Folklore varsity campus near Shiggaon, Haveri Haveri: A controversy has erupted at Karnataka Folklore University in Gotagodi, Shiggaon taluk, after the higher education department sought a report on whether rules were followed in the PhD admission process for the 2025-26 academic year.The govt objected to the PhD entrance examination being scheduled with just four days…
Bhubaneswar: The state govt has significantly liberalised the policy for establishment of self-financing degree and professional colleges by doing away with separate state-prescribed infrastructure and faculty requirements and further easing the financial obligations for promoters.The higher education department said the move is aimed at facilitating the setting up of higher educational institutions and aligning the…
Patna: The fate of a draft statute proposing sweeping changes to the appointment of assistant professors in Bihar universities hangs in the balance as governor-cum-chancellor of universities, Syed Ata Hasnain, seeks a fresh review of the selection process through a committee of experts.Academics said several provisions in the draft statute, which has already been circulated…
New Delhi: St Stephen’s College has absorbed its outgoing principal, John Varghese — at the centre of an ongoing legal battle with its affiliating institution, Delhi University, over his second-term extension — as a professor in its English department.Varghese has been directly appointed as professor without facing any selection committee and despite there being no…
Gurgaon: Months after the Haryana Public Service Commission’s (HPSC) English assistant professor recruitment sparked controversy over an unusually low pass percentage, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has set aside the recruitment process for 613 posts of assistant professor (college cadre) in English, holding that the state diluted mandatory University Grants Commission (UGC) norms while…
