Many Bengal colleges not holding Students’ Week as they kept waiting for formal order

Many Bengal colleges not holding Students’ Week as they kept waiting for formal order

Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI To celebrate or not to celebrate is the question for many colleges in West Bengal regarding Students’ Week, a recently launched annual event held from January 2 to 8, as they have not received a formal order from the State government for its conduct. While … Read more

CET: KEA issues show-cause notice to 2,348 candidates who did not report to colleges

CET: KEA issues show-cause notice to 2,348 candidates who did not report to colleges

Despite being allotted seats in the second extended round of UGCET-2024, 2,348 candidates failed to pay the fee and report to their respective engineering colleges. As a result, the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) issued show-cause notice to these candidates on Wednesday asking for an explanation. Seats denied to others KEA executive director H. Prasanna mentioned … Read more

Tamil Nadu rains, Chennai rain alert LIVE updates: CM Stalin takes stock of monsoon situation; schools, colleges to remain closed across districts today

Tamil Nadu rains, Chennai rain alert LIVE updates: CM Stalin takes stock of monsoon situation; schools, colleges to remain closed across districts today

Low-pressure area over Bay of Bengal to trigger heavy rain over T.N. till Thursday A low-pressure area that formed over the southeast Bay of Bengal during the early hours of Monday will set the stage for widespread rainfall, particularly over north Tamil Nadu, and herald the onset of the northeast monsoon over the State. The … Read more

Karnataka: Regulatory committee formed to monitor free structure in nursing colleges

Karnataka: Regulatory committee formed to monitor free structure in nursing colleges

Presently, the fee structure for nursing students stands at ₹10,000 under government quota, ₹1 lakh under management quota, and ₹1.4 lakh for non-Karnataka students. | Photo Credit: File photo Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil has said that a fee regulatory committee has been formed to monitor and regulate the fee structure in nursing colleges … Read more

Why a proposal to upgrade government, aided colleges as unitary universities was scrapped

Why a proposal to upgrade government, aided colleges as unitary universities was scrapped

Backlash: Members of the Association of University Teachers and Tamil Nadu Association of Non-Teaching Staff of Aided Colleges staging a demonstration in Coimbatore on December 9, 2010 against the plan. | Photo Credit: S. SIVA SARAVANAN While Tamil Nadu continues to expand its footprint in higher education, its attempt to go a step further by … Read more

Kolkata doctor rape, murder case: Massive protests erupt across medical colleges in West Bengal

Kolkata doctor rape, murder case: Massive protests erupt across medical colleges in West Bengal

Police arrested the accused involved in the brutal sexual assault and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at a State-run hospital. Massive protests have erupted among junior doctors and medical professionals in medical colleges and hospitals across the State following the alleged rape and murder of a female doctor at the State-run RG Kar Medical … Read more

AIDSO hits out at NMC for penalising govt. medical colleges in Karnataka

AIDSO hits out at NMC for penalising govt. medical colleges in Karnataka

Student activists in Mysuru have hit out at the National Medical Commission (NMC) for penalising medical colleges in the State. “NMC had issued notices to several medical colleges penalising them for not reaching the prescribed standard required to run a medical college. As many as 13 government medical colleges and 11 private medical colleges have … Read more