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Donald Trump: Closing colleges amid outbreaks 'could cost lives'

President Donald Trump has blasted universities that have cancelled in-person classes amid coronavirus outbreaks, saying the move could ultimately cost lives rather than saving them

Delhi tells SC it's cancelling exams in state univs for Covid-19: Report

Kejriwal government asks state universities to cancel all exams on July 11 citing the fast-spreading Covid-19 pandemic

NEP paves way for top-200 global varsities to set up operations in India

Experts believe the National Education Policy 2020 is disruptive but are divided over its effectiveness

Cancel exams, promote varsity students on past performance: Rahul urges UGC

Gandhi said it is unfair to conduct examinations during the Covid-19 pandemic and the UGC should listen to the voice of students

Letter to BS: Public universities, colleges should get full autonomy

It is time that Association of Indian Universities and University Grants Commission gave full autonomy to our public universities and colleges in faculty selection

Calcutta University Result 2019: BCom 2nd Sem results out; steps to check

Calcutta Univerity BCom Result 2019: The Calcutta University results are for the Honours/General/Major programme, examinations for which were conducted recently under the CBCS system

India fails to feature in the top 300 World University Rankings 2020 list

It's the 1st time since 2012 that India didn't feature in the list

Kota University releases BA 1st year result 2019 on uok.ac.in; check score

Students can also visit univexam.org/uok to check Kota University Result 2019

From mid-2021, PhD a must for university asst professors: Prakash Javadekar

The Union government has made a doctoral degree mandatory for direct recruitment of assistant professors in all universities from July 2021.The existing University Grants Commission rules allow varsities to hire postgraduates who have cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET). The government has not changed the recruitment criteria for colleges at the entry level of lecturer. They may, for this post, either hire PhDs or postgraduates who have cleared the NET. However, for a college lecturer to apply for the next higher position, of assistant professor, a PhD degree will be necessary from July 2021. The country has 864 universities, 40,026 colleges and 11,669 standalone institutions of higher education.Prakash Javadekar, Union minister for human resource development, Indians with a PhD degree from the top 500 world universities, as measured by Quacquarelli Symonds, Times Higher Education or the Academic Ranking of World Universities, would also be eligible for direct recruitment at .

Indian universities should aspire to be among top 100: PM Narendra Modi

There is no Indian university among the world's top 100 universities, Modi said, adding, we feel ashamed

Global online university community Etabu.com goes live in India

The website connects the students to digital world of many pages of study material, tutorials, notes and multi-media content