Ministry of Human Resource Development News

A bench, headed by Justice NV Ramana, said the courts cannot decide on the issue concerning the nature of school to be opened at any location, but it can direct the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to decide on the matter within three months.

After speaking to a JNU delegation, MHRD Secretary Amit Khare on Thursday said that the January 5 incident of violence is upsetting, adding that the MHRD is trying to address grievances of the students.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank replying to an unstarred question informed that among the measures introduced to effect this change is - reduction in the number of questions, more internal choices, increase in the number of objective type questions and reduction in subjective questions and introduction of internal assessment in all subjects.

The Fit India School rankings have been divided into 3 categories - The Fit India Schools, which is the first level of ranking, Fit India School (3 star) and Fit India School (5 star).

O P Jindal Global University (JGU) recognised as an Institution of Eminence by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, offers students 14 undergraduate, six post-graduate and a doctoral programme.

As per instructions, the weight of school bags for students of classes I and II should not exceed 1.5 kg, while the school bag of students of class III to V should weigh between 2 kg to 3 kg. Watch this video to know more.

Letters of Intent were also issued to five private universities for accepting and sending their preparedness for being declared as IoE.

The occasion is to commemorate the serving of 3 billion meals by the foundation.

The push will be rolled out through the Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA) over the next four years, Javadekar said.

The Supreme Court order of March 29 upholding a state High Court order terminating the jobs of 10,323 government teachers has added to the vacuum.  

Salaries to faculty and staff are delayed, new projects are on hold, there is tension among students on the campus over a massive fee hike.

The practice of awarding grace marks will continue to ensure that a student clears an exam if he or she needs a few marks to do so.

The year 2018 will bring an unified entrance test at an under graduate level for all engineering and architecture colleges across the nation, the Ministry of Human Resource Development announced on Friday. 

In an effort to prevent incidents of suicide on campuses, the HRD ministry will ask universities to establish local guardian systems for outstation students, while the Vice Chancellors would closely monitor the departmental issues.

The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that it did not take a "rigid" stand in the appointment of Vice Chancellor of AMU and forwarded three short-listed names to the President for approval as the varsity has kept the UGC regulations on the issue at abeyance.

After serving as the Minister for Human Resource Development for two years, Smriti Irani took charge of the Ministry of Textiles yesterday.

Smriti Irani was sent to the low-profile Textiles Ministry from Human Resource Development in Tuesday's reshuffle.

Prakash Javadekar replaces Smriti Irani, who after serving as the HRD minister for two years, took charge of the Ministry of Textiles yesterday.

Undergraduate and postgraduate students at NITs will now have to shell out Rs 1.25 lakh annually, up from Rs 70,000. 

The UGC has come out with guidelines that provide a framework for the transfer of marks scored in approved online courses to regular classroom courses.