Rajendra Prasad Singh is New Chairman of IIT Kharagpur Board of Governors
Former Chairman and Managing Director of Power Grid Corporation Rajendra Prasad Singh was appointed as the new Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Kharagpur.
Apart from being the former Chairman and Managing Director of Power Grid Corporation and Independent Director of Azzure Power Global Ltd, Singh had been the Chairman of the Board for NIT Patna for a period of three years from 2009-2012.
Singh succeeded Sanjiv Goenka, as the new Chairman, IIT Kharagpur. A corporate bigwig Goenka is the founder and chairman of RPSG Group.
Jul 27, 2022
Lucknow University Becomes First UP Educational Institute to Get NAAC A++ Rating
In a big achievement for the 102-year-old Lucknow University, it received an A++ rating from NAAC under the direction of Governor Anandiben Patel, Chancellor of State Universities of Uttar Pradesh.
In doing so, the university became the first educational institute in Uttar Pradesh to get a NAAC A rating.
A NAAC A++ rating is the highest rating that can be conferred upon a university. The university was evaluated on various points by NAAC and accredited with a CGPA of 3.55 on a seven point scale.
The NAAC rating will now stand for a period of five years from July 26, 2022, onwards after which it will need to be re-evaluated again.
Jul 26, 2022
International Conference on Chemistry and Applications of Soft Materials
The CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, hosted an International Conference on Chemistry and Applications of Soft Materials (CASM 2022) as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations to mark 75th year of Independence. Discussions on a variety of subjects, including self-assembly and supramolecular materials, soft material chemistry, physics, rheology, and photophysics, responsive and smart materials, gels, liquid crystals, polymers, macromolecules and framework materials, and functional nanomaterials, as well as soft material applications in electronics and energy, took place at the conference.
Around 300 delegates from within the country and abroad attended the conference. Renowned scientist T. Pradeep from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, inaugurated the event.
Jul 25, 2022
IIT-Madras in Talks to Set Up Campus in Tanzania
An offshore campus of IIT Madras in Tanzania is among the options on the government's table as it works on a plan to ensure the country's premier engineering institutes have a presence on the world map.
The recommendations made in a draft report prepared by a 16-member committee, headed by IIT Council standing committee chairperson Dr. K. Radhakrishnan, are acting as a possible roadmap for the expansion plans.
IIT Madras Director Prof V. Kamakoti said that apart from Tanzania and other African countries, the institute also received requests from Sri Lanka and Nepal for campuses to offer courses in emerging areas such as data sciences and artificial intelligence as well as energy systems.
Delhi University Likely to Start Certificate Course on Patent Laws
The Delhi University is planning to start a certificate course on patent laws to help students to make their research a "tangible" product and give them basic knowledge about filing for patents.
This would be the first time that such a course would be offered at the varsity.
Patent laws are taught as a part of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) paper at the Delhi University's Law Faculty, and some science courses in the varsity also include a chapter on the topic.
The varsity has constituted a committee for framing the syllabus and other modalities for a course on patent laws.
Bengaluru Gets India's 'First-of-its-kind' Brain Health Clinic
Karnataka Health Minister K. Sudhakar inaugurated India's first brain health clinic under the Karnataka Brain Health Initiative (Ka-BHI) at Jayanagar General Hospital.
Sudhakar said two more such centres will come up in Chikkaballapura and Kolar districts, in association with NIMHANS.
Cricketer and Karnataka Brain Health Initiative (Ka-Bhi) ambassador Robin Uthappa, who took part in the event, shared his struggle with mental health as a youngster.
WHO Declares Monkeypox a Global Emergency
The World Health Organisation declared the global monkeypox outbreak a 'public health emergency of international concern' (PHEIC), one step below that of a 'pandemic.'
A PHEIC, according to the WHO, constitutes an extraordinary event, which constitutes a public health risk to other States through the international spread, and which potentially requires a coordinated international response.
The latest decision followed a meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee to discuss the monkeypox outbreak in several countries. It is this Committee of the WHO that decides on the seriousness of a public health crisis.
UGC Reforms Distance Learning Guidelines to Intensify Foreign Students' Enrolment
The University Grants Commission (UGC) amended the Open and Distance Learning Programmes and Online Programme guidelines, paving way for foreign students to enrol at Indian universities with ease. This amendment would allow international students with expired passports to enrol at Indian universities through the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
Earlier, international students had to mandatorily produce their passport for identification to enrol themselves with any Indian university. As a result, many applications were rejected due to either non-submission of passports or submission of expired passport.
However, this amendment would only be applicable to those international students who enrol themselves on e-VidyaBharati Portal and are admitted through MEA. Such students will be exempted from the mandatory requirement of passport and can produce any 'national Identity with photograph' of their country for enrolment purposes.
Jul 22, 2022
India-UK Ink Agreement for Mutual Recognition of Educational Degrees
India and the United Kingdom inked a pact for mutual recognition of educational degrees of students of bachelor, masters and doctoral courses. Indian senior secondary school or pre-university certificates would also be considered for entry into UK's higher education institutions, enabling mobility of students.
Now onwards, UK degrees would be recognised as equivalent to Indian degrees. You can take a degree there (in the UK) and would be eligible for employment in India.
However, professional degrees such as medicine, pharmacy, engineering, architecture will not be covered under the pact.
Both sides also signed two memorandums of understandings (MoUs) on mutual recognition of educational qualifications, including maritime education and a framework agreement on healthcare workforce. These agreements are part of the commitments made by both parties under the Enhanced Trade Partnership (ETP) launched in May 2021.
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