies rising up the ladder.

The Union Cabinet yesterday cleared revised pay scales for about 7.58 lakh teachers and academic staff of higher educational institutions following the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission.

Now that IIMs are set to get more freedom to run their affairs, they need to think out of the box to push excellence and make a greater impact.

As key people would have to be entrusted with these critical tasks for implementation, the advisor had to possess a deep, 360-degree understanding of the skill sets, temperament and past track records of those individuals.

The varsities have been asked to identify all transactions being carried out in cash currently and find ways for replacing them with digital modes.

Class 12 CBSE result has been declared online. However,students might face difficulty in logging in on the website due to the heavytraffic.