Representatives of three colleges have approached Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur, for advice on how to improve their positions in national ranking exercises. The education ministry has recen...

Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty will lead a 12-hour hunger-strike on Monday to appeal to traders at a makeshift handicrafts market near the campus gate to remove their stalls and allo...

The Age of Information idolizes digital connections. But the desire to establish such links may not always be innocent. A letter from the department of higher education has ‘requested’ — directe...

Panjab University’s Urdu department has objected to its proposed merger with those of various foreign languages, asserting that Urdu is not a foreign tongue but an Indian language like Hindi and Pun...

Kolhan University has decided to organise surprise checks at all its 17 constituent and affiliated BEd colleges to ensure classes are held regularly and focus on the quality of education. The varsity ...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has granted 12-B status to Kumar Bhaskar Varma Sanskrit and Ancient Studies University at Nalbari in lower Assam. The UGC provides financial assistance to eligib...

Visva-Bharati has set up an “academic observatory committee” to scan the performances and activities of teachers in a bid to increase its grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council...

The Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute is the only institute from Bengal that has bagged the highest score, A++, in the latest round of evaluation by the National Asses...

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council was started in 1994 in response to the call by the National Policy on Education (1986) to “address the issues of deterioration in the quality of edu...

New India, not surprisingly, is giving rise to ever-new thought processes. According to the authorities of Panjab University, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council had advised them to merg...