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IIT Foundation for Accreditation to accredit engineering colleges

The company established recently, having IIT Madras, IIT Delhi and IIT Kharagpur as founding partners, is now looking for a CEO

University ranking sweepstakes

Should we really pay attention?

IITs can hire on 5-year contracts; weak students to have exit options

MHRD withdraws autonomy from IIT Council agenda, citing discussion with Niti Aayog

IITs may allow weaker students to opt out in 3 years with a BSc degree

If approved, the IITs will implement the suggestion from the current academic year

You're hired! Core sector companies lead Day 2 placements at IITs

Microsoft made the highest number of offers on Saturday, including the top international offers over Rs 15 million

Centre approves Rs 2,000 cr interest-free loan to five IITs, NIT Suratkal

The central government's Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) today approved interest-free loan of over Rs 2,000 crore for research projects proposed by five Indian Institutes of Technology and a National Institute of Technology. "HEFA Board approves Rs 2,066.73 cr interest-free loan to 6 institutions. Today is a historic day for financing needs & promotion of #research & #innovation beyond budgetary allocations," Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar tweeted. The institutions are IIT Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Kharagpur, Kanpur and NIT Suratkal. "While Rs 1028.73 crore has been sanctioned for research and academic facilities, Rs 1,038 crore has been approved for other supporting infrastructure," a senior HRD ministry official said. The Union Cabinet had approved HEFA in September last year as a special purpose vehicle with Canara Bank. It would be jointly funded by the promoter/bank and HRD ministry. According to the funding mechanism, an institution can claim 10

Campus placements: IITs revoke year-old ban on 30 companies

The decision was taken at the 23rd AIPC meeting held at IIT Bombay yesterday

'Indian industry not sophisticated enough to absorb IIT-quality engineer'

Pramath Sinha, founding Dean of the ISB, says we must build new institutions right from day one

HRD ministry asks IITs to develop revenue model

The IITs have been asked to submit data of the fees charged, revenue collected, expenditure and fee

IITs to have wellness centres to help students de-stress

Decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of IIT council

IITs, NITs may do away with courses in earth science, nuclear engineering

Even as the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) asks centrally funded technical institutes (CFTIs) to close down centres and courses which have seen few takers, the latter have said they have been doing it on a regular basis.The MHRD has asked CFTIs to close down branches and courses which have seen fall in applicants in the past few years and instead introduce new courses and disciplines after analysing market opportunity, employability and requirement in terms of research and entrepreneurship.However, CFTIs including the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) have been phasing out courses and streams that do not find enough takers or upgrade them into something more viable.Now, with the MHRD too asking the institutes to follow through, some of the courses and streams that may be discontinued or upgraded include those in earth science, nuclear engineering, fuel engineering, linguistic computing and bioscience, among ...

Faculty shortage in IITs, IIMs and varsities upsets Parliamentary panel

HRD Ministry had told Parliament that 1,310 posts of professors were vacant in central universities

Number of girl students in IITs only 8% in 2015-16: Govt

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said this in a written reply in Rajya Sabha

If IITs had more Dalit professors, would Aniket Ambhore be alive?

Some high-caste professors consider Dalit students 'uneducable', wrote educationist Kurmana Simha

Panel recommends reservation for girl students in IITs

Number of seats for male candidates will not be affected and will help IITs achieve 1 lakh target

Newer IITs see core sector comeback

The sector is represented largely by PSU and govt organisations

IITs may hold inter-institute tech meet every year

In the initial phase inter-IIT tech fest may be clubbed with the fests held by one of the older IITs

Foreign students to pay Rs 6 lakh per annum as fees at IITs

Earlier this year, fees for Indian students at the IITs were increased from Rs 90,000 to Rs 2 lakh

IIT student strength to be 100,000 by 2020

Currently, the overall students' strength in the IITs is 82,604

IITs to make presentation to MHRD on project Vishwajeet on October 20

Seven IITs who are part of this project namely IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Guwahati, IIT Roorkee and IIT Kanpur