All these new IIMs, excluding IIM-Ranchi that is in initial stages of construction, are in the last leg of their construction. Addition funding have boosted this work, but now they are in a fix.

IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bengaluru, and IIM Vishakhapatnam had written to the Centre proposing direct entry to the PhD and MPhil programmes.

The AICTE and UGC have been instructed to take punitive action against such institutions, including deemed varsities, if they fail to enforce the directions.

The plan is to convert about 2,600 test practising centres of the National Testing Agency, a testing organisation to conduct entrance examinations for admission in higher educational institutions, into teaching centres where students will get free coaching from May 2019.

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

The CBSE is also planning to schedule its Board examinations so that the results for the same can be declared expeditiously. To this end, plans are to conduct the Board examinations in two legs.

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.