Delhi University undergraduate courses

Delhi University's undergraduate courses might bear a ocean modification from 2013. Another year are going to be added to the prevailing three-year undergraduate courses - BA, BCom and BSc - and therefore the courses are going to be restructured to supply an exit choice midway, with another to rejoin later and complete the course.

Students will have the choice of knocking off one or 2 papers and instead use credits earned through sports or different extracurricular activities to end the courses. what is additional, students will earn 3 degrees through this four-year programme.

"We propose to launch the four-year courses from the 2013-14 session. it'll be a transdisciplinary course with multiple exit choices. As we have a tendency to are simultaneously revamping our open learning system, undergraduate students at faculties are going to be allowed to complete a semester through open learning and therefore the credits are going to be counted," said DU vice-chancellor Dinesh Singh.

consistent with DU administration, the blueprint is prepared and consultations with academics and different stakeholders are on. The administration additionally plans to bring the proposal up for discussion at a teachers' congress in June. "After taking teachers' input, the set up are going to be place up at a teachers' congress. Finally, the proposal are going to be placed before the educational and government councils of DU," said Singh.

The programme can supply students 2 exit choices throughout the course - at the top of second and third years. If a student decides to opt out of the course when completion of the primary 2 years, he/she can get an associate degree. At the top of third year, the scholar will opt out with a bachelor's degree. If the scholar completes four years, an honours degree are going to be awarded.

"Even the two-year associate degree are going to be embedded with enough coaching to enable a student to become an elementary teacher. Students who opt out when finishing second and third years can get ten years to come and complete the course," said Singh.

"In future, we might prefer to supply credits to students travelling within the Gyan Uday specific and doing comes," Singh added.

Colour stone grading Course inManipal Institute of Jewellery Management

A coloured-stone grading course was organized in Manipal Institute of Jewellery Management by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), world's foremost authority on diamonds and colour stones from April 9 to 11. Arjun Pansari, instructor from GIA was the resource person for the workshop. 

"Training in this course, accepted internationally, will provide competitive edge to our students in jewellery industry," said MIJM director, Col (retd) M M Shanbhag. 

"This course will provide opportunities for further specialization in gemology," he added. 

Pre University students fear valuation quality

The government and PU lecturers are on a collision course with both refusing to retreat from the brink on Friday, the day one of the strike. The evaluation of II PU answer scripts came to a standstill, but the striking lecturers expressed confidence that this won't derail the PU results schedule. 

Primary and secondary education minister Visveswara Hegde Kageri warned the teachers of punitive action if they didn't call off the boycott by Saturday. Students are worried about the quality of evaluation if the teachers rush through the process later. 

Teachers allay fears of delay in results 

The PU lecturers from across the state who have descended on the Freedom Park said they will call off their strike if the government passes an order stating it will implement the Kumar Naik committee's report. "Or else, we'll carry on our strike till April 19 when we meet the chief minister to resolve the issue," said Shakil Ahmed, secretary , Karnataka State PU Lecturers' Association. 

Shakil allayed fears of a delay in declaring the results. He said, "Even if the government accepts our demands on April 19 , the results won't be delayed. Last year, a four-day strike didn't impact the results or the quality of valuation." 

The results must come before the CET, and the students are jittery. Akshaya Prabhakaran of Mount Carmel College said her batch is unlucky: first, the question paper leak, now the valuation boycott. "Our worry is valuation might be done in a hurry to make up for the loss of time. Our appeal to lecturers: give us what we deserve, our future is at stake." 

With the strike looks set to drag on and the weekend setting in, outstation lecturers working out of Bangalore's 17 centres are heading home. Irshad Ahmed Palega, from Belgaum , said, "Since the strike is indefinite, we've packed our bags to return home." 

Universities in India

Universities in India can be classified into different categories, such as universities Central State University, believes the universities, private universities, agricultural universities, the National Institutes of importance and open universities.

These universities in India can play an important role not only for the survival of a just and dynamic, but also in search of its rich democratic tradition. In fact, some universities in India play a great job of producing enlightened citizens of the nation. But with the growth of the economy, Indian universities and other higher education institutions have faced a new challenge.

This is to provide qualified and competent professionals for the growing industries and corporate houses. In India is already very high in terms of population, the need of the hour is to transform unproductive resource rights in productive human capital. This new call for quality manufacturing and most relevant education accessible to much of the population and the huge investments in the education sector.

Recognizing the urgent need to reorganize the system of higher education in the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development proposes the creation of eight new Indian Institutes of Technology, seven Indian Institutes of Management and thirty 30 universities in the central part of the 11 th plan . Out five years of the 30 Central Universities, 14 universities are world class.

Some of the institutes associated with universities in India -

University Grants Commission of India
The University Grants Commission of India is a central government agency that provides support for the government, universities and colleges with funds. The University Grants Commission of India or UGC provides recognition to universities in India. The office of the UGC is headquartered in New Delhi. The regional office is located in the south of Hyderabad. UGC NET also conducts examinations. This review is for the recruitment of teachers in colleges and universities.

All India Council for Technical Education
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is an organization involved in systematic planning and development system organized technical education in the country. Currently, a total of 1,346 engineering colleges in India, which were approved by the All India Council for Technical Education. The seat is AICTE Indira Gandhi Sports Complex, Indraprastha Estate, New Delhi.

National Assessment and Accreditation Council
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) is an organization that provides recognition to universities. The CCNA is an autonomous organization that is funded by the Scholarship Committee of the University of Government of India, Bangalore.

Association of Indian Universities
The Association of Indian Universities (AIU) is an organization based in New Delhi. The organization is involved in the evaluation of courses and the standard program and liaison between the universities of India and the government.